Derbyshire family's mission to return clock to 1930s dairy worker's family - Jersey Evening Post
by Megan Davies · Jersey Evening PostPosted inNews
Derbyshire family’s mission to return clock to 1930s dairy worker’s family
by Megan Davies 2 June 20261 June 2026
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A DERBYSHIRE woman is looking for help fulfilling her father’s final wish by finding the family of a Jersey dairy worker whose clock her father owned.
Margaret Bannister said her late father Derrick Sisson had a passion for clocks and was “always mending things”.
The presentation clock was made out to Emile Matthieu on the occasion of his marriage on 27 November 1935 by Jersey United Dairies Ltd, according to its plaque.
Mr Sisson obtained the clock around 15 years ago, according to Ms Bannister – most likely from an antiques or charity shop in the Derbyshire area.
“He always wanted to try to find the family that the clock was given to and see if we can reunite it with the family,” she said.
A former ironworks worker, Mr Sisson lived in Derbyshire until his death in January at the age of 98, and in his later years had said that if anything happened to him, he would like for the clock to go back to the family.
“He always had a fascination with clocks,” Mrs Bannister said as she described her father tinkering with them and finding old clocks he could repair and make work again.
Mrs Bannister has found a registration card for an Emile Matthieu but is now looking for his descendants.
Finding them, Mrs Bannister added, would be “something nice”.
“It’s a legacy for my dad. It’s something that he wished to do.”
Anyone who knows more about Emile Matthieu’s family and any descendants can contact the JEP by emailing news@jerseyeveningpost.com.
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