<div dir="ltr">Hi Scott, <div><br></div><div>Although not connected to <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,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></div><div>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><br></div><div>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?</div><div>Attached is a drawing of the shield William
& Alice cast onto their bells. </div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_kn1w23fw0" alt="image.png" width="152" height="178"><br></div><div> <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">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:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hello all,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">All my best,</div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">
<div>Scott</div><div><br><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#666666" size="1">—</font><br></font><div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2"><b>SCOTT ALLAN ORR</b></font></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="1" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a>+44(0)7541 486816</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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