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- Isaac Hadwen
- Also known as
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Isaac Hadwen
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primary name: Hadwen, Isaac
- Details
- individual; clockmaker/watchmaker; English; Male
- Life dates
- 1687-1737
- Address
- Kendall
- Biography
- The clock was made and retailed by Isaac Hadwen (I) of Kendal(l), Westmoreland, England, working 1722-1737.
Isaac Hadwen (I) (sometimes spelt 'Hadwin') was born 1687 at Burton (near Warton), Lancashire into a Quaker family. He was also was a Quaker and this heavily influenced his life.
His father was Thomas Hadwen of Sedbergh, Westmoreland; His mother was Eleanor Sands, Thomas's second wife. Isaac was orphaned at the age of 10.
He was probably apprenticed, about 1701-1708, to John Ogden of Askrigg, Yorkshire, or possibly to his brother-in-law Thomas Savage of Clifton, Westmoreland.
He married Sarah Moore of Clapham, Yorkshire in 1714.
Clocks by Isaac (I), mostly 30 hour, Working in Sedbergh 1714-1722 are signed at Sedbergh, Kendal, and Gaille.
He made two trips to America, the first in 1718-19.
Working in Kendal 1722-1737.
In 1727 Isaac took an apprentice Isaac Bispham, who later married his eldest daughter Eleanor.
In his will, dated 16 March 1736/7, Isaac describes himself as of 'Over Gail (Gale, Gaille, Gayle) in the parish of Tunstall, Lancashire', an estate probably left by John Moore to Isaac's wife Sarah.
In 1737 Isaac (I) made his second trip to America, where he suddenly died of fever in Pennsylvania on 26 September 1737.
Some time after his death, his wife Sarah was carrying on a business as 'Sarah Hadwen of Liverpool, Watchmaker'.
Isaac (I)'s son, Isaac Hadwen (II), was born in 1723, at Kendal, Westmoreland. Isaac (II) was working in Liverpool, Lancashire c.1737; and died in 1767.
His grandson, Isaac Hadwen (III), was born in 1753 and was apprenticed to Stephen Nelson of Ormskirk, Lancashire
- Bibliography
- Loomes, Brian, Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World, N.A.G. Press / Robert Hale Ltd, London 2006, page 335.
The work and life of Isaac Hadwen are discussed in 'Brass Dial Clocks', by Brian Loomes, Antiques Collectors' Club Ltd, Woodbridge, 1998, pages 324, and 418-423.
There are at least three articles on the Hadwen of Kendall and the Hadwen dynasty of clockmakers, by Brian Loomes published in 'Clocks’ magazine, Nexus Special Interests Ltd, Swanley, Kent
a) ‘Isaac Hadwen of Kendal and Sedbergh‘, Isaac Vol. 4
Feb. page 31 and Mar. page 29
b) 'The Hadwen Family Continued', Vol. 8 April 1986 pp. 37-40
c)'Isaac Hadwen Revisited', Feb.2013, pp.11-16.