J.Bucknell Crediton clockmaker

[mispeltyoof]

Anyone got any information about J.Bucknell who was a clockmaker around 1720 in Crediton Devon?
There was a James who was a member of a clockmaking family who married in 1765 but I need to know if his father was also a clockmaker and what his name was.

[Colin Moretti]

You might find this leaflet from the Guildhall Library (London) helpful:
http://213.86.34.248/NR/rdonlyres/2521D6AF-8045-40A9-884D-A2C8779BFEC7/0/LH_CL_clockwatch.pdf
It's mainly concerned with the records held there but there are references to printed works that you could get through your local library.

Good luck

Colin

[Raphael]

Anyone got any information about J.Bucknell who was a clockmaker around 1720 in Crediton Devon?
There was a James who was a member of a clockmaking family who married in 1765 but I need to know if his father was also a clockmaker and what his name was.

Hello mispeltyoof,
I have already tried to answer this I think on another site or post.but yours is probably earlier relatives. ???
1871, Aldred Bucknell was in London, probably serving his apprenticeship as a watchmaker and jeweller. By the mid 1870s, Aldred Bucknell was in Midhurst, Sussex. Aldred Holcombe Bucknell married Sarah Elizabeth Eldridge (born c1853, Boxgrove, Sussex) in Midhurst during the 3rd Quarter of 1876. At the end of 1877, Aldred's wife gave birth to a son named Aldred Holcombe Bucknell after his father. [ Aldred Holcombe Bucknell junior's birth was registered in Midhurst duting the 4th Quarter of 1877]. Aldred Bucknell established a watchmaking business in North Street, Midhurst. By 1878, Aldred Holcombe Bucknell was listed as a watchmaker and photographer at North Street, Midhurst, in Kelly's Post Office Directory of Sussex.
By the Spring of 1880, Aldred Bucknell had left Midhurst and had set himself up as a jeweller and watchmaker in Pulborough, Sussex. A second son, Harry Noel Bucknell, was born in Pulborough during the 2nd quarter of 1880. After a brief period in Pulborough, Aldred Bucknell and his family moved to London, where Sarah Bucknell gave birth to two more sons - Edwin James Bucknell (born 1881) and Robert Bucknell (born c1884). At the time of the 1901 census, Aldred Holcombe senior, now aged 55, was living with his wife and children in Shoreditch, where he was working as a jeweller.

But I suspect these are his relatives, and may be later than you require.

Maybe this helps

Sorry if this is not applicable to your research although they are definately in the same business, but the site I got the details from mentioned Crediton.
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Raphael
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