Hi List, Thank you to Karen for volunteering to administer WEEKS-L. I hope we will all be good (using meaningful Subjects, keeping on topic, etc.) and not cause her any problems. Thomas Bell WEEKS, my GGG Grandfather, was born in about 1813 in Shoreditch, London, England. He was married to Charlotte MOLESWORTH in 1837 in Walsall, Staffordshire, England. According to the marriage certificate his father was Thomas WEEKS, Watchmaker. When Thomas Bell WEEKS was married his occupation was Harness Maker and when his daughter (Ada Fanny WEEKS) was married in 1877 his occupation was Leather Case Manufacturer. The following Thomas WEEKS are listed as watch and clock makers: Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World. Vol.1 by G.H Baillie. WEEKES Thomas. London. CC.1654-7 d.an.1688 WEEKES Thomas, son. London. CC.1688-1710 WEEKES Thomas, son. London. a.1703 WEEKS Thomas. London. 1820 Watch and Clockmakers of the world Vol.2 by Brian Loomes. Published by N.A.G. Press. WEEK(E)S Thomas. Wednesbury. 1835-42 WEEK(E)S Thomas. Derby. 1849 a apprentice or apprenticed an ante; before CC Clockmakers Company d. died The Thomas WEEKSes of London, Wednesbury and Derby could be the same person. I have a couple of WEEKS mentioned in 1820 1820 Post Office London Directory WEEKS Thomas, Museum, 4 Tichborne Street, Piccadilly. WEEKS John, Clock-case-maker. Great Sutton Street, Clerkenwell 1820 Robsons London Directory WEEKS Thomas, Royal Mechl. Museum, 3 Tichborne Street, Piccadilly. WEEKS John, Clock case maker. 23 Great Sutton Street, Clerkenwell The Museum is very interesting, it is mentioned in The Shows of London by Richard Altick (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1978 ISBN: 0674807316 Pages 350-352.) The book says "Opened 'Mechanical Museum' in 1803 at 3 Tichborne, Haymarket.", "Thomas WEEKS was seventy-six in 1819. He died in 1834." "When WEEKS last surviving son died in 1864,..." This makes Thomas WEEKS of the Museum 70 in 1813 when Thomas Bell WEEKS was born, so unlikely to be his father. I think that Thomas WEEKS the Watchmaker could be the son of either Thomas WEEKS of the Museum or John WEEKS the Clock case maker. Alternatively Thomas WEEKS the Watchmaker and John WEEKS the Clock case maker could be brothers. 3 Tichborne Street, Piccadilly would have been on the site of the London Pavilion (built in 1859) and the Trocadero Restaurant (1896) now part of the Trocadero Centre < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trocadero_Centre >. It would be wonderful to connect Thomas Bell WEEKS to Thomas WEEKS of the Museum, but I don't want to jump to conclusions. I did find a Thomas WEEKS, watchmaker at The Proceedings of the Old Bailey London web page < www.oldbaileyonline.org >. The entry at < http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/html_units/1810s/t18180401-83.html > says "THOMAS WEEKS. I am a watch-maker. I searched the prisoner's lodgings, and found the cloth in her bed. She said it was only a drunken frolic. (Property produced and sworn to.)" It looks like the right area and time for Thomas Bell WEEKS's father. If anyone has further information on this part of my family tree or any watch or clock making WEEKSes, please do let me know. Regards Elmo. -- --Keith Elmo ELDRIDGE Elmo@aphelia.co.uk --Buxworth, High Peak, Derbyshire, England --O.B.L.A.T.H, B.A.I.L.E.Y, O.D.D.Y, W.E.E.K.S in London, England --'Insanity is hereditary, you get it from your children'