Biography:
1. Charles Wiggs was described as "a Labourer in various parts of the Manufactory, setting & drawing stoves, loading and unloading barges etc." earning 2/-d per day (Supply 5/226 dated the 18th June 1807).
2. According to the List of Officers, Foremen and Artificers, etc. Employed dated the 23rd August 1808 (Supply 5/227) Mr. Wiggs was employed as a Labourer, "setting and drawing stoves, and in Willow Plantations, etc." earning 2/-d per day, and recorded that he was allowed to watch in turn.
3. A letter dated the 26th July 1809 recorded an increase in Wiggs' pay from 2/-d to 2/6d per day as a Cooper (Supply 5/199).
4. Wiggs was still a Cooper in 1810 at 2/6d per day, but was then not allowed to watch (Supply 5/228 dated the 1st September 1810).
5. Supply 5/229 dated the 29th August 1812 confirmed he was still employed as a Cooper but that his pay had increased to 4/6d per day, and he was still not allowed to watch. The same pay and conditions applied on the 13th February 1814 according to Supply 5/230.
6. Supply 5/231 dated the 25th June 1818 confirmed that Wiggs was still a Cooper, then paid 4/-d per day, but not allowed to watch. It also recorded that he was a single man aged 24, who lived in Waltham Abbey.
