1881 Census: Residents of Billericay Union Workhouse
| Name | Mar | Age | Sex | Relation | Occupation | Handicap | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staff | |||||||
| Robert DUNCAN | M | 58 | M | Head | Master Of Union Workhouse | Scotland | |
| Mary DUNCAN | M | 46 | F | Wife | Matron Of Union Workhouse | Mountnessing, Essex | |
| Elizabeth DUNCAN | 18 | F | Daur | Pupil Teacher Board School | Great Burstead, Essex | ||
| William DUNCAN | 17 | M | Son | At Home | Great Burstead, Essex | ||
| Robert DUNCAN | 16 | M | Son | Drapers Apprentice | Great Burstead, Essex | ||
| Helen DUNCAN | 13 | F | Daur | Scholar | Great Burstead, Essex | ||
| Frederick DUNCAN | 11 | M | Son | Scholar | Great Burstead, Essex | ||
| Edward DUNCAN | 8 | M | Son | Scholar | Great Burstead, Essex | ||
| Samuel SILCOCKS | W | 64 | M | Servant | Schoolmaster Of Workhouse | Road, Somerset | |
| Henrietta WILKINS | U | 33 | F | Servant | Nurse Of Workhouse | Harrow On Hill, Surrey | |
| John BRACE | U | 38 | M | Servant | Porter Of Workhouse | Jersey, Channel Islands | |
| Inmates | |||||||
| Alice AGER | 3 | F | Inmate | Great Burstead, Essex | |||
| Emma AGER | U | 25 | F | Inmate | General Servant Domestic | Ramsden Bellhouse, Essex | |
| Louisa AGER | 9 | F | Inmate | Scholar | Great Burstead, Essex | ||
| James AYLETT | M | 76 | M | Inmate | Formerly Ag Lab | Mountnessing, Essex | |
| Charlotte AYLITT | M | 71 | F | Inmate | W Of Ag Lab | Mountnessing, Essex | |
| Sophia BAKER | U | 20 | F | Inmate | Daur Of Ag Lab | Great Burstead, Essex | |
| Richard BARNARD | 12 | M | Inmate | Scholar | Brentwood, Essex | ||
| William BARNARD | W | 79 | M | Inmate | Formerly Shepherd | Great Baddow, Essex | |
| William BASS | U | 40 | M | Inmate | Ag Lab | Great Burstead, Essex | |
| Charles BASTICK | U | 66 | M | Inmate | Formerly Hurdle Maker | Mountnessing, Essex | |
| Benjamin BAYFORD | 12 | M | Inmate | Great Burstead, Essex | |||
| Charlotte BAYFORD | U | 26 | F | Inmate | Gen Serv Domestic | Laindon, Essex | |
| Emily BAYFORD | U | 21 | F | Inmate | Gen Servant Domestic | Laindon, Essex | |
| Mary BIRD | 10 | F | Inmate | Scholar | Brentwood, Essex | ||
| Mary BOURNS | U | 32 | F | Inmate | ... Hawker | Ireland | |
| Thomas BOWEN | W | 83 | M | Inmate | Formerly A Fishmonger | St Mary, Shropshire | |
| Elizabeth BRAGG | M | 40 | F | Inmate | Imbecile | Great Burstead, Essex | |
| Joseph BRAND | W | 79 | M | Inmate | Formerly Ag Lab | Orsett, Essex | |
| Alice BRAYBROOK | 10 | F | Inmate | Scholar | Ramsden Crays, Essex | ||
| Caroline BRAYBROOK | 8 | F | Inmate | Scholar | Ramsden Crays, Essex | ||
| Maria BRAYBROOK | 7 | F | Inmate | Scholar | Ramsden Crays, Essex | ||
| Maria BRAYBROOK | M | 36 | F | Inmate | Wife Of Ag Lab | Great Totham, Essex | |
| Elizabeth BUDD | U | 25 | F | Inmate | Blind | Brentwood, Essex | |
| James BURDICK | U | 40 | M | Inmate | Ag Lab | Great Burstead, Essex | |
| John BURK | U | 26 | M | Inmate | Formerly Ag Lab | Blind | London, Middlesex |
| Joseph BURNETT | U | 76 | M | Inmate | Formerly Farm Lab | Great Warley, Essex | |
| Elizabeth BURRELL | U | 19 | F | Inmate | General Servant Domestic | Great Burstead, Essex | |
| Frederick BURRELL | 2 | M | Inmate | Great Burstead, Essex | |||
| Julia BURRELL | 2 | F | Inmate | Great Burstead, Essex | |||
| Lucy BURRELL | U | 41 | F | Inmate | General Servant Domestic | Great Burstead, Essex | |
| Arthur BURY | U | 48 | M | Inmate | Travelling Tinman | Sudbury, Suffolk | |
| Henry BUSH | U | 57 | M | Inmate | Chelsea Pensioner | Brentwood, Essex | |
| William BUSH | U | 51 | M | Inmate | Formerly Baker | Brentwood, Essex | |
| Thomas BYFORD | U | 70 | M | Inmate | Formerly Hay Binder | Imbecile | South Weald, Essex |
| John CARTER | U | 68 | M | Inmate | Ag Lab | Runwell, Essex | |
| John CARTER | U | 78 | M | Inmate | Ag Lab | Rayleigh, Essex | |
| Ernest CHANDLER | 13 | M | Inmate | Scholar | Brentwood, Essex | ||
| Simon CHURCH | W | 76 | M | Inmate | Formerly Ag Lab | Leigh, Essex | |
| Emma COLE | W | 47 | F | Inmate | Eastwood, Essex | ||
| George COOCH | W | 76 | M | Inmate | Formerly Ag Lab | Great Burstead, Essex | |
| Thomas COX | W | 73 | M | Inmate | Formerly House Painter | Coggeshall, Essex | |
| William COX | W | 80 | M | Inmate | Formerly Ag Lab | Ramsden Crays, Essex | |
| Mary CROSBY | U | 55 | F | Inmate | Imbecile | ||
| John CURTIS | U | 67 | M | Inmate | Formerly Hostler | Windsor, Berkshire | |
| Charles CUTTS | W | 83 | M | Inmate | Formerly Ag Lab | Mountnessing, Essex | |
| John DALE | W | 77 | M | Inmate | Formerly Ag Lab | Ramsden Bellhouse, Essex | |
| Thomas DAVEY | U | 63 | M | Inmate | Drover Unemployed | Shenfield, Essex | |
| Frederick DODD | 10 | M | Inmate | Scholar | Great Burstead, Essex | ||
| Sarah DODD | U | 32 | F | Inmate | General Servant Domestic | Chelmsford, Essex | |
| John ECKWORTH | U | 75 | M | Inmate | Formerly Ag Lab | Mountnessing, Essex | |
| John ELY | W | 75 | M | Inmate | Formerly A Brick Maker | Hertford, Hertford | |
| George EVERETT | M | 70 | M | Inmate | Formerly Ag Lab | Great Burstead, Essex | |
| Mary Ann EVERETT | M | 66 | F | Inmate | W Of Ag Lab | Little Burstead, Essex | |
| Mary Ann FAIRCHILD | W | 75 | F | Inmate | Formerly Laundress | Stapleford Abbotts, Essex | |
| Maria FEWELL | U | 56 | F | Inmate | Imbecile | Ingrave, Essex | |
| Sarah FOLEY | W | 71 | F | Inmate | Formerly Nurse | Newington, Middlesex | |
| John FRANKLIN | W | 67 | M | Inmate | Formerly Ag Lab | Blind | Wickford, Essex |
| William FRASER | U | 44 | M | Lodger | Gas Fitter | Scotland | |
| George GEE | U | 58 | M | Inmate | Shoemaker | Northampton | |
| Mary GOULD | W | 80 | F | Inmate | Widow Of Ag Lab | Little Warley, Essex | |
| William GREEN | U | 54 | M | Lodger | Wood Turner | Norwich, Norfolk | |
| Caroline HARRIS | U | 16 | F | Inmate | Brentwood, Essex | ||
| Edward HARROD | 13 | M | Inmate | Scholar | Pitsea, Essex | ||
| Emily HARROD | U | 18 | F | Inmate | Imbecile | Pitsea, Essex | |
| Mary HARROD | 11 | F | Inmate | Scholar | Pitsea, Essex | ||
| Sarah HAYDON | W | 72 | F | Inmate | Hornchurch, Essex | ||
| Hannah HICKS | M | 60 | F | Inmate | W Of Wheelwright | Great Burstead, Essex | |
| John HOLLOWAY | W | 70 | M | Inmate | Blind | Little Burstead, Essex | |
| Ada HOWARTH | 5 | F | Inmate | Scholar | Shenfield, Essex | ||
| Alma HOWARTH | 9 | F | Inmate | Scholar | Shenfield, Essex | ||
| Inkllman HOWARTH | 7 | M | Inmate | Scholar | Shenfield, Essex | ||
| Lilly HOWARTH | 3 | F | Inmate | Shenfield, Essex | |||
| Alice HYMAS | 4 | F | Inmate | Great Burstead, Essex | |||
| Caroline HYMAS | U | 30 | F | Inmate | Great Burstead, Essex | ||
| George HYMAS | U | 54 | M | Inmate | Ag Lab | Basildon, Essex | |
| Josiah HYMAS | 10 | M | Inmate | Scholar | Great Burstead, Essex | ||
| Louisