WAPP - Waltham Abbey Personnel Project

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Biography:

1. Michael Martin was Office Keeper in the Engineers' Department, and was paid 2/8d per day. (WO54/512 dated September 1812). 2. WO54/516 dated February 1816, confirmed he was employed as the Office Keeper in the Engineers' Office earning 2/8d per day, and that he was first employed by the Board on the 29th March 1806. He was a 60-year-old widower living in Waltham Abbey with four married children, and had had no other trade. 3. Updated by WO54/520 dated the 28th February 1817, Michael Martin's pay was then 2/4d per day. All other details remained the same. 4. WO54/524 dated the 11th April 1818, confirmed he was still employed as the Office Keeper in the Engineers' Department and still paid 2/4d per day. This was also the case in 1819 (WO54/528 dated the 19th May 1819).