Grandfather Clock

[jfe...@cix.compulink.co.uk]

Well, actually it was my great-grandfather's clock, and I have just
inherited it. It's a long case clock made by Alexander Low of Dundee. The
case is mahogany, there is a small gold eagle at the "summit", and the
face has brightly coloured, "naive", labelled paintings of "Burns and
Highland Mary" at the arched top, and then four girls (presumably some of
his other girlfriends!) representing "Spring", "Summer", "Autumn" and
"Winter" at the corners. Great-grandad lived in Dundee from about 1881 to
his death in 1901. Can anyone hazard a guess at how old the clock is, and
has anyone heard of Alexander Low?

[Robert Feiertag]

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From "Old Scottish Clockmakers from 1453 to 1850" by John Smith, 1921,
republished 1975, p.227:

Low, Alexander. Edinburgh, 1799.
Low, Alexander. Errol, 1815-37. "Alexander Low, watchmaker in Errol,
served Heir General to his father, John Low, smith in Cupar-Angus, dated
17th November 1815. Recorded 1st December 1815." -- Services of Heirs.

Several other Low's and Lowe's are listed, but none from Dundee.

Bob, NAWCC #4746

[Andrewg]

I have found a Thomas Low - Dundee 1828 Listed in Loomes 'Watch and Clockmakers
of the World' Vol 2

I don't know if this helps at all - Your maker could be a relative?

Andrew Green

[pwcr...@gmail.com]

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Postby dognose >> Mon Aug 05, 2013 9:31 am

THOMAS LOW

204, Overgate, Dundee

Thomas Low is recorded as a Clock and Watchmaker located at 204, Overgate, Dundee, in 1837.

Source: Pigot and Co.'s National Commercial Directory of Scotland - James Pigot - 1837


WILLIAM MYLES, Accountant in Dundee, Trustee on the sequestrated estates of THOMAS LOW & SON, Jewellers and Watchmakers in Dundee, as a Company, and Thomas Low, Jeweller and Watchmaker in Dundee, and Isaac Glass Low, Jeweller and Watchmaker in Dundee, the Individual Partners of that Company, as such Partners, and as Individuals, hereby intimates that at the meeting of the Creditors held after the examination of the Bankrupts, the said Isaac Glass Low, as a Partner of the said Firm of Thomas Low & Son, and as an Individual, made offer of a composition of Four Shillings per pound on all debts due by the said Company of Thomas Low & Son at the date of the sequestration said composition being in full of all claims against the said Company of Thomas Low & Son, and against the said Isaac Glass Low, as a Partner of the said Company, and as an Individual, in respect of the said debts, or at the instance of Creditors of said Company ; and farther, made offer of a composition of Sixpence per pound on all debts (other than debts due by the Company as aforesaid) due by himself, the said Isaac Glass Low, as an Individual, at the date of the sequestration,-both of said compositions being payable two mouths after he should be finally discharged and re-invested in the Company and in his Individual estates ; that the said Isaac Glass Low also offered to pay or provide for the whole expenses of the sequestration and the Trustee's 'remuneration ; and that he farther offered George Samson, Junior, Merchant and Manufacturer in Dundee, as cautioner for payment of said compositions and expenses, and Trustee's remuneration ; and that the above offers were made upon the footing and condition that the estates of the said Thomas Low & Son, as a Company, and his the said Isaac Glass Low's estates, as an Individual, should be made over to him, and that he should receive and be invested in the same in lieu of the said compositions of Four Shillings per pound and Six-pence per pound; and the Creditors or Mandatories of Creditors present at the said meeting, having unanimously resolved that the said offers and security should be entertained for consideration, Notice is hereby given that another meeting of the Creditors of the said Thomas Low & Son, as a Company, and of the said Thomas Low and Isaac Glass Low, as Partners thereof, and as Individuals, will be held within the Royal Hotel in Dundee, on Wednesday the 19th day of July 1865, at 11 o'clock forenoon, for the purpose of finally deciding on the said offers and the security proposed.
Dundee, June 26, 1865. WM. MYLES, Trustee.

Source: The Edinburgh Gazette - 27th June 1865

Trev.


MCB noted the following:

THOMAS LOW
He was born in Dundee around 1801.
Edinburgh AO lists him as a watch and clockmaker and jeweller active in Dundee from 1829-61.
Page 601 of Jackson's book has him first mentioned in Dundee in 1836.
The 1841 Census shows him as a watch maker living in Reform Street, Dundee. No wife or children of his are recorded there.
In 1851 he was listed as a watch maker at 1 Bank Street living with his wife Jane and 8 children aged from 6 months to 15 years.
They had two more children by 1861 when he appears at Ogilvies Close Mills, 129 High Street, Dundee as a watch maker and jeweller employing 4 men and 2 boys. In 1861 he had also taken over the business of James Mills a Dundee clock and watch maker, goldsmith, jeweller and perfumer.
He had retired to Shore Terrace, Dundee by 1871.