WAPP - Waltham Abbey Personnel Project

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Biography:

1. Thomas Guinn (1) was employed as a Puntman who was paid 2/8d per day, as well as being allowed to watch in turn (Supply 5/229 dated the 29th August 1812). This information was repeated in Supply 5/230 dated the13th February 1814. 2. WO54/536 dated the 2nd April 1821, recorded that a Thomas Guinn was employed as a Labourer with the Engineers' Department on the 14th August, 1820 "occasionally as the services require". He was a 26-year-old married man with three children living in Waltham Abbey, and was then only paid 2/4d per day.