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Thomas Mears, a founder
c.1781 Born in Whitechapel
1803 Admitted into the Company of Founders[1]
1806 Married Matilda Hunt[2]
1810 Master founder at Whitechapel Bell Foundry
1816 Birth of son Charles
1820 Birth of son George
1828 Occupied the Bell Foundry in Whitechapel[3]
1844 His sons, Charles and George, took over at the Foundry
1851 Thomas Mears died in Lewisham[4]
1871 Matilda died in Hackney[5]
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