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About clockswatches.com

This web site was started in 1997 and it holds information that we have found about various clock and watchmakers, and so far has 31,961 records in it's database. The information comes from listings published in books and trade directories that we have in our library, giving dates that makers are known to have been working. At the moment, the database includes 28,417 individual trade directory entries from 320 trade directories and more detailed biographies for 3544 makers and retailers.

The information is not necessarily all there is to know about the maker, but it is a digest of all we have found in our researches. 
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SAMPLE PAGE

Maker, A of Somewhere

(This is a sample page showing the sort of information available on this web site. The information shown here is fictitious. Some pages may only show a single date for a maker, and some pages may show considerably more than shown here.)

A Maker was born in 1796. He was a clock and watch maker working in Somewhere at from about 1833, at 20 Some Road from 1834-7, Some Street in 1841, back at 20 Some Road in 1848 and 1855 and 41 Some Road in 1864.

According to one source he married Ann, a local Somewhere girl in 1801, this means he married at the age of 5, and seems to have been working up until about 1864. A Maker was not born in Another Place but in Somewhere.

The 1841 census has him age 45 living at Some Street with Ann Maker, (70) and Ann (40). The 1851 census gives more details. Joseph (55) a watchmaker employing 2 men was living with his sister, Ann (50) plus a lodger and a servant. Going back to the 1841 returns it is fairly safe to assume that the younger Ann is sister, not wife, as mentioned in some books, and the older Ann was probably his mother.

They do not seem to appear in any later census returns.

 

Known Published Photos or articles

Clockmakers of somewhere, pp55 shows a longcase clock by this maker

 

Known Trade Directory listings from trade directories that we have currently catalogued

Name Address Town Comments Trade Directory
Maker, A Some Road Somewhere   1837 Pigots directory of Somewhere

Notes:
Due to the dynamic nature of the addition of Trade Directories to our library, these results may show additional dates to the text above.
Some maker's names may have a number after them, i.e. Doe, John(1). This means that the maker was listed at more than one address in a trade directory so we have highlighted this to show that the different addresses have been proved to be the same maker.
 

Sources (see Links page for details of places to obtain copies of the sources listed below)

Joe Blogs, Clockmakers of somewhere, Pub Pan publications 1980 ISBN 123232443
1848 Slaters Directory of Somewhere
1855 Kellys Directory of Somewhere
 

Photos




Photos by Tony Harrison-Smith
(photo ref:1277)
 

 

The above information and dates are correct to the best of our knowledge based on the current books etc in our library at the time this page was last written or amended. Please be aware that any dates given are not necessarily the start and finish dates of this maker, they are just the dates that it is likely that he was working based on the information we have found. These are taken from trade directories etc and it is quite possible that they were working for longer periods than shown above.