The Millers & Millwrights Database

Family historians and mill researchers are fortunate in being given access to the extensive database assembled by Mary Yoward, with help from her husband Tony. They have been collecting data on millers and millwrights and entering them on computer for almost 20 years.The late Eve Logan, another assiduous compiler of information on millers and millwrights, found ill health prevented her continuing with her Millers Index, so in 2000, before her sad death, she gave Mary over 30 bulging lever-arch files of information to add to her own.

Both Mary and Tony are well-respected industrial archaeologists with an interest in mills and have donated their work to the Mills Archive. They will continue to update the database, but expect all queries in future to be sent to us.

In the combined database, there are more than 30,000 separate mentions of individuals, 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). Please note that this began purely as an interest and must not be taken as 100% accurate - as always, sources must be checked.