40-489: Knibb is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: John Knibb (1650–1722), English clockmaker Kellion Knibb (born 1993), Jamaican athlete Lloyd Knibb (1931–2011), Jamaican drummer Taylor Knibb (born 1998), American triathlete William Knibb (1803–1845), English Baptist minister and missionary to Jamaica See also [ edit ] Knabb [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
80-618: A blue plaque at Claydon to Samuel, Joseph and John Knibb. Childrey#Clockmaker Childrey is a village and civil parish about 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (4 km) 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 Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire . The 2021 Census recorded
120-563: A post office until it ceased trading in June 2008. There is still a village shop. The last pub in the village, The Hatchet, ceased trading in 2016, but reopened in August 2021 for 4 days each week. Childrey village hall opened in 1896. There is a village pond. It has existed for centuries and was used for watering livestock. Ridgeway C of E primary school is in Childrey. It was opened in 1913 as
160-551: 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. Between 1805 and 1807 the section of the Wilts & Berks Canal between Longcot and Challow
200-489: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles John Knibb John Knibb (1650–1722) was an English clockmaker born in Claydon, Oxfordshire . He produced various clocks and watches including bracket clocks , lantern clocks , longcase clocks , and some wall-clocks, as well as building and maintaining several turret clocks . Even though his main market was catering to customers of modest means, he also dominated
240-583: Is in the Clockmakers' Museum at the Guildhall, London . The Museum of the History of Science, Oxford has three that were also made in about 1690. The collection at Oxford includes one of Knibb's bracket clocks, two of his longcase clocks and one of his wall clocks. After his brother Joseph died in 1711, his will proved in 1712 bequeathed his 230-acre (93 ha) farm at Hanslope to Knibb. However, only one clock
280-608: Is known with the inscription "John Knibb Hanslap" , so it appears that Knibb continued to work almost exclusively in Oxford. In 1686, Knibb was appointed a member of Oxford City Council. He was elected as one of the Bailiffs in 1688 and from 1690 to 1696. He was elected as one of the Mayor's assistants in 1697, and Keykeeper and assistant member of the Mayor's council in 1700. Knibb was elected Mayor of Oxford twice, in 1698 and 1710. In 1716, he
320-682: Is west of Hackpen Hill. It is 90 feet (27 m) in diameter and 4 feet (1.2 m) high. In the 19th century it was excavated and one cremation was found. The other barrow is just west of the B4001 road and about 1 ⁄ 2 mile (800 m) west of Hackpen Hill barrow. It is about 75 feet (23 m) in diameter and up to 3 feet 3 inches (1 m) high. Each barrow is a Scheduled Ancient Monument . The Thames Water company workers and experts from Cotswold Archeology discovered 26 skeletons belong to Iron Age from graves found in Childrey in 2019. The site called Childrey Warren dates back to
360-589: The Cartularium Saxonicum . The name is derived from the Old English Cillan-rīþ or Cilloan-rīþ , meaning "Cilla's stream". This became the toponym for the manor and village, which an Anglo-Saxon will from 950 records as Cillariðe . The Domesday Book of 1086 and an entry for 1220 in the Book of Fees record it as Celrea . Its spelling evolved through Chilree in the 13th century and Chelrey in
400-407: The surname Knibb . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Knibb&oldid=1189753315 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
440-636: The 13th to 15th centuries before reaching its current form. About 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.4 km) southwest of the village is Hackpen Hill. There are hills of the same name in Dorset and Wiltshire . The name may be derived from the Old English haca meaning "hook" and Old Welsh pen meaning "hill". Before the Norman conquest of England the manor of Frethornes was held by an Anglo-Saxon freeman called Brictric. The Domesday Book records that by 1086 it
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#1733084634204480-465: The 14th century, the Perpendicular Gothic west tower in the 15th and the south porch in the 16th century. One window and a tomb recess are surviving original Decorated Gothic features of one of the transepts, but both transepts now have Perpendicular windows that were inserted later. The tomb recess in the north transept contains a fine effigy of a knight. The south transept is the larger of
520-414: The 1680s. The number of qualified clockmakers with freedom of the city increased more slowly, peaking at seven early in the 1690s. In the late 1680s and early 1690s apprentices were not replaced after they completed their seven years of training. The number of apprentices fell rapidly, and from the mid-1690s until the mid-1720s there were only ever one or two in the whole of Oxford. This was largely because
560-778: The Iron Age of England and is about 3,000 years old. According to CNN , Cotswold archaeologists have found a woman skeleton with her feet cut off and her arms attached behind her back. Based on the remains, it is believed that these people may have been the victims of human sacrifice . “The discovery challenges our perceptions about the past, and invites us to try to understand the beliefs of people who lived and died more than 2,000 years ago,” Neil Holbrook, head executive of Cotswold Archaeology stated about Childrey graves. The earliest known records of Childrey Brook are as Cillarīþ in Anglo-Saxon charters from 940 and 944, now reproduced in
