1687-08-22 | b. Burton, Westmorland | TNA: RG 6/1016, /1616A |
1701/1708 | probably apprenticed to John Ogden of Askrigg, Yorkshire(, or possibly to his brother-in-law Thomas Savage of Clifton, Westmoreland) | British Museum; Tim Marshall, 'Quaker Clockmakers', 2017 |
1714-07-08 | clockmaker, of Side, Sedbergh, Yorkshire; m. Sarah Moore (1690 – ?, d. of John and Sarah Moore, of Eldroth, Clapham, Yorkshire), at Settle fmh, Giggleswick, Yorkshire | TNA: RG 6/1116 |
1714/1722 | clocks by him, mostly 30 hour, working in Sedbergh, are signed at Sedbergh, Kendal, and Gaille | British Museum |
Children: | Thomas (1715–1744), Eleanor (1716 – ?), Sarah (1720–1722), all b. Sedbergh MM; John (1722–1723), Isaac (1723–1767), Joseph (1725–1807), Benjamin (1727 – after 1751), and Ann (1728–1806), all b. Kendal MM | RG 6/1005, /1246, /1285, /1420, /1543, /1564, /1616A; Brian Loomes (2013) 'Isaac Hadwen's time in Sedbergh'; "England Marriages, 1538–1973," database, FamilySearch: 10 February 2018, Benjamin Hadwen and Mariana Bailif, 15 Aug 1751, citing Kendal, Westmoreland, reference yrs 1740-1759, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City, FHL microfilm 97,375 |
1718/19 | made the first of two trips to America | British Museum |
1722/1737 | working in Kendal | |
1727 | took an apprentice Isaac Bispham, who later married his eldest daughter Eleanor | |
1729 | clockmaker, of Kirby, Westmorland; took an apprentice William Clark, of Lambrigg | country apprentices |
1733-04-11 | clockmaker, of Kendal; took on Fryer Ryder, of Manchester, as an apprentice | Register of Duties Paid for Apprentices' Indentures |
1736/7-03-16 | of "Over Gail (Gale, Gaille, Gayle) in the parish of Tunstall, Lancashire", an estate probably left by John Moore to Isaac's wife Sarah | will, cited at British Museum |
1737-03-24 | clockmaker, of Over Gail Tunstall; will proved in the Deanery of Lonsdale, Archdeaconry of Richmond | Lancashire wills and probate |
1737-07-29 | of Gaile; d. of a sudden fever, on a visit in Chester, Delaware (his second visit to America) | RG 6/1116; Loomes (2013); British Museum |
1737-07-30 | bur. | RG 6/1116 |
a much fuller biography, with details (and photos) of his clocks, is to be found in Brian Loomes (2013) 'Isaac Hadwen's time in Sedbergh', first published in Clocks Magazine; a full bibliography is to be found at British Museum |
1689/90-02-19 | b. Burton in Kendall, Westmorland | TNA: RG 6/1016, /1616A |
1689/90-02-22 | bur. Hilderstone, Lancashire | TNA: RG 6/1004, /1016, /1616A |
1689/90-02-19 | b. Burton, Westmorland | TNA: RG 6/1016, /1616A |
1712-09-18 | m. Jonah Boak (? – 1766), at Sedbergh, Yorkshire | TNA: RG 6/1118, /1246 |
Children: | John (cal 1710 – 1801), Hannah (? – 1743), and Elizabeth (? – 1760) | RG 6/1118, /1143, /1246, /1282; "England Deaths and Burials, 1538–1991," database, FamilySearch: 10 February 2018, Elizabeth Stewardson, burial 09 Mar 1760, citing Shap, Westmoreland, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City, FHL microfilm 1,471,809 |
1750-01-11 | bur. Newbyhead fbg, Westmorland | RG 6/1118, /1246 |
1693-05-21 | b. Frostraw, Westmorland | TNA: RG 6/1246 |
1715-05-03 | of Side, Sedbergh, Yorkshire; m. Richard Kilner (? – 1747, weaver, of Stramongate, in Kirby Kendal, Westmorland, son of Lawrence and Elizabeth Kilner), at Brigflats fmh, Sedbergh | TNA: RG 6/1235, /1246, /1543 |
Children: | Thomas (1715 – ?), Richard (1717–1717), Hannah (1720 – ?), John (1722 – ?), Elizabeth (1724–1729), Eleanor (1729–1790), and Isaac (1730–1787), all b. Kendal | RG 6/1068, /1075, /1078, /1246, /1543 |
1758-06-11 | of Kendal; bur. Kendal MM | RG 6/1246, /1543 |
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