A little more color on Frank Gough, who's definitely the less well known of the two. Francis Joseph Gough (1865-1922) lived all of his life in the Manchester area. As the mark makes clear he was trained as a silversmith and appears in the 1881 census as an apprentice. In the other censuses during his lifetime he is listed as a silversmith (and sometimes goldsmith as well), while in area directories from the 1895-1909 he appears as a tobacconist. The 1911 census further specifies pipe mounter as the industry/service to which he was connected, suggesting that this was his primary occupation, at least at that time. Each census lists Gough as a Worker (vs. Employer or Own Account) which indicates to me that he probably worked for Carrington most if not all of his career. In 1881 he was living with his mother and siblings on Conran Street in northern Manchester. Sometime later, probably after his first marriage, Gough moved a few blocks away to 30 Rochdale Road in Blackley. There he stayed for over twenty years before moving again in about 1910, this time to 61 Newport Road in Chorlton-cum-Hardy in south Manchester. By the time of his death a decade later Gough had moved a short distance away to 87 Newport Road.
Gough was married twice, first to Alice Mary Collinson in 1884; they had one child, a son named Francis who was born in 1889 and died relatively young in 1908. Alice died in 1898. A few years later, in 1904, Gough married a woman named Lilian Mary McKay; they had one daughter named Lilian who was born in 1905 and lived until 1985. By the time of his wife Lilian's death in 1921 Gough is listed as retired. All of which is to say that a date mark of anywhere from about 1890 to 1920 is conceivable as far as Gough's apparent period of activity is concerned.
