WAPP - Waltham Abbey Personnel Project

1. James Horn was described as a Common Labourer who was paid 17/-d for work carried out by the Engineers' Department in the Manufactory, between the 15th and 21st July 1809. (Supply 5/228 dated the 21st July 1809). 2. WO54/512 dated September 1812, recorded that James was an occasional Labourer in the Engineers' Department, earning 2/8d per day for a six-day week. 3. WO54/516 dated February 1816, confirmed he was employed as an occasional Labourer earning 2/8d per day in the Engineers' Department, and that he was first employed by the Board on the 29th March 1806. He was a 59-year-old married man, who lived in Waltham Abbey. He had three children, two married and one unmarried.. 4. These details were updated by WO54/520 dated the 20th February 1817, and his pay was given as 2/4d per day.