Saw-Making, like Wild Camping, leaves no trace

. . . . this above image is of "the best address in Birmingham" - Square . . . later known as: Old Square; demolished piecemeal in Victorian times; now destroyed.

There is barely any record of the saw-manufacturer (& saw-manufacturer's son-in-law); successful enough to have lived in the delightfully posh #8 Square - one of the 16 original Queen Anne houses built in 1713 - for around a decade up to 1774, with adjacent workshops behind at #1 Lichfield Street.

. . . more to the point; I do not know of the survival of a single saw bearing his name - seen below in Sketchley's Birmingham Directory of 1767:

 

Hi Shoarthing, not sure if this is relevant or of any use but I stumbled across this online !

 

Bruce1 - Hi - well found . . . . the Andertons are quite a tricky family to untangle; the above George Anderton (engraver) deffo had a son Richard (cutler), who - very profitably, & by licence - married the heiress Elizabeth Dalloway (of the edge-tool & saw-making family) in 1750.

Eventual-saw-maker George Anderton married - very profitably, & by licence (dated 1753) - the heiress Mary Loome (of the saw-making family) in 1752 . . . . . it seems likely - but not certain - that these unblushing bridegrooms were brothers.

To add to the fun; George Anderton (engraver) appeared to be born in 1716 as the son of George Anderton (cutler); and the surviving son of George Anderton (saw-maker) was named . . . . George Anderton.