John Whaley appears to have been born in April 1683 and was listed as a Master Clockmaker working in Bolton, and he took on as his apprentice one Henry Warburton in 1722.
Henry was apprenticed on 1st December 1721 for seven years for a fee of £10. Henry went on to greater things working in Liverpool and Wolverhampton.
The register of Apprentices 1722
Also known to make his clocks as Johannes Walley de Bolton