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of Grantham
Iron Founders and Millwrights
1810 Richard Hornsby arrived in Grantham and set up Seaman and Hornsby with his business partner, Richard Seaman, a fellow Methodist.
1815 Richard Hornsby was an iron and brass founder working from Spittlegate Ironworks at Grantham.
1828 Became Richard Hornsby when Seaman retired.
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