Three other potters on the 1787 list deserve special mention: John, Ralph and Enoch Wood. They all came of one still celebrated potting family. Ralph Wood, miller, of Burslem, was their common ancestor. His eldest son, Ralph, was a modeller of distinction, and about 1754 started a works at Burslem, where he, and his son Ralph after him, made those quaint Staffordshire figures now in such demand. They are usually decorated with coloured tortoiseshell glaze, applied with a brush, and have a singularly decorative effect. Ralph Wood, the first figure maker of the name, married the sister of that Aaron Wedgwood who had once made china at Longton Hall. He died in 1772, and was succeeded in his work by his sons John and Ralph.[133] John Wood soon left his brother, and began, in 1782,[134] to pot at Brownhills. Ralph kept to figures, and adopted the enamel process of decoration for some of his busts and figures. Other makers who were prolific in this style of figure decoration were John Walton of Burslem (1800-40), Robert Garner of Lane End, _c._ 1786, son of that Robert Garner of the Foley Works who married Margaret Astbury, Ralph Salt of Hanley (1812-46), Lakin and Poole of Hanley (1770-94).[135] Meanwhile the eldest son, John Wood, was making ordinary earthenware at Brownhills. This John Wood was murdered in 1797 by Dr Oliver of Burslem, a rejected suitor of his daughter.[136] His son married the heiress of John Wedgwood of Bignal End, with whom he acquired a large fortune.[137] He removed the factory from Brownhills to Tunstall, where he erected the Woodlands Works in 1831-5.[138] A third John Wedg Wood of Brownhills carried on these pot works in Tunstall in partnership with Mr Edward Challenor. He died in 1857, and was succeeded at the Woodlands Works by his brother Edmund Thomas Wedg Wood. This factory was in 1887 sold to Mr W. H. Grindley.[139] Ralph Wood, the miller, had another son—that Aaron Wood who made for himself so great a reputation as a block cutter when block moulds were first introduced and the salt glaze was at the height of its glory. Aaron Wood worked for Dr Thomas Wedgwood, Thomas Mitchell of the Hill Top Works, Burslem, and for Whieldon of Fenton. His eldest son, William, was apprenticed to Josiah Wedgwood in 1762, and worked with him, first at the Burslem “useful” works, and afterwards at Etruria, all his life long. Most of the Queen’s Ware articles made by Wedgwood are said to be from block moulds of his carving.[140]