Biography:
1. John Haycock was working as a casual Labourer in the Engineers' Department, earning 2/8d per day for a six-day week (WO54/512 dated September 1812).
2. WO54/516 dated February 1816, confirmed he was employed as a casual Labourer, but recorded that he was only earning 2/4d per day. He was first employed by the Board on the 29th March 1806 as a Labourer, and was a 50-year-old bachelor living in Waltham Abbey.
3. WO54/520 dated 20th February 1817, confirmed that his pay was 2/4d per day, and that all other details remained unchanged