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Biography:

1. Daniel Allsup (senior) tarted work early in 1805 as a Dusting House Man earning 2/1d per day, according to the List of Foremen Artificers and Others Employed dated the 30th January 1806 (Supply 5/224). 2. List of Officers, Foremen and Artificers dated the 18th June 1807 (Supply 5/226), stated this was still the case at that date. However, in addition, Dusting House men were allowed to watch in turn, for which they received 1/-d. 3. According to the entry on Supply 5/227 dated the 23rd August 1808, Mr. Allsup was still employed as a Dusting House Man, then earning 2/3d per day, and "in addition to their pay, they are allowed to watch in turn, for which they receive one shilling." 4. Employee List (Supply 5/228 dated the 1st September 1810) stated that Mr. Allsup was still a Dusting House Man who was paid the same daily rate as before, but he then allowed to watch in turn for 1/6d night. 5. List of Employees dated the 29th August 1812 (Supply 5/229) stated that Daniel then earned 3/-d per day in the same job, and was still watching in turn at 1/6d. per night. 6. The previous information given was confirmed in the Return dated the 13th February 1814 (Supply 5/230). 7. On the 16th June 1808, the Board had purchased two tenements from a Miss Jones, on the north side of High Bridge Street, and the sketch map attached to the document clearly showed that they formed part of High Bank or Bank Cottages. The two tenants then in occupation were "Alsop and Aylin" (WO44/681A). A Statement of "monies to which the public were entitled to receive credit between the 1st January and the 31st December, 1821, shewing the amounts received by the storekeeper" dated the 4th April 1821 (Supply 5/232) recorded also that Daniel Allsup had been living in a house purchased by the Board of Ordnance on the 4th May. 1821, and that his rent was £8.9.0d per annum. The house, Tenement No. 26, has been identified as being at the western end of 5 cottages on the north side of High Bridge Street to the west of Powder Mill Lane, at the western end of a group of tenements known as Bank Cottages. (Part of Plot No. 1432 on the 1842 Waltham Abbey Tithe Map, or Plot No. 48 on the 1825 Waltham Abbey Town Map). The same information is repeated in Supply 5/232 dated the 16th February 1822 for the year 1821. 8. For further information on the Allsup family see WAGP by Huggins, pp.132-140.