At 13:18 29/12/98 -0800, noelene jones wrote:
...Richard Jones was born
in Montgomeryshire about 1815 ... Richard Jrs death cert states Richard Sr
was a 'Miller' ... Richard my GGgrandfather was a 'sawyer' ... so maybe
could there have been timber mills?
Just to supplement Dick Jones' remarks, water-powered corn milling declined
later in the 19th century (steam mills and railways came along) - an
example, from my wife's family, was a miller when he married in Breconshire
in the middle of the century but just a few years later was a carpenter and
then an "Engine Man".
A water-powered corn mill is by far the most likely kind of mill that
you're looking for; but there were also fulling mills (for processing
woollen cloth). Pandy is the Welsh word for fulling mill, and it appears in
place-names (Tonypandy springs to mind).
"Melin", Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Melinau Cymru - Journal of the Welsh Mills
Society - may have some useful information. If you need the Society's address
e-mail me and I will dig it out when Christmas has subsided.
Regards,
Theo Brueton