Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,669 pages of information and 247,074 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
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of Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre, France
1792: On the site of the paper mill of Noel Jelin at Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre, Henry Sykes (from England) built the first spinning mill, called "l'Ancienne", deriving its power from the River Avre. His only daughter Grace married William Waddington and thus began the "Waddington" dynasty.[1]
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