page_title: Childrey
section_title: Clockmaker
hierarchical_section_title: Childrey / Economic and social history / Clockmaker
caption_attribution_description: English: Childrey Wharf on the abandoned Wilts &amp; Berks canal north of Childrey, Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire), after restoration
context_page_description: Childrey is a village and civil parish about 2 ¹⁄₂ miles west of Wantage in the Vale of White Horse. The parish was part of the Wantage Rural District in Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred the whole of the Vale of White Horse from Berkshire to Oxfordshire. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 582.
context_section_description: Samuel Aldworth, a yeoman of Childrey, was apprenticed to the notable clockmaker John Knibb of Oxford in 1673. After his seven-year apprenticeship he remained in his master's service until 1689, when he was made a freeman of the City of Oxford and established his own clockmaking business in the city.
  In 1697 Knibb's elder brother, the distinguished clock and watchmaker Joseph Knibb, sold his business in London and retired to Hanslope in Buckinghamshire. Aldworth moved to London in his place and became a brother of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers. In 1703 Aldworth was granted a licence to marry Elizabeth Knibb of Collingtree, Northamptonshire.
  In later life Aldworth retired to Childrey, where he continued his work. One longcase clock dated 1725 is signed Sam Aldworth at Childrey From London. Aldworth died in about 1730.
caption: Childrey Wharf on the Wilts & Berks Canal
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