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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Here's a curly one! "completed- thank you"
« on: Thursday 03 December 20 19:47 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

I could check the Gauron's marriage for you but I need more informations about the location. About the street name, is it a translation you did ? I can't find it and I need the city or borough to know where to send an e-mail to the archives. They aren't online or centralised before 1860.
I may have found Caroline Guéry's family (I'm not sure about it, didn't send them an e-mail yet). She was "my" Gauron's wife (the 1736 guy) if you are interested in ?

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Here's a curly one! "completed- thank you"
« on: Thursday 19 November 20 10:46 GMT (UK)  »
Hello,

I'm studying the belgian manufactory of Liège, created by Nicolas-François Gauron (sometimes written Gavron) and François Lefébure in 1767.
This Gauron is born in 1736 in Paris. He worked at the Mennecy and Bourg-la-Rein soft-paste porcelain manufactories in 1753.
In 1758 he was chief-modeller in François Peterinck soft-paste manufactoy in Tournai and marries Caroline Guéry. He had a son in 1759 named Nic(h)olas (I guess the son also had his father's firstnames). He produced with Jacques Lefebvre the group Apotheose of Charles d'Oultremont (ruler of Liège).
He left Tournai for Bruxelles then Weesp (near A'dam) and finally fonded the manufactory in Liège in 1767. He left it in 1770 and went to England, he worked at William Duesbury's Chelsea-Derby manufactory. I have no further infos after that of his life or son.
Hope it'll help you.

For more details :
Breuer (Jacques), Artistes étrangers de passage au pays de Liège à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, BIAL, Tome XLIX, 1924, p. 111-179 [online]
PHOLIEN F., La Céramique au Pays de Liège, AUG. Bernard, Liège, 1906 [Book]
GADEYNE, E., Les Faïenceries liégeoises du XVIIIe siècle, Liège, 1955 [Book]
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W.H. TAPP, The Gaurons. Father and son sculptors of Tournai and Chelsea, in Apollo, mars 1942 ; vol. 35, n° 207 (I have the reference but not the article)

P.S. The books aren't available online. Some archives of Liege manufactory (letter, register, notarial deeds) are at the end of Gadeyne's book.
P.S.S. If you have more infos about Gauron father, it could interest me.
P.S.S.S. Sorry about my English, I'm a French speaker

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