WAPP - Waltham Abbey Personnel Project

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Biography:

1. James Sumpter was employed as a Cylinder Man earning 2/-d per day (Supply 5/226 dated the 18th June 1807). According to the List of Artificers and Officers employed dated the 23rd August 1808, he was working at Fisher Street in West Sussex (Supply 5/227). 2. Supply 5/228 dated the 1st September 1810 confirmed that he was employed as a Cylinder Man at 2/-d per day. 3. He was still a Cylinder Man on the 29th August 1812, but according to Supply 5/229 of that date, he then earned 2/8d per day. 4. At the 13th February 1814 Mr. Sumpter was still a Cylinder Man who still earned 2/8d per day (Supply 5/230).