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The following details were supplied to us but our reference books no record of any makers with this name. Ancestry records several people with this name- One born in 1695, another born in 1722, then one who lived from 1748 till 1830 and the last one who lived between 1859 and 1943 but it does not give any occupations.Does anyone have any information?
Recently I have discovered from a relative that a clock shop in Haslemere, Surrey has recently purchased a grandfather clock that has "Thomas Larby" on the face. When it was opened it was seen to have been mended in 1730.
There was a Thomas Larby was born in Haslemere 16 October 1695, or it could be possible that maybe it could have been made by an earlier Thomas Larby as there were several Larby’s in the area.
Thomas Larby was married to Sarah Quennell whose ancestors had once owned the Lythe Hill Hotel which has many clocks featured.
Note: Due to the dynamic nature of the addition of Trade Directories to our library, these results may show additional dates to the text above.
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e-mail from Monique Jones
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This web site, was run by Rosemary Harrison-Smith with the help of Tony Harrison-Smith FBHI, was started in 1997 and it held information that we have found about various clock and watchmakers, and has 35,758 records in its database. The information comes from listings published in books and trade directories that we had in our library, giving dates that makers are known to have been working. The database includes 31,947 individual trade directory entries from 363 trade directories and more detailed biographies for 4276 makers and retailers.
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