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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I think these are the only bells he cast – none surviving now<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=1456 style='width:873.75pt;margin-left:-.75pt;border-collapse:collapse'><tr style='height:13.2pt'><td width=57 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:34.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>1802<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=177 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:106.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Boney, Caleb<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=105 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:63.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Padstow<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=217 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:130.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>St.Minver<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=188 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:113.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>St.Menefreda<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=82 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:49.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Cornwall<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=72 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:43.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Recast<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=55 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:33.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>4/5<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=68 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:41.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>31.25<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=68 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:41.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> 5-2-x<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=38 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:23.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>A<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=215 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:129.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Recast Warner 1875<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=115 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:68.75pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Dunkin<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:13.2pt'><td width=57 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:34.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>1810<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=177 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:106.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Boney, Caleb<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=105 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:63.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Padstow<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=217 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:130.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>Sennen<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=188 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:113.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>St.Sennen<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=82 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:49.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Cornwall<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=72 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:43.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>A<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=215 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:129.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Recast M&S 1889<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=115 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:68.75pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Dunkin, WBF<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:13.2pt'><td width=57 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:34.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>1810<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=177 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:106.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Boney, Caleb<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=105 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:63.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Padstow<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=217 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:130.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>Sennen<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=188 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:113.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>St.Sennen<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=82 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:49.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Cornwall<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=72 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:43.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Recast<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=55 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:33.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>3/3<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=68 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:41.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>33.75<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=68 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:41.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> 7-0-x<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=38 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:23.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>A<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=215 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:129.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Recast M&S 1889<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=115 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:68.75pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Dunkin, WBF<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:13.2pt'><td width=57 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:34.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>1814<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=177 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:106.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Boney, Caleb<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=105 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:63.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Padstow<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=217 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:130.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>Sancreed<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=188 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:113.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>St.Sancredus<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=82 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:49.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Cornwall<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=72 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:43.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Recast<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=55 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:33.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>2/3<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=68 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:41.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>32.5<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=68 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:41.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> 6-1-20<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=38 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:23.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>L<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=215 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:129.0pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Recast JT&Co 1882<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=115 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:68.75pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:13.2pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Dunkin, JT&Co<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>There is a reference to Boney in the book by Canon H. Miles Brown on Cornish clockmakers:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Moving further north in the county, we meet one of the most versatile and widely-known of Cornish clockmakers, Caleb Boney of Padstow. A published note at the time of his death in 1826 states that he was born at St Teath in 1747, and had little or no formal schooling. After teaching himself to read and write Boney found employment at Delabole. From that village he went off to Liskeard to work in a solicitor's office, but was frequently in trouble for reading in bed at night. Returning to North Cornwall he became a self-taught carpenter at Camelford, and then turned to clock and watch making at Padstow, which remained his residence until his death in November 1826. Two other Calebs, a son and a grandson, were in the same line of business. The former went bankrupt in 1828. / Several elaborate timepieces and astronomical clocks were made at Padstow by Boney, some of which are still extant and are described in the next chapter. There are many more ordinary clocks made by him in existence. Boney was also something of a musician, much in demand for tuning instruments, and from about 1806 he included bell-founding among his many pursuits. Dunkin, in Church Bells of Cornwall, 1878, traces four bells bearing the name Boney in Cornish towers - St Minver, Sancreed, and two at Sennen. He also appears in the Kenwyn, Truro, parish accounts as journeying from Padstow to see the bells there and to give an estimate for their new casting. At the age of 78 he rode the 41 miles to Hayle to tune bells recast at the Hayle Copperhouse Foundry for Helston Church. / After Boney's death the schoolmaster of St Merryn, one Chapman, blossomed into 'verse' in his praise - “Sun, moon and planets he did make, Like to Sir Isaac's notion, And neatly fixed them to his time, Which set them all in motion.” (H. Miles Brown, <i>Cornish Clocks and Clockmakers</i>, 3rd. ed. (1980) pp.31-2)<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>… and I found a newspaper reference to a clock he had made:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sale advertisement of the household furniture of Edward Arthur Esq, of Trevanson, near Wadebridge - mentions a Geographical and Astronomical Clock (by Caleb Boney) (<i>Royal Cornwall Gazette</i>, Saturday 23 September 1820)<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Otherwise Neal Dodge and Peter Rivet have already provided most of what is known (including some that’s new to me – so thanks)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#0070C0'>Chris Pickford</span></b><span style='color:#0070C0'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>E-mail: <a href="mailto:pickford5040@gmail.com"><span style='color:blue'>pickford5040@gmail.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Bell-historians [mailto:bell-historians-bounces@lists.ringingworld.co.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>georgebellringer@gmail.com<br><b>Sent:</b> 25 August 2020 16:25<br><b>To:</b> 'Bell Historians Mailing List'<br><b>Subject:</b> [Bell Historians] Caleb Boney<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Whilst going through some stuff I came across his name as a bell founder.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Does anyone know anything about him?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>George<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>