WAPP - Waltham Abbey Personnel Project

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Biography:

1. John Knight was a common Labourer who was paid 17/-d for work carried out by the Engineers' Department in the Manufactory between the 15th and 21st July 1809 (Supply 5/228 of the 21st July 1809). 2. WO54/512 dated September 1812 recorded that John was an occasional Labourer in the Engineers' Department, earning 2/8d per day for a six-day week. 3. WO54/516 dated February 1816, confirmed he was employed as an occasional Labourer earning 2/8d per day in the Engineers' Department, and that he was first employed by the Board on the 29th March 1806. He was a 59-year-old married man living in Waltham Abbey, with two married children and one unmarried child, . 4. WO54/520 dated the 20th February 1817 recorded that Knight's pay was now only 2/4d per day, with all other details remaining unchanged. 5. WO54/524 dated 11th April 1818, confirmed that he was still employed as a Labourer "Occasionally as required" and still paid 2/4d per day. This was also the case in 1819 (WO54/528 dated the 19th May 1819).