Biography:
1. John Lording joined the Engineers' Department on the 13th July 1810 as an Apprentice Millwright. He earned 2/2d per day for 313 days, giving him an annual amount of £33.18.2d. His period of service at that date was 11 years, and he was a 33-year-old married man, with 4 children (WO54/587 dated the 1st April 1833).
2. WO54/593 dated 1st April 1834 confirmed that John still earned £33.18.2d per annum, that he had served nearly 13 years and that his age was 33.
3. WO54/623 dated the 1st October 1839 confirmed that Lording joined the Engineers' Department on the 13th July 1810 as an Apprentice Millwright. In 1839, he was was working as a Labourer and paid 2/2d per day, with estimated annual pay of £33.18.2d. At that date he was a 39-year-old married man with 5 children, living in Waltham Abbey who had 22 years' service. He left the Mills at Waltham Abbey for London where he commanded a higher wage.
4. A Return of Properties owned by the Board prepared by the Royal Engineer's Office on the 20th December 1834, recorded that William Bunce had died, and that it was proposed to let his cottage to John Lording, Labourer (Supply 5/237). The cottage was shown as Tenement No. 54 on the Town Map in Appendix 1. A similar Return for May 1840, showed that his cottage was then let to a J. Davy
