Information on the Dawson family of millers from Cambridgeshire, 1827-1901. The following note was received from Mike Miles, June 2008: "With reference to the Dawson Family at Bourn Windmill....The Mill that they had was in the Broadway, they did not have the Famous Post Mill in Caxton Road. The Dawsons were ancestors of my Wife (nee Dawson). Mill House still exists in the Broadway (No. 49), but I have not seen it. The Dawsons had the mill from about 1880 until at least 1916."
Information on William Frederick Clark (d. 1876) and his son Charles Frederick Clark. Includes a transciption of the inquest into the death of George Clark on 21 March 1864
A collection of 10 newspaper cuttings. 8 are related to Chesterton Mills and the French family. One is related to the restoration of Bourn Windmill and a second is related to Turner's Milling Engineers of Ipswich.
Four folders containing the typescript, figures and illustrations, research notes and photographs, for the unpublished work, by Stephen Buckland, entitled "Brixton Windmill, the Wandle Mills, and the Ashbys". Includes family history and biographical material on the Ashby family.
Buckland, John Stephen Percy (1935-2006), mill researcher
Research material, as compiled by Stephen Buckland, relating to Sussex mills, Punnett's Town saw mills (including the draft of Stephen's published "The Punnett's Town, Heathfield, Wind Saw Mills" published in Sussex Industrial History No 21 and is available in our library), and Peter Hemming. Contains notes, photographs and correspondence.
Gregory, Frank William (1917-1998), mill researcher
List of the millers at the Cann and Melbury Abbas mills in Dorset from the Miles, Lush and Haskoll families, 16th to 20th centuries (37 named individuals). An additional 38 millers from other families are listed also.
