Biography:
1. William Bowles started at the Mills on the 7th April 1789 as a Labourer in the Saltpetre Refinery, earning 1/6d per day (Winters, p.33, and Supply5/213 of the 18th April 1789).
2. Supply 5/214 dated September 1789 records that he was 27 years of age, and employed as a Labourer refining Saltpetre.
3. By March 1790,Bowles had become a Millman earning 2/-d per day (Supply 5/214 dated the 27th June 1791).