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From: "Martin Briscoe" <>
Subject: Re: [HWE] de la Vallete?
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 11:55:51 +0100
In-Reply-To: <45133D09.2050303@atc.edu>


There was a building in Bolton, Valletts Buildings, where some of my family
lived in the 19th Century. Would Matthieu Valette have been a Huguenot?


"Valletts Buildings was named after Matthieu Valette (Vallet), a Frenchman
who came to England in 1787 to set up a works for making a new bleaching
liquor near Liverpool. His fortune and that of the Ainsworths of Halliwell
Bleachworks were closely bound up, and it was the Ainsworths who persuaded
Valette to enter their employ to help them introduce chemical bleaching at
Halliwell."


Martin Briscoe
Fort William
M&LFHS | Gwynedd FHS


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