WAPP - Waltham Abbey Personnel Project

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Biography:

1. Thomas Baker started an Apprenticeship under his father, John Baker, the Master Refiner, in the Refining House on the 1st February 1797, with pay of 3/6d per week. The same document recorded that he was also a Private in the Volunteer Company (Supply 5/219 dated September 1798) 2. Although his pay was 1/6d per day, it is stated in a document dated the 8th May 1804 (Supply 5/222) that "one day extra allowed for week agreeable to the Board's Order - 12th March, 1801." 3. Thomas was a Refiner in the Saltpetre House with pay of 2/-d per day according to Supply 5/224 dated the 30th January 1806, and had by that date nearly 9 years' service in total.