Biography:
1. James Morris was an occasional Labourer in the Engineers' Department earning 2/8d per day for a six-day-week (WO54/512 dated September 1812).
2. WO54/516 dated February 1816, confirmed that James was an occasional Labourer earning 2/8d per day in the Engineers' Department, first employed by the Board on the 1st July 1812. This Return also stated that James was an 18-year-old bachelor, living in Waltham Abbey.