CATT, John (Grimwade p.300, 461)

[MCB]

He is mentioned on page 53 of Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World as active from 1762.
The christening of John Thomas, the son of John Catt, a watch case maker and his wife Anne, was recorded at St Giles, Cripplegate in 1771.
In 1772 he paid Duty as a goldsmith for the apprentice indentures of Henry Allen Moore.
He was assessed to Land Tax on property in Bridgwater Gardens from 1772-3. He had entered a mark at Goldsmiths Hall as a case maker from this address in 1771 and had left there by 1774.
The burial of a John Catt was recorded at St Luke, Finsbury in 1774.
His son John Thomas applied for freedom by patrimony in the Goldsmiths Company in 1802.

[silverly]

1 March 1749 (NS) John son of Thomas Catt late of Higham in the County of Kent husbandman deceased apprenticed to Thomas Sones silversmith of London. Grimwade gives the master's name as Thomas Jones which in my opinion is because of either a typographical error or a misinterpreted letter "S."