Gilks watch - case
Photograph by kind permission of Anthonie Stilgoe whose ancestor Zachary Stilgoe's intials are on the watch casing together with the year 1742. This might just be ZS recording his ownership then rather than date of the watch as 1742 is engraved on various other belongings of ZS.
More about the Stilgoe family can be read in Chaper 5 - The Stilgoes - of Mary Vane Turner's book - <a href="http://www.deddington.org.uk/history/publishedhistories/mvt/5.deddingtonfolk">'The Story of Deddington'</a>by clicking on the title
More about the Stilgoe family can be read in Chaper 5 - The Stilgoes - of Mary Vane Turner's book - <a href="http://www.deddington.org.uk/history/publishedhistories/mvt/5.deddingtonfolk">'The Story of Deddington'</a>by clicking on the title