[1] Emery set up as a watch and clock maker at Cockspur Street, Charing Cross, London.
Thomas Mudge had invented the lever escapement in around 1755, giving timepieces their characteristic ‘tick-tock’ sound.
[2] Josiah Emery married Anne Jacob (1739-1769) on 4 July 1762 at St Martin in the Fields, Westminster.
He had signed the marriage license and its bond on 1 July as Josias Emery, of the parish of St Ann [Soho, Westminster], watchmaker, bachelor, age 30."
Emery’s aunt by marriage, Esther Courtauld (1711-1763), Augustin’s second daughter, had married Etienne/Stephen Goujon (1696-1778), also of Huguenot descent and an eminent watchcase maker in Gerard Street, Westminster.
Thomas and Anne’s only surviving son John Johnson (1757-1800) became a clockmaker at the same premises in Grays Inn Passage after his father’s early death.