The Mill People database

This is based upon the extensive database assembled by the late Mary Yoward, with help from her husband Tony.  The late Eve Logan, another assiduous compiler of information on millers and millwrights, gave Mary over 30 bulging lever-arch files to add to her own.  To this strong base Archive volunteers have added many more entries derived from a variety of sources, and this work continues.

Entries usually include the person's name and trade, gender, place and county, as well as notes of interest and the source of the information (such as a directory, census, parish register or other record). Because the same names often occur in several records there is some duplication and, inevitably, there may be some transcription errors: as always, original sources must be checked.

The Mill People database, together with other useful material on this site including a growing number of biographies and genealogies and our Mill Writing blog, may be searched from our search page.