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Originally Posted by MolsonExport
Not Willis. Wills. As in the Wills Tobacco family of Bristol, benefactors to Bristol University. My ancestors. I am a direct descendent of H.O. Wills.
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Corrected the spelling - there were quite a few Wills factories across the UK and they were a very wealthy and prominant family.
Beauiful Library and many of the Wills factories were beautiful Art Deco buildings like the one in Newcastle which was converted in to apartments
Here's a link to some of the Carnegie Libraries of Scotland
http://www.scotcities.com/carnegie/diverse.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ries_in_Europe