The People Index

Social history is an important feature of the Archive. Mill enthusiasts and family historians have collaborated to give us many valuable photographs and documents. You can search our databases to find information on millers; millwrights, mill owners, engineers and others with an involvement in milling

Our People Index is a rapidly growing database that we use to catalogue any Archive records we hold that relate to millers, millwrights etc. Whenever we add to our catalogue a new record containing significant information about someone with a milling connection, we add that person to the Index. The Index is therefore growing rapidly as more records are catalogued.

If a person is not mentioned there, you can search Mary Yoward's Database of Millers & Millwrights, which she has assembled over some 20 years and contains more than 30000 entries giving the person’s name and trade, gender, place and county as well as notes of interest and the source of the information (eg a directory, census or other record). Trades mentioned include apprentice, baker, brewer, corn merchant, farmer, mealman and mill owner as well as many types of miller and other related trades.