Biography:
1. Thomas Pratt was employed as a Millman circa 1804. He was earning 2/3d per day and had been employed with the Ordnance for 2 years (Supply 5/224 dated the 30th January 1806).
2. A Thomas Pratt was employed as a Punt Man according to Supply 5/226 dated the 18th of June 1807.
3. Pratt was still a Puntman in September 1810; he was paid 2/-d per day and allowed to watch in turn (Supply 5/228 dated the 1st September 1810).
4. Thomas may have joined the Engineers' Department, since a Thomas Pratt is recorded in WO54/516 dated February 1816 as an occasional Labourer earning 2/8d per day, and was first employed by that department on the 16th September 1815. He was a 46-year-old married man with 4 children, living in Waltham Abbey.