Willson family

Sectors:

  • Food & tobacco processing Grain milling inc flour, starch & glucose products

Notes:

Owners of tower windmills in Lincolnshire from 1820s. Built a tower mill in 1840s followed by another in 1860s and by a steam mill in 1870s. Thomas Willson was first to enter milling followed by his son, Robert, 1838-1912

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