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As mentioned in the introduction, our clock comes from my wife's family. She writes: "I remember seeing the clock on a quarter-turn landing on the stairs at my grandmother's house in Wallsend, Newcastle-on-Tyne. It was not running then, and my father said it was not running when he was a child. We have no records or stories of the clock's origins, but the most likely source is my grandmother's family from Whitby in Yorkshire. My grandmother, Elizabeth Mary Donkin, was born in Hartlepool, Durham in 1893, daughter of Thomas Banks Donkin, a journeyman boat builder. He was born in 1861 in Aislaby, a village outside Whitby, Yorkshire. His parents were Thomas Donkin, a merchant seaman, and Elizabeth (nee Banks). Elizabeth was the daughter of Thomas Banks (formerly Binks) and Mary (nee Corner). In the 1860's Elizabeth inherited most of her parents' household furniture and effects and the clock could well have been among them. I still have more research to do but it is clear from census and other information that members of the Banks/Binks and Donkin families were living in and around Whitby, in the early 1800's, i.e. at the time that John Bancroft was making his clocks some 20 miles away at Scarborough." |
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Links to other pages about our Bancroft clock: The Clock as an Heirloom |
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