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Name: William Hounsom

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Marital Status: Single

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Subject: List of Artificers etc., their Marital Status and number of Children

Document Date: 08/05/1801

PRO Reference: Supply 5/221

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1. William Housom was employed as a Labourer at the Cylinder Houses in Sussex earning 1/6d per day (Supply 5/221 dated the 8th May 1801). The same document recorded that since the cylinders had been out of repair, Hounsom had been employed in stacking timber in the yards and levelling and preparing the ground where the cylinders were to be resited 2. According to the List of Foremen, Artificers and Labourers (Supply 5/224 dated the 30th January 1806) although possibly given notice to leave in 1802, William returned to work on the cylinders in 1803. He earned 2/-d per day, and, according to this Return, at that date he had 3 years' service. 3. At the 18th June 1807 (Supply 5/226) Mr. Hounsom was still employed as a Cylinder Man on the same pay, as he was on the 23rd August 1808 (Supply 5/227). 4. Supply 5/228 dated the 1st September 1810, confirmed Hounsom was still employed as a Cylinder Man at 2/-d per day. 5. Although still a Cylinder Man on the 29th August 1812 (Supply 5/229), William's pay had then increased to 2/8d per day. 6. Supply 5/230 dated the 13th February 1814, confirmed that William was still a Cylinder Man at 2/8d per day.