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#Thomas wagstaff clockmaker full#
The full clock by Thomas Stripling junior of Lichfield.
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Thomas and Hannah Stripling had two children baptised there: 31st Jan 1765 Thomas and in 1767 a second son named William.
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Hannah Hunt may have been related to him but cannot have been his widow or his daughter (unless by a previous marriage). His widow, Elizabeth, lived on till 1783. Chad's parish, where he was married in October 1760 to Elizabeth Stringer, but sadly died on the 22nd September 1761. Not much is known about Lichfield clockmaker John Hunt, except that he worked in St. Mary's, Lichfield on the 31st July 1763 to Hannah Hunt. I can find no evidence of his working at Coventry but it cannot be chance that Thomas Stripling was married at St. This Thomas, Thomas (I), is reputed to have worked at Coventry before his move to Lichfield, where he supposedly took over the business of clockmaker John Hunt on his decease in 1761. That seems to be the end of the clockmaking line at Barwell, who hardly ended their lives in affluence.Ī Thomas Stripling made clocks at Lichfield in Staffordshire from about 1760. Thomas's worldly wealth at the time was said to be under twenty pounds. He is styled as a clockmaker and left his rented property to Barwell to his widow, Mary, after whose death it was to pass to his son. It turns out that Thomas Stripling the Barwell clockmaker had moved to the adjacent village of Earl Shilton by November of 1775, when he signed his will, which was proved on the 6th February 1777. His workshop at Barwell is said by John Daniell to have been behind the Blacksmith's Arms and to have been demolished about 1950. Hewitt also records that Thomas died about 1775 but the whereabouts of his burial are unknown. If this is correct then Thomas must have married a second time, to another lady named Mary, which seems a bit unlikely. Pat Hewitt records his 'wife buried in Barwell churchyard 30th April 1755. A son, Thomas, was baptised to Thomas there in 1770. Presumably that of Thomas the clockmaker. Thomas was working as a clockmaker at Barwell and aged about 33 when he took as his own apprentice on the 1st August 1740, being John, the son of Thomas Lee, for a period of seven years at a premium of £15.00.Ī marriage at Barwell on the 13th October 1755 between Thomas Stripling and Mary Sheepy, was Thomas Stripling of Barwell would have been apprenticed from about 1721 to about 1728, but we have no record of this, nor of any apprenticeship for Francis. Anyway the long and short of it is that we know Francis Barwell was a clockmaker working there about 1770 to 1780. This Francis had a child baptised at Barwell in 1781 to a wife, who, according to the parish registers, was named Mary, but I wonder if this is a slip for Sarah. I knew both John Daniell and Pat Hewitt and the world of horological research is the poorer for their absence.Ī Francis Stripling was married at Barwell in 1770 to Sarah Price and this might be the clockmaker and might also have been the son of Thomas. ('Pat') Hewitt in his 1992 booklet 'Leicestershire and Rutland Clockmakers' does not mention Francis at all. Was assumed by the late John Daniell of Leicestershire Museum in his 1975 book 'Leicestershire Clockmakers' to be the son of Thomas. The fact that Striplings made clocks later at Lichfield seemed to imply that the clockmaking Striplings of Barwell moved shop to Lichfield, but things turned out differently.Ĭlocks have been recorded supposedly dating about 1775 signed by Francis Stripling at Barwell, who The professions of the earliest Stripling generations there are unrecorded, but they may well have been blacksmiths. He seems to be the Francis Stripling born at Barwell in 1671, the son of another Thomas. We can guess Francis was married not long before 1704, but I have been unable to locate the marriage. Francis had another child born there, Sarah, born in 1704. The first clockmaker there seems to be Thomas, who was baptised on the 17th April 1707, the son of Francis Stripling. The earliest clockmaking Striplings were located at Barwell in Leicestershire. I have seen their clocks here and there over the years, "Stripling Barwell", "Stripling Lichfield", but was it one Stripling or several different ones, one family or several? Well, I didn't know so I thought it might be a good idea to try to find out. The Stripling name is one we see on clocks now and then but a family we never quite know anything about. Valuations, appraisals & identification servicesĬollecting Antique Clocks The Stripling family of clockmakers