600-664: The Knibb extended family, his bride being Elizabeth Knibb, from Collingtree in Northamptonshire . Knibb worked in Oxford at a time when clockmaking suddenly flourished in the city. During the Commonwealth of England Oxford had only two or three clockmakers and at times none of them had an apprentice. However, after the restoration of the Stuart monarchy Oxford's number of clockmakers' apprentices increased to five in 1670 and 12 for much of
640-432: The Vale of White Horse was opened in 1840. It passes through the northern extremity of Childrey parish, just under 2 miles (3 km) north of the village. Challow railway station was just outside the parish, about on the main road linking Faringdon and Wantage about 2 miles (3 km) north of Childrey village. The Great Western Railway opened the station in 1840 and British Railways closed it in 1964. Childrey had
680-503: The Virgin, Lytchett Matravers , Dorset . In 1371 the three chaplains granted the manor to the vicar of Lytchett Matravers, and his successors retained the manor until Edward VI 's abolition of chantries in 1547 . The Domesday Book records that in 1086 one William Leuric held the manor of Rampayns, which consisted of 12 hides . His lands passed to the Scroop family. The manor's name comes from
720-409: The business in Oxford. The premises that Knibb took over from his brother were a tenement on the south side of Holywell Street leased from Merton College, Oxford , built in the shadow of the city walls on what had been the town ditch. Knibb produced bracket clocks , lantern clocks , longcase clocks , and wall clocks. His products were more numerous than his Oxford competitors. He catered for
760-594: The de Rampayn family, who held it from about 1230 to 1329. It then passed through the Achard, Lynt, Walrond, Kentwood and Waryng families. Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Waryng married her second husband William Fettiplace, with whose descendants the manor then remained until the 19th century. John Fettiplace inherited the manor in 1657 and after the restoration of the English Monarchy was created Sir John Fettiplace, 1st Baronet, of Childrey. The baronetcy became extinct on
800-429: The death of Sir George Fettiplace, 5th Baronet in 1743, whereupon the manor passed to his sister Diana. She was married to John Bushel of Cleeve Prior , Worcestershire , but their son Thomas took the surname Fettiplace. His son Charles died in 1805 leaving the manor to his nephew Richard Gorges. He too took the surname Fettiplace but he died the following year, leaving the manor to his sister. The manor then passed through
840-428: The families of Dacre, Farmer and Schoolcroft Burton, and in 1924 was owned by a Mr Dunn. The Church of England parish church of Saint Mary the Virgin was originally late Norman , built either late in the 12th century or early in the 13th, but the only surviving original features are the south doorway and the font . The chancel was rebuilt late in the 13th century. The north and south transepts were added in
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#1733084634204880-494: The fee to 20 marks (£13 6s 8d) and admitted Knibb as a freeman in April 1673. Knibb and his wife Elizabeth had three sons and five daughters between 1679 and 1695. Four of their daughters predeceased them. Knibb died at Oxford in 1722, followed by his widow Elizabeth in 1726. They are buried at St Cross parish church with their four daughters. John and Elizabeth were survived by their one remaining daughter and three sons, of whom
920-580: The higher-quality sector. Only six of Knibb's watches are known to survive. Knibb was born in 1650, the sixth son of Thomas and Elizabeth Knibb of Claydon, Oxfordshire . He was cousin to the clock- and instrument maker Samuel Knibb (1625–70) and younger brother of the distinguished clock- and watchmaker Joseph Knibb (1640–1711). In about 1664 Knibb moved from Claydon to Oxford to join his elder brother as either an apprentice or an assistant. In 1670, Samuel Knibb died and Joseph moved to London to replace him, leaving John in charge in Oxford. However, John
960-520: The less expensive segment of the market but he also dominated the higher quality part of the market. Knibb built and maintained turret clocks . From 1673 until his death in 1722, he maintained the turret clock at Wadham College, Oxford that was probably made by his brother Joseph. He built the turret clock for St John's College, Oxford in 1690 and repaired the clock at St Bartholomew's parish church, Yarnton in 1703. Six of Knibb's watches are known to survive. One verge watch made in about 1690
1000-456: The market was now fully supplied, sustaining between three and five freemen clockmakers for the corresponding three decades. Knibb himself took a succession of 10 apprentices between 1673 and 1722. Between 1681 and 1688 he seems to have had three apprentices at the same time, as well as Aldworth as his journeyman. In this busy period for clockmaking John Knibb was preeminent. When Joseph moved to London in 1670, John took more responsibility for
1040-586: The parish covered an area of just over 2,700 acres (1,100 ha). Childrey village is on the B4001 road , which joins the A417 road about 2 miles (3 km) to the north. The B4507 road passes east – west through the parish just south of the village, and forms a crossroads with the B4001. On the Berkshire Downs about 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.4 km) south of the village are two Bronze Age bowl barrows . One
1080-503: The parish population as 527. Childrey is a spring line settlement on the escarpment of the Berkshire Downs . The parish measures just over 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (9 km) north – south but less than 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.4 km) east – west at its widest point. Its highest point is a chalk hill on The Ridgeway about 2 miles (3 km) south of the village, which is at least 750 feet (230 m) high. In 1924
1120-467: The parish school for Childrey. In 1998 it merged with the school in nearby Letcombe Regis and adopted its current name. The buildings were extended in 2000. Childrey has a playing field with a football pitch, a playground and a pavilion with changing facilities. It also hosts the local preschool , and annual events including Childrey music festival, Bonfire night celebrations and the local spring classic cycling sportive. Childrey Football Club play in
1160-529: The ring to eight. St Mary's parish is part of the Ridgeway Benefice , along with the parishes of Kingston Lisle , Letcombe Bassett , Letcombe Regis , Sparsholt and West Challow . Childrey Methodist church opened in 1849 as a Wesleyan chapel. There was a separate Primitive Methodist chapel until the Methodist Union in 1932. The front of the chapel building collapsed in 1986. A new building
1200-534: The tenor bell in 1632 and the fourth and fifth bells in 1639. Pack and Chapman of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry cast the second bell in 1770. George Mears & Co of the same foundry cast the treble bell in 1865, and Mears and Stainbank of Whitechapel recast the third bell in 1907. Then in 2005 the 1865 treble bell was removed and the Whitechapel foundry cast a new treble, second and third bells to increase
1240-417: The two and is the family Fettiplace chapel. St Mary's is notable for its numerous monumental brasses , including one to William Fynderne (died 1444) and his wife which at 52 inches (1.3 m) long is the largest in old Berkshire. The church is a Grade I listed building . The west tower has a ring of eight bells. Until the 21st century it was a ring of six. Ellis I Knight of Reading, Berkshire cast
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1280-565: The youngest, Joseph (born 1695), had been apprenticed to a London clockmaker in 1710. Knibb left young Joseph only one shilling in his will, because he had already inherited a legacy of £200 from his uncle Joseph, who died in 1711. Knibb had several apprentices during his career. One was Samuel Aldworth, from Childrey , who was apprenticed to Knibb in 1673 and became a freeman of the city with his own clock business in 1689. In 1697 Joseph Knibb retired from London to Hanslope and Aldworth moved to London to succeed him. In 1703, Aldworth married into
1320-462: Was completed. It passes through the parish about 1 ⁄ 3 mile (540 m) north of the village. Childrey had a wharf on the canal, about 3 ⁄ 4 mile (1.2 km) north of the village. Traffic on the canal had virtually ceased by 1901 and the route was formally abandoned in 1914. The Wilts & Berks Canal Trust is currently restoring the canal. The Great Western Main Line through
1360-496: Was defeated and Mautravers' lands, including his manor at Childrey, were seized. They were restored to him in 1327 and he was summoned to Parliament as Baron Maltravers in 1330. However, in March of that year he was involved in the execution of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent , for which he forfeited his estates again. This time Maltravers was condemned to death but he escaped to mainland Europe . In Maltravers' absence Childrey
1400-483: Was elected Alderman . Knibb's friends included the antiquarians Anthony Wood and Thomas Hearne . In 1716, Hearne wrote "This Nibb is a man of so little understanding that he was never known to laugh". However, on learning of Knibb's death in 1722 Hearne wrote that Knibb was "an old, quiet, harmless Man abt. 4 score years of Age." On 26 September 2010 the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board unveiled
1440-407: Was granted to John de Nevill of Hornby . De Nevill died heirless and Childrey was in 1336 granted to John de Ufford, but he too died without an heir. In 1348 Childrey was granted to Agnes, wife of John Maltravers , and he was again restored to all his estates in 1352. After Maltravers died in 1364, Agnes devoted the manor to the support of three chaplains at a chantry at the parish church of St Mary
1480-475: Was held by a Norman, Turstin FitzRou. The manor's name comes from the de Frethorne family, who were tenants of the manor by 1166 and remained so until 1357. In 1514, the manor was recorded as being held by Baron FitzWarin and his heirs, who held the manor of Wantage. An annual payment of four bushels and two pecks of wheat from Frethornes to the manor of Wantage was still payable in 1771. The manor of Mautravers
1520-541: Was held by an Anglo-Saxon freeman called Edmund before the Conquest, and afterwards by Roger de Lacy . The manor got its name from several generations of lord of the manor who were all called John Mautravers or Maltravers, and who held it from the late 12th to the late 14th centuries. The earliest known John Mautravers held the manor by 1194 and died in 1201. A later John Mautravers supported Roger Mortimer de Chirk in his rebellion against Edward II in 1321–22. The rebellion
1560-512: Was not a freeman of the City of Oxford, so all the clocks that he made still had to be signed "Joseph Knibb" . In 1672, Knibb applied to become a freeman of Oxford, and the Mayor and City Council proposed that he should be admitted for a fee of £30. Knibb considered this excessive, so he asked Brome Whorwood , one of the two MPs for Oxford , to intervene. Under Whorwood's persuasion, the Council reduced
1600-649: Was opened in 1994. 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
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