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Biography:

1. William Godwin was Apprenticed to the Master Bricklayer and paid 6/-d per week, according to Return WO54/512 dated September 1812. 2. WO54/516 dated February 1816, recorded that William was an 18-year-old Waltham Abbey lad who started as an Apprentice to the Master Bricklayer on the 19th August 1811. He was paid 6/-d per week, as he was in 1817 and early 1818, but June 1818, his pay was increased to 6/4d per week (WO54/524 of the 25th June 1818). 3. With his Apprenticeship completed, William was then employed as a Bricklayer "occasionally as the service requires" and paid 4/1d per day. His age was given as 21 (WO54/528 dated the 19th May 1819). 4. List of Employees dated the 13th September 1820 ( WO54/532) confirmed that William was still employed as a Bricklayer. He was then 22, still lived in Waltham Abbey and was single. He still earned 4/1d per day and was employed only "occasionally as the Service requires." 5. WO54/536 dated the 2nd April 1821, recorded that he was then 23 years of age and still single. His terms of employment, etc. remained unchanged.