Biography:
1. Thomas Hayward had been trained as a Carpenter and Millwright and earned a total of £91.5.10d per annum. His service was given as 38 years, and he was a married man, aged 60, with 6 children (WO54/587 dated the 1st April 1833).
2. WO54/587 dated 1st October 1833, gave the same basic details as before, with his age and length of service updated.
3. WO54/593 dated 1st April 1834, confirmed that Thomas, Master Millwright, still earned a total of £91.5.10d per annum, that he was 61, and that his service at that date was 39 years.
4. A Return of Properties owned by the Board, dated the 20th December 1834 and prepared by the Royal Engineers' Office, recorded that Thomas Hayward had been renting one of their cottages since the 3rd June 1825 (Supply 5/237).
5. Thomas was trained as a Millwright and Carpenter and was on the 1795 Pay Return for the Engineers' Department, but no other details were recorded on the Return of Employees for October 1833 (WO54/587). He was appointed Master Carpenter within the Engineers' Department on the 23rd July 1806, and then Acting Foreman of Works on the 14th October 1834. His rate of pay in 1839 was 5/10d per day, and his estimated annual income was £91.11.8d. He lived in a house at the northen end of a row in Powder Mill Lane, for which he paid rent. He was a 66-year-old widower with 6 children, and had served for nearly 45 years (WO54/623 dated the 1st October 1839).
6. The 1841 Census confirmed that Thomas (1) lived in Powder Mill Lane with Eleanor Hayward (25) and Emma Hayward (4), that he was a Carpenter and that he was not born in the County.
