« Reply #38 on: Thursday 15 January 09 22:21 GMT (UK) »
Hello all. I'm new on these pages. I am looking for watchmakers in Clerkenwell called Naylor. I have one in my Family. Born Clerkenwell 1820. I have nothing before him. I have no address for him either. He moved to Coventry.
Liverpool, Clerkenwell and Coventry were the three main watchmaking centres. I believe his family were from Liverpool as the name Naylor is grouped around there, moreover one of his daughters was born there. You can find out about this Naylor and the watchmakers of Coventry here...
http://www.thecoventrypages.net/section.asp?catid=87&docid=76
Hope to hear from somebody as I have hit a brickwall.
I too have watchmakers from Clerkenwell in the 1820 period named ATKINS. They seem to havebeen in Coventry at least 100 years before but three children who were born in Clerkenwell were baptised at St John, Coventry. I am interested in this link between Clerkenwell and Coventry and wonder whether it had to do with apprenticeship. If you note my Atkins especially Edward Atkins in your research please let me know. Thank you.
Warwicks: Whitehead, Allcock, Atkins, Bayley, Beacham, Bilson, Brooks, Cleaver,Farmer,Gilks, Lucas, Kendall, Oliver, Pickard, Shilton, Underhill.
Lincs: Kendall, Clark, Morley,Vincent, Withers, Barlow,Dawson.
Leics. Vincent
Notts: Bardill, Bugg, Morley, Winfield
Dublin: Brooks, Flood.