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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>All I know about H Milward & Sons Ltd is that the original company was
founded in 1730 and that the founder was Symon MILWARD. I know there was a
Henry MILWARD III (1801-187, John Frederick MILWARD (1824 to 1916) and
Victor MILWARD (1840-1901).

For more information on the MILWARDs you could try writing to the Forge Mill
National Needle Museum, Needle Mill Lane, Riverside, Redditch Worcs.

Astwood Bank is now part of Redditch and Hanbury is about 10 miles from
Redditch.
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Source: [url=http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/ENG-WORCESTER/2001-02/0981287388:4d9e2]http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/ENG-WORCESTER/2001-02/0981287388[/url:4d9e2]

Many hook makers were needle makers at one time.

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Christopher Chin
Jonquiere Quebec
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