A view of Cattaneo Silversmith(became Collingwood Jewellers) showing a man standing in the doorway, and a lady by the lamp post outside. 
Picture Stockton Archive
A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
A view of Cattaneo Silversmith(became Collingwood Jewellers) showing a man standing in the doorway, and a lady by the lamp post outside.
Picture Stockton Archive 
My Gx2 grandfather was Anthony Cattaneo who came to England from Cavallasca after Waterloo. I wonder if the V Cattaneo was his son, Vincent? I was saddened to hear of the family’s demise – I hadn’t come across it until now. I live in SA and have been trying to locate and buy a barometer, unsuccessfully, but would be thrilled to have anything from my family. If anybody hears of anything reasonably priced (the Rand is worthless!), please would you let me know.
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Hi Denise, I am also related to Anthony and Vincent. (Gx5 and Gx4 Grandfathers I think) I am from Teresa’s first sons line. You may be able to help me connect some dots? Thank you.
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Hi, good to hear from you. I have a few things I could tell or send you. Would really need your email. If you don’t want to publish it, try pick me up on FB and send a message. My profile picture is jacaranda trees, not the lady with the child who is my sister in law. Best wishes, Denise
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Hi There, I am john Quin married to Harry Thomas Watchmaker’s sister daughter Doreen Castelow. Harry sold me this Silver Pocket Watch around 1964 and told me all the history of the watch which I still have in good working order signed by Cattaneo Stockton-on-Tees. Regards John Anthony Quin.
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JOHN QUIN, MY WIFE DOREEN CASTELOW, AND UNCLE HARRY THOMAS WAS A WATCHMAKER. HARRY THOMAS KNEW THE CATTANEO FAMILY MOST OF THE FAMILY GOT TB AND DIED, AND CATTANEO BUSINESS FAILED. MR CATTANEO GOT DEPRESSED AND WENT AND HUNG HIMSELF ON THE GAS LAMP OUTSIDE HIS SHOP. A WHILE LATER HARRY THOMAS GOT THIS THIS SILVER POCKET WATCH FOR CLEANING AND WHEN THE PERSON RETURNED FOR THE WATCH, HARRY THOMAS MADE REFERENCE TO THE RARE POCKET WATCH. THE PERSON SAID IT’S FOR SALE, SO HARRY PURCHASED THE WATCH AROUND 1923. I CAME ON THE SCENE, JOHN QUIN AROUND 1956 HUSBAND OF DOREEN CASTELOW ASKING HARRY IF HE HAD ANY RARE SILVER POCKET WATCHES AND REPLIED YES I HAVE ONE MADE IN STOCKTON-ON -TEES AND IT’S FOR SALE. I PURCHASED THIS 1889 OLD SILVER POCKET WATCH AND IT’S IN MINT CONDITION AND I WIND IT ON A REGULAR BASIS, AND ITS TIME TO MOVE IT ALONG, JUST BEFORE I MOVE ALONG MYSELF. BEST REGARDS JOHN ANTHONY QUIN IRELAND 30/01/2023
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Hello John, thank you for your reply. My line was Anthony Cattaneo in York and Malton. Unbelievably I got the inner workings of a fusee pocket watch inscribed A Cattaneo York, on eBay in the USA. Very special. Best wishes, Denise.
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I have a Barometer with the name V. Cattaneo, Stockton etched on the face, as well as what looks like a farm house, farm out buildings, a church and on top of a hill a windmill. The barometer is still accurate despite it being very old.
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John Kirk do you know if your Kirks were Yorkshire folks, done my fathers mothers ancestry (Kirk) earliest Kirks from Headingley, Yorkshire.
Derek
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I am thinking of giving this Lovely Silver Pocket Watch to Preston Park Museum, that’s if they have not got one. The CATTANEO family got wiped out with T/B, and his business failed that’s why he hung himself – the poor man had nothing to live for. My own Mother died of T/B. so my feelings are telling me, let it be where the marker made it and died, and not for getting its part on Stockton-on tees HISTORY, Mick John Jack Quin of Hardwick.
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John, what a very kind gesture that would be. Another positive outcome for the people of Stockton from the Picture Stockton community.
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It seems that the Cattaneo ‘silversmith’ family had it’s origins in Valencia, Italy. In an 1847 trade-directory for Briggate, Leeds (the city’s original main shopping street) there’s a ‘D. Cattaneo-silversmith’ shown trading, with another family member trading as a ‘hardware dealer’ in the same street. Maybe the Stockton shop was owned by yet another family member?
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I worked in Stockton in the mid 1950s’ and have one of Cattaneo and Sons silver pocket watches that I purchased years ago from a Mr Thomas, a watch maker himself. He said at the time look after it as it could be worth a few bob in years to come, a nice piece as it is.
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Hi, I am the John Quin from Ireland, and I still have the silver pocket watch by Cattaneo of Stockton-on-Tees in very good condition and still working, it was said to me that the whole family got struck down with T/B and this poor man hung himself from the gas lamp-post out side his shop. May he R.I.P.
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After Collingwood’s the shop was taken into the Ratner chain but ceased trading as a jewellers when the Ratner Group crashed. Another story concerning this shop when Mr. Cataneo owned it was that he committed suicide by hanging himself from the lamp post outside the shop!
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