Makers Directory

This page gives a comprehensive list of Bolton’s known Clock and Watch makers. Listed alphabetically (with their known working years) it covers Little Bolton, Great Bolton, Halliwell, Astley Bridge, and the other townships comprising the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton. We also cover Bolton names from further afield such as Horwich, where their trade mark was ‘Bolton’. Where the name is followed by ‘of Little Bolton‘ or ‘of Great Bolton‘ this is the known trade mark used on their work.

Please click the link to go to the dedicated biography page for each maker.

Abel, Edward – (1816 – 1841)

Agar, John of Bolton – (1853 – 1915) 

Agar, John – (1901) 

Agar, Mary – (1858-61)

Agar, William  – (1857 – 1861)

Agar, William & Co of Bolton – (1857 – 1861)

Ainsworth, J.M. (1857)

Anderton, John – (1841)

Arkinsall, J – (1889 – 1900)

Ashall, Charles  – (1848 – 1881) 

Ashall, John – (1828 – 1834)

Ashall, William of Bolton – (1836 – 1853)

Aspinall, Benjamin of Bolton – (1895)

Aspinall, James – (1712)

Aspinall, William of Bolton – (1848 – 1861)

Atherton, Stanley 1960 – 2018)

Bamber, Samuel – (1858)

Banks, William – (1878 – 1911)

Barlow, J.T. – (1876 – 1877)

Barr, Thomas – (1790)

Barr, Thomas – (1840)

Barry, John – (1811 – 1841)

Barry, Thomas of Ormskirk (1788-1838)

Barry, Thomas of Bolton – (1816 – 1829)

Baynes, Richard of Bolton – (1855 – 1861) 

Batten, G – (1887)

Berrington, Bolton (1843-1851)

Berrington, James of Bolton-le-Moors – (1836 – 1841)

Berrington, John Johnson of Bolton-le-Moors – (1818 – 1851)

Berrington, Uriah (1808)

Berry, John – (1881)

Beswick, Thomas – (1881) 

Bevington, J (1814)

Bibby, Henry – (1858)

Binks, John (1857 – 1881)

Binks, Thomas of Bolton – (1876 – 1895)

Birckley, John Baptist of Bolton – (1881-1895)

Bolton, Watch Repairing Company – (1843 -1889) 

Booth, William Bruce(1873 – 1881)

Boyd, J & R

Bradberry, Matthew of Little Bolton – (1821 – 1825)

Bradbury, William of Bolton – (1895)

Bradshaw, Ellis (1654-1678)

Bradshaw, John (1824-1881)

Bradshaw, Thomas and William – (1855)

Bradshaw, W. 1858

Branton, J.F. – (1895)

Breeze, Richard Henry (1881 – 1901)

Bridge, Thomas, of Bolton (1707 – 1717)

Brierley, Thomas. Bolton

Brooks, B

Brown, Joseph

Brown, Michael

Brownbill, John

Burghart, Augustin (1834 – 1848)

Burnett, Thomas of Bolton – (1894 – 1895)

Butler, Jacob of Bolton-le-Moors – (1805 – 1818)

Butler, James of Bolton-le-Moors – (1760 – 1795)

Butler, James and Jacob 1785

Butler Bolton, Mrs. (1818-1824)

Carnes, John (1838)

Carr, T.

Callcott, James of Bolton

Catterall, Joseph. of Bolton – (1828)

Chadbond, James Henry (1881)

Chadwick, Edward

Chambers, Robert of Little Bolton – (1855)

Chambers, T

Child, Algernon Sidney (1868 – 1886)

Clough, John James of Bolton – (1895)

Clough, John of Bolton – (1895)

Cohen, David

Cranshaw, Esther of Bolton – (1887-1900)

Crinnell, John Westley

Crosland, W. Bolton

Daniels, John H. of Bolton – (1895)

Darby, William

Dawson, H.S. of Bolton – (1895)

Dearden, P

Dickinson

Dorer, Carl

Douglas, Robert (1775)

Duckworth Prestex (2021- )

Dunn, (early 19th C Watchmaker

English, David. (1864 – 1867)

English, Harriett (1819 – 1881)

Entwistle, Richard Holmes (1861)

Entwistle, William Maude (1881)

Fallows, John

Farnworth James

Farnworth, Randolph of Bolton – (1891 – 1913)

Farren, John

Fattorini, T Bolton & Skipton – (1903  – 1975)

Fisher, F

Fisher, James

Fletcher, John (1832 – 1880)

Foulkes, E.T.

Gilbert, Egerton C (1861 – 1898)

Giles, Albert Thomas (1881 – 1891) 

Greenhalgh, S

Greenough, Alfonza (1870 – 1891)

Greenough, George (1870 – 1891)

Greenough, Samuel, (1849 – 1891)

Greenough, S. & Sons of Bolton – (1870 – 1960’s)

Hall, George

Halliwell, Joseph of Bolton – (1895)

Hallsworth, Elisha of Bolton – (1895)

Hampson, Robert

Hampson, of Bolton (1780)

Harwood, John – (1929 – 1931)

Hayward, David – (1873)

Herman, Anthony (1841)

Herr, Joseph (1840 – 1861)

Hesketh, Samuel

Hewitt, M

Hodgkins, Henry P. of Bolton – (1895)

Hodson, George – (1753 – 1827)

Hodson, John (1666)

Hodson, William (1790 – 1793)

Holt, John B.

Hoyle, John

Hoyle, William (1824 – 1829)

Howarth, Elijah of Bolton – (1891-1922)

Hutchason, William. Bolton-le-Moors. ca.1820

Hutchinson, Henry. (1864)

Ironfield, John

Isherwood, Charlotte & Esther – (1861 – 1873)

Isherwood, Frank of Bolton – (1895)

Isherwood, James of Bolton – (1895)

Isherwood, John of Bolton (1847 – 1881)

Isherwood, John of Bolton (1851 – 1873)

Isherwood, William of Bolton (1858 – 1868)

Jackson, John of Bolton – (1895)

James, W.H. of Bolton – (1895)

John, James

Johnson & Co of Little Bolton (1824 -1825)

Johnson, John of Bolton – (1821-1822)

Jones, Laurence of Bolton – (1895)

Jones, William Stewart of Bolton – (1873 – 1895)

Keell, F. & Co. of Bolton – (1895)

Kerr, Joseph of Bolton – (1853-1855)

Kirkhall, Thomas of Bolton-le-Moors (1673)

Knowles, Thomas, Bolton (1778 – 1787)d.1787. W

Knowles, Andrew of Bolton (1725 – 1771)

Knowles and Bridge, Bolton (18th Century)

Lanzetter, David Leon (1911- 1963)

Lanzetter, Jacob Kofko (1902 – 1940)

Lanzetter, Saul (1911- 1988)

Lee, Henry of Bolton – (1843 -1853) 

Lee, Henry II – (1853 – 1881)

Lee, Henry III – (1871)

Lee, Henry & Son – (1853 – 1895).

Lee, James (1864) 

Lee, John (1782-1789)

Lee, William of Bolton – (1890 – 1915)

Lee, Thomas – (1868 – 1899)

Leigh, Thomas. Bolton. an.1781. Watch.

Lemon, Arthur (1830)

Lemon, Samuel (1832)

Lever, Henry (1794)

Levy, Josiah – 

Lister, Samuel (1770 – 1809)

Livesey, (1700)

Livesey, John (1730 – 1753)

Lloyd, Frederick of Bolton – (1895)

Lomas, Samuel (1736)

Lumb, Thomas Henry. of Bolton – (1867 – 1905)

Makin, George ( 1834 – 1881)

Manchester, Thomas of Bolton – (1853 – 1855)

Mather, Abel of Bolton – (1881 – 1905)

Mancor, James of Bolton – (1827 – 1855)

Marsh, William

Mather, Abel

McEvans, Edward (1855 – 1861)

Micht, Wallier(Unknown)

Monk, George (1868 – 1890)

Monk, John of Bolton – (1834 – 1866)

Monk, Samuel of Bolton (1834)

Monk Bros. of Bolton (1890)

Monk and Gilbert of Bolton (1868 – 1873)

Morris, Levy

Morris, Mary of Bolton (1824-1829)

Morris, Robert of Little Bolton – (1838 – 1843)

Morris, William – (1878 – 1891)

Moss, James

Mowcar, James of Bolton – (1828)

Norman, Robert

Norris, Carlton  – (1936)

Oldham, A & Son of Bolton – 

Osborne, Thomas (1665)

Parr, J. – Bolton (1800)

Partington, Thomas

Pendlebury, Bolton (1887)

Pilkington, Joseph (1860 – 1881)

Pilkington, Thomas (1825 – 1881)

Pilkington, Samuel (1847 – 1881)

Preston, Bernard

Preston, James & Co (1869 – 1905)

Preston’s Of Bolton (1905 – 2016)

Proffitt, James Henry

Reddish, Joseph

Richards, Simon

Roch, Andrew (1816 -1841)

Rothwell, James (-1796)

Royle, John of Bolton – (1738 – 1740)

Ruff & Tritschler ( -1847)

Scrowcroft, Thomas

Shaw, John and Sons Bolton (1875 – 1884)

Shaw, Thomas

Sherwood, John

Simpson,

Sisson, Joshua Bolton – (1861- 1880)

Slater, George James

Sowerby, William

Smith, Henry (1902 -1911)

Smith, Jeremiah

Smith, Roger – (1995- )

Spencer, Eli of Bolton – (1820 – 1861)

Standfast, William

Standring, Jeremiah of Bolton – (1742-1782)

Swindells, John (1775)

Taylor, A. Bolton (1814-1824)

Taylor, Thomas

Thomas, T.J. Bolton

Thomas, John

Tritschler, John of Bolton – (1847-1872)

Tyson, Edward

Tyson, Thomas of Bolton – (1848-1861)

Waddington, James Henry

Walker, Michael of Bolton – (1805 – 1824)

Walker, Richard Henry ( 1883-1921)

Walker, William (1788-1851)

Walley, Johannes de Bolton

Walley, John de Bolton (-1730)

Walley, Robert (-1685)

Wallier, Micht of Bolton (Unknown)

Walsh, J. – Bolton

Warburton, Henry of Bolton – (1722 – 1774)

Watts, George

West, George of Bolton (1814-1881)

West, James of Bolton – (1828 – 1855)

West, William of Bolton – (1828)

Whaley, John of Bolton – (1722)

Whitefield, George

Wightman, James W

Wigston, William (1840-1904)

Wilde, Jos. –

Wilding, Thomas

Wilson, Thomas

Winder, Stephen

Wolfenden, Samuel. Bolton (1893 – 1898)

Wood, Edward

Wood, Robert of Bolton – (1853-1855)

Wood, William Junior of Bolton – (1841 -1855)

Wood, William of Bolton – (1853)

Wood, William – (1936)

Woodcock, James Henry (1875 – 1898)

Wright, William. A. (1864)

Young, George