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Hope this may be relevant, as it has not been mentioned so far and may indicate further female founders</div>
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Extract (my translation) from a letter I received in 1992 from M. Henri Brossier of Vire, knowlegeable on Normandy bells, regarding the 1913 bells of St Peter Port cast by the foundry at Villedieu</div>
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John David</div>
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Guernsey</div>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tms Rmn","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">M Adolphe Havard, last descendant of this
family, died in March 1923, leaving only three daughters. The second, Juliette, had married in July 1900 a polytechnicien, M Leon Corneille, who had been in association with her father, and, on the death of the latter continued to direct the foundry. M and
MMe Corneille had only two daughters, who did not marry. M Corneille died in his turn in 1934 His wife burnt (<i>Hèlas )</i> all the family archives. She [let] the foundry to a director, M Peeters He had to retire in 1944 because he was reproached with collaborating
with the Germans. Mlle Corneille, the younger, took back the foundry, helped by a new director, then on her own when he left. In 1982, now aged 78, she ceded the foundry to M and MMe Bergamo who were the actual managers</span> </div>
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