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<p>Aldbourne (Wilts.), where bells were cast, has variations of that
surname:</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.treelines.co.uk/tuknew/tuk-reg.asp?family=GILMORE">http://www.treelines.co.uk/tuknew/tuk-reg.asp?family=GILMORE</a></p>
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<p>This states soldier:</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://tverdinlegacybellworks.com/revere-bell-foundry">https://tverdinlegacybellworks.com/revere-bell-foundry</a></p>
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<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Ken</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/02/2026 10:51, <a
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href="mailto:bill@hibberts.co.uk">bill@hibberts.co.uk</a> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Aptos"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt">I have been doing some work on
the bells of Paul Revere and his successors, in particular
collecting and analysing recordings, as you do.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Aptos"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Aptos"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt">In Neil Goeppinger’s book Large
Bells of America, he says on page 5, concerning Revere’s
entry into the bell trade:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Aptos"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt">The nearest foundry casting
church bells at the time was at Abington, Massachusetts,
where Colonel Aaron Hobart had hired a British Navy
deserter named Gillimore who had worked in an English
bellfoundry. . . [Revere] sent his son Joseph to England
to learn bell-casting . . . Joseph bought a bell by John
Warner of London to use as a model. Later, in 1795, Revere
sold the Warner bell to the North Congregational Society
of Newburyport, Massachusetts.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Aptos"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt"> Does anyone know of Gillimore,
the deserter and bellfounder, and where he might have
worked in the UK?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Aptos"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Aptos"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt">Bill H<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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