WAPP - Waltham Abbey Personnel Project

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Biography:

1. James Smith was employed as 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 he was still employed as an occasional Labour earning 2/8d per day in the Engineers' Department, and that he was first employed by the Board on the 5th October 1811 as a Labourer. He was a 52-year-old married man with 3 unmarried children, who lived in Waltham Abbey. 3. WO54/520 dated the 28th February 1817, updated the previous information given and stated that he was paid 2/4d per day; all other details remained unchanged.