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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>There is a nineteenth century woman bellfounder who doesn’t get mentioned much, though I don’t know whether she had much active involvement: Frances Blews of Birmingham. William Blews died in 1887, at the age of 59 (see vol III of Chris Dalton’s <u>Bells and Belfries of Dorset</u>). The bellfounding side of his business was sold to Charles Carr of Smethwick in 1891. During the four year period between these dates his widow Frances appears to have run it, though I am not sure how many bells the firm produced then. Dalton only mentions a single bell at Bournemouth St John the Evangelist of c.1890.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Peter Rivet<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Bell-historians <bell-historians-bounces@lists.ringingworld.co.uk> <b>On Behalf Of </b>oliver Lee<br><b>Sent:</b> 03 April 2021 18:07<br><b>To:</b> Bell Historians Mailing List <bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Bell Historians] Request for info: women in bellfounding<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>One particularly notable female bellfounder I can think of is the 15<sup>th</sup> century London founder Joanna hille whose bells can be mostly found in Essex and other parts of the country, additionally there was also Joanna sturdy who also appears to have been active around the same period. With regards to carillons Nora Johnston of Croydon had a close involvement in the running of Gillet and Johnston (as she was the sister of the foundry’s owner Cyril) but she appears to have mostly served as an inhouse carilloner (having learnt at melchen during the 1920s). <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I hope this can help some of your research <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Oliver lee <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:gtbartonbells@gmail.com">Neal Dodge</a><br><b>Sent: </b>03 April 2021 16:28<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk">Bell Historians Mailing List</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Bell Historians] Request for info: women in bellfounding<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Scott, <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Although not connected to <span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>carillons, and a lot earlier than the 20thC, there's Alice Brend of the Norwich Brend foundry dynasty. Not sure of the level of her involvement with bell founding but her name is attributed to 90 bells cast between 1589-1633 that are hung for change ringing along with her husband William Brend. </span><a href="https://dove.cccbr.org.uk/bells.php?founder=465" target="_blank">https://dove.cccbr.org.uk/bells.php?founder=465</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>When William died in 1634 he left his foundry to their son John but half of the debts owed to him along with half of the bell metal was given to Alice. Pages 32-37 <a href="https://www.whitingsociety.org.uk/old-ringing-books/lestrange-norfolk-01.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.whitingsociety.org.uk/old-ringing-books/lestrange-norfolk-01.pdf </a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Seemingly none of the other Brend family, before or after William, included their wives names as part of their inscription on the bells they cast, perhaps indicating a greater role for Alice in the business?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Attached is a drawing of the shield William & Alice cast onto their bells. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=152 height=178 style='width:1.5833in;height:1.8541in' id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image001.png@01D728BD.F5CCAB00"><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sat, 3 Apr 2021 at 11:06, Scott Allan Orr <<a href="mailto:orr.scott@gmail.com" target="_blank">orr.scott@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Hello all,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Prof Tiffany Ng (University of Michigan) and I are running a small project to document and promote early contributions of women to the carillon art (early being interpreted primarily as the first part of the 20th century, but also more broadly to include notable instances outside of this time frame). We welcome any information relevant to women who contributed to bellfounding and related activities, but especially with connections to firms or installations of carillons.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>For example, we are already familiar with contributions of Gwendoline Taylor in Loughborough (although this requires more archive work to fully understand), Sidonie and Marie Causard in France (early 20th century), and a successor to a branch of the Hemony foundry being taken on for a short time by a woman relative of one of the brothers.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>All my best,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Scott<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666'>—</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>SCOTT ALLAN ORR</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>+44(0)7541 486816</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>Bell-historians mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk" target="_blank">Bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk</a><br><a href="https://lists.ringingworld.co.uk/listinfo/bell-historians" target="_blank">https://lists.ringingworld.co.uk/listinfo/bell-historians</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Many Thanks <br>Neal Dodge<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>