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Name: Charles Callensoe

Birth Date: 00/00/1740

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Sex: M

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Subject: Personnel Record

Document Date: 27/11/1788

PRO Reference: Supply 5/212

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Biography:

1. Charles Callensoe, born circa 1740, was seconded form the Royal Powder Mills at Waltham Abbey on the 17th December 1787 for training at Faversham (Supply 5/70). At Faversham he worked as a Labourer marking powder barrels and as a Stoveman. He was "entered for Waltham Abbey Powder Mills" on the 8th March 1788 (Supply 5/113). 2. According to a Report dated 24th January 1789, Mr. Callensoe had been transferred from Faversham ((Supply5/212). 3. He was working as a Millman according to the List of Persons Employed dated 27th November 1788 (Supply 5/212), but on the 29th January 1789 (also Supply 5/212) Mr. Callensoe was described as a Stoveman. The List of Personnel and Pay dated the 21st March 1789 (Supply 5/212) recorded that he was earning 1/6d per day. 4. In Supply 5/213 dated the 18th April 1789, he was described as "cutting and planting willow trees, cutting of canal at the new Corning House, removing earth to the Stove, unloading a barge of coals & charring wood." 5. Supply 5/214 dated September 1789 recorded that he was 49 years of age and was "Warding at the Refining House Field Gate and Bank of Canal."