Some Irish Pocket Watches
One could be forgiven for thinking Delahoyde was a French Protestant Huguenot but his name appears in the Test Book of 1775-76 which contained the names of Catholics taking the Oath of Allegiance under the reign of George III. He was a Quarter Brother in 1771-2. He had been apprenticed to Robert Rose whose business at No 4, Cock Hill he had taken over . He was still there in 1784.[82] He later moved about a half mile or so to Dame Street where he spent over ten years at Number 81.
A rare survivor. A watch by William Knapp who was originally from Cork but who emigrated to Maryland in the United States in the middle of the eighteenth century. The outer case, by a curious coincidence, contains a watch-paper by another Irish emigrant clockmaker William McParlin originally from Loughbrickland, Co Down. The watch is now in the Maryland Historical Society.
Archibald Buchanan was a Dublin watchmaker who advertised in 1780 that he had worked twelve years with Messrs Mudge and Dutton, London and had been their foreman. He worked from 1780 to 1818 in College Green being succeeded by his son Thomas until around 1835. Archibald died in 1821. The case is by Arthur O’Neill. There were several members of this well-known family who were watch case makers.