Yet another Staffordshire family founded on “blue-printed” ware is that of Ridgway. Ralph Ridgway was a master-potter at Chell, who failed in business in 1766, and departed with his family to Swansea, where the manufacture of porcelain was just commencing.[156] His younger son, Job (1759-1813), returned to the Potteries in 1781, and divided his time between acting as a Wesleyan missionary and work as a journeyman potter in Hanley.[157] There for some time he also manufactured lawn for the sieves used in sifting the clay slip, but this he gave up, on the strange ground that it led to bribery and drunkenness, and returned to his potter’s bench. At last, in 1792, he and his brother George started a factory of their own in Shelton, at the bottom of Albion Street, said to have been formerly that of Warner Edwards.[158] It has been the “Bell Works,” from the Blue Bell Inn which stood opposite. Of course they made “blue printed,” and prospered. In 1802 Job left his brother, and built the well-known house and works at Cauldon Place on the Cauldon canal, now occupied by the porcelain works of Brown, Westhead, Moore & Co.[159] At Cauldon Place the firm, “Job Ridgway & Sons,” began in 1808 to make china. Here, too, Job died in 1813, and was succeeded by his son John Ridgway, under whom the Cauldon Place china achieved so great renown. His other son William went back to the Bell Works, and, adding factory to factory, soon became by far the most important potter in Hanley. [Illustration: JOB RIDGWAY 1759-1813 _Photo by H. J. Gover & Co., Hanley_] Job Ridgway married the sister of Elijah Meyer, and made the fortune of his family. But his potting was not so interesting as his religious zeal, so typical of the sentiments of the Potteries at this time; and as the Methodist revival of the last quarter of the eighteenth century had a profound effect upon the habits of the pottery people, and permanently changed their affections from cock-fighting to psalm singing, it is worth while, even in a history of potting, to mention this side also of the work of Job Ridgway. He was “converted” while working at Leeds in 1781. When he came to his brother’s house in Hanley, there were only twenty-five Methodists in Hanley. He formed a congregation and opened their first chapel in 1784. No sooner was Methodism firmly established than he quarrelled with these confining bonds also, and, in 1797, he did more than any other layman to establish the Methodist New Connexion.[160] Bethesda Chapel was built in the following year, and by 1802 Burslem and Lane End also had chapels of this new itinerant society. By 1843 there were five chapels of this denomination in Hanley alone. If you worked for Job Ridgway, you had to attend his chapel also.