Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Romford Union, Essex, 1861
In 1861, the Poor Law Board published a return of the name every adult pauper who had been a workhouse inmate for a continuous period of five years or more, together with the duration of their residence (in years and months), the reason for it, and whether they had been brought up in a District or separate Workhouse School. It was noted that the term 'District School' had been widely misinterpreted by respondents as meaning any school in the local area, such as a national or private school, and that there was only one instance in the whole report of an inmate actually having been in such a school.
Name | Yrs | ms. | Reason | School |
---|---|---|---|---|
Thomas Whitby | 12 | 0 | Disabled by accident | no. |
Thomas Wakelin | 15 | 0 | Weak intellect | yes. |
Henry Merrifield | 7 | 0 | Want of employment | no. |
Samuel Kemp | 20 | 0 | Imbecility of mind and body | no. |
William Priest | 9 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
Bernard Hall | 10 | 0 | Bad health | no. |
William Crease | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Howe | 7 | 0 | Crippled | no. |
William Rolfe | 8 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
William Dowsett | 5 | 0 | Gout | no. |
Isabella Unwin | 10 | 0 | Widow | no. |
Ann Edgely | 6 | 0 | Weakness of intellect | yes. |
Sophia Merchant | 7 | 0 | Deserted by husband | no. |
Susan Young | 17 | 0 | Weakness of intellect | no. |
Charlotte Rainbow | 7 | 0 | Bad health | no. |
Frances Hubbard | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ellen Gates | 20 | 0 | Weakness of intellect | no. |
Ann Carter | 20 | 0 | Widow | no. |
Sophia Brown | 20 | 0 | Imbecility | no. |
Sarah Ramsay | 5 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
Mary Wells | 20 | 0 | Bad health | no. |
Esther Delahunt | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Ramsden | 6 | 0 | Widow | no. |
Ellen Bolster | 7 | 0 | Bad health | no. |
Susan Wood | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Keeble | 19 | 0 | Widow | no. |
Sarah Roper | 11 | 0 | Weakness of intellect | yes. |
Susan King | 5 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Rebecca Parish | 15 | 0 | Weakness of intellect | no. |
Elizabeth Hobbs | 17 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Slade | 9 | 0 | Sickness | no. |
Walter Lamming | 6 | 0 | Bad health | no. |
Thomas Martin | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Benjamin Ellis | 5 | 0 | Disabled by accident | no. |
Robert Sizer | 7 | 0 | Bad health | no. |
Thomas Judd | 20 | 0 | Want of employment | no. |
William Vincent | 10 | 0 | Disabled by accident | no. |
John Richards | 7 | 0 | Bad health | no. |
Daniel Hicks | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Cook | 10 | 0 | Fractured skull | no. |
Edward Williams | 11 | 0 | Bad health | no. |
Thomas Boreham | 15 | 0 | A deformed cripple | no. |
Thomas Sutton | 20 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
Edward Harvey | 11 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
James Young | 6 | 0 | Disabled by accident | no. |
Joseph Lawing | 5 | 0 | Bad health | no. |
Thomas Grocock | 20 | 0 | A disabled seaman | no. |
William Barnes | 5 | 0 | Mental imbecility | no. |
Samuel Chapman | 20 | 0 | Broken knees | no. |
William Bennett | 5 | 0 | Loss of arm | no. |
Frederick Gooch | 6 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
John Apple | 16 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
Thomas Scarborough | 17 | 0 | Infirmity | yes. |
Joseph Miller | 14 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
James Chapman | 6 | 0 | Bad health | no. |
Philip Palmer | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Hunt | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
James Monk | 9 | 0 | Age and infirmity. | no. |
Susan Barrett | 15 | 0 | Bad health | no. |
Mary Warren | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
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