Biography:
1. William Perry was employed as a general Labourer on the 26th October 1836. In 1839 his pay was £39.0.0d per annum, which included an allowance to watch in turn. He was a 25-year- old bachelor (WO54/623 dated the 1st October 1839).
2. William was the son of Joseph and Sarah Perry, and was baptised at Waltham Holy Cross on the 22nd May 1814. On the 16th May 1839, he married Mary Ann Winters of Walkern, a widow. Mary's son, William Winters, was the famous Waltham Abbey Historian and Writer.
3. A transcript of the 1841 Census recorded that William, a Labourer at the Powder Mills, and his wife Mary (25) together with their daughter Mary (aged 1) and William Winters, then aged 5, were living in a lane leading to Sewardstone.
