Biography:
1. William Wines started as an Apprentice in the general manufacture of gunpowder at the Mills on the 16th February 1789 at the age of 12 at 1/-d per day (Supply 5/213 dated the 22nd August 17890. Supply 5/214 dated September 1789, confirmed that he was 12 years' old and was still employed as an Apprentice.
2. He completed his Apprenticeship at the end of January 1793, and started work grinding Salt Petre and Charcoal on the 1st February 1793 (Supply 5/216 dated the 28th January 1793).
3. He was still grinding Salt Petre and Charcoal in August and September 1793 (Supply 5/216) until August 1794 (Supply 5/216) as well as in December 1794 (Supply 5/217) and his
rate of pay during the whole of this period was 1/6d per day.
4. Robert Coleman, Clerk of the Cheque, recorded that on the 13th/14th May 1793, William had gone away from his watch without leave and was therefore ordered off his watch. (Winters' Centenary Memorial, p.39). Winters also stated that Wines lived in the Market Place where Mr. H. I. James lived in 1888.
5. William enlisted as a Private in the Volunteer Company on the 7th May 1794 (Supply 5/219)
6. Robert Coleman recorded in his Minute Book on the 9th March 1795 that the Rounder had found W. Wines, watchman, asleep on duty and that he was chequered (fined) - Winters, op.cit. p.45.
7. Report dated 24th June 1795 on established Artificers and Labourers employed at the Powder Mills, stated that Wines was a "Brimstone Millman". His pay remained at 1/6d per day (Supply 5/217).
8. He was still a Private in the Volunteer Company in 1798 (Supply 5/219).
