A now removed entry about Weston Mill in Pennycross, Devon, said that
At the time of the census in 1851, 33-years-old Mr
James Boon was the corn miller, employing nine men. His wife, Maria, was 38 and
they had a two-years-old son, William, who was born at Pennycross. In addition
to a visitor from London, there were two manservant cum labourers, Richard and
John Wills, aged 15 and 17 respectively, and two female house servants, Miss
Susan Pascoe, 20, and Miss Eliza Knight, 16.
Possibly one of the millers that James employed was
a Mr William Rickard, the 14-years-old son of farm labourer, Mr Thomas Rickard (born 1792),
who lived nearby.
