[Bell Historians] Early US bellfounding

[Ken Webb]

Aldbourne (Wilts.), where bells were cast, has variations of that surname:

http://www.treelines.co.uk/tuknew/tuk-reg.asp?family=GILMORE


This states soldier:

https://tverdinlegacybellworks.com/revere-bell-foundry


Regards,

Ken

On 10/02/2026 10:51, bill at hibberts.co.uk wrote:
>
> I have been doing some work on the bells of Paul Revere and his 
> successors, in particular collecting and analysing recordings, as you do.
>
> In Neil Goeppinger’s book Large Bells of America, he says on page 5, 
> concerning Revere’s entry into the bell trade:
>
> 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.
>
> Does anyone know of Gillimore, the deserter and bellfounder, and where 
> he might have worked in the UK?
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill H
>
>
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