Biography:
1. Thomas Guinn (3) was employed in the Engineers' Department as a Labourer and paid 2/2d per day for 313 days, giving him an income of £33.18.2d annually. He had 1 year's service from the 1st April, 1822. He was a 31-year-old married man living in Waltham Abbey, with two children (WO54/542 dated the 1st April 1823).
2. WO54/550 dated the 1st April 1825 confirmed the information stated in the previous Return, except that his service was 3 years, and he was then aged 34. His family details remained the same.
3. WO54/550 dated the 1st October 1825 confirmed the previous entry.
4. WO54/554 dated the 1st April 1826 recorded that a Thomas Guinn, a 35-year-old married man with two children, was employed in the Engineers' Department as a Labourer, and confirmed that his appointment dated from the 1st April 1822, i.e., that he had 4 years' service.
5. WO54/554 dated the 1st October 1826, gave the same information as the previous Return.
6. WO54/558 dated the 1st April 1827, recorded similar information, except that Thomas was 36 years' old and at that date had served for 5 years.
7. WO54/558 dated the 1st October 1827, gave the same details as previously, except that he then had over 5 yeas' service and was nearly 37 years of age. In addition, his children then numbered five.
8. Return dated the 1st April 1828 (WO54/562) updated Thomas's basic information.
9. Return dated the 1st October 1829 (WO564/566) updated his age and length of service, family and pay details remaining unchanged.
10 According to the Return dated the 1st April 1830 (WO54/570), Thomas (3) was still earning £33.18.2d per annum as a Labourer. By then he had served 8 years and was 39 years' old, with five children.
11 Return WO54/570 dated the 1st October 1830, confirmed that Thomas was still working as a Labourer; his family details and pay were unchanged, but his length of service and age had been updated.
12 A Return of Persons belonging to the Civil Establishment of the Ordnance at the Gunpowder and Small Arms Manufactories at Waltham Abbey, Faversham and Enfield - showing in detail the several points of information called for by the Master General and Board's Order dated the 31st January, 1831 - recorded that Thomas Guinn was one of the 15 Labourers to be employed at Waltham Abbey Powder Mills and Enfield Small Arms Factory. He was still paid 2/2d per day, and employed to undertake different services as a Labourer in the Manufactories where steadiness and sobriety were particularly required (WO54/575 dated January 1821).
13 WO54/575 dated the 1st April 1831 and WO54/575 of October 1831, confirmed that Thomas (3) still earned 2/2d per day as indicated in Note 1, giving him a total of £33.18.2d per annum. In 1831, however, he had served over 9 years and he was aged just over 40.
14 WO54/581 dated the 1st April 1832, updated his age and period of service in the October 1831 Return, with all other details remaining unchanged.
15 WO54/581 dated the 1st October 1832 confirmed that Thomas (3) still earned £33.18.2d per annum. He had by then served over 10 years and his age was given as just over 41.
16 WO54/587 dated the 1st April 1833, gave the same information as in Note 15, except that Thomas (3) was now 42, and had served for 11 years.
