Jan and I started following the family as they were millers at the mill we're researching, but the more we find out about them, the more interesting they become. I am sure their stories would make a really interesting historical novel. Our main heroine was born into a milling family in Mid Wales, married a lad from another well-known milling family, and helped her husband to run the mill. She and her husband seem to have raised their grandson, and when he grew old enough he helped with the milling. After her husband died, our heroine ran the mill with the help of her grandson and when she died, he became the miller. Then things seem to have gone wrong but we don't really know why. The grandson bought the mill (it was previously leased) but his wife became ill, and she ended up in an asylum in South Wales whilst he was living nearby with his daughter, and working as an overground colliery labourer. Another family had taken over the mill. There are so many facets to the stories surrounding this family I bet Jan and I will still be doing our research five years hence. Because every time we think we're about ready to start writing the story down, we find another interesting character to follow.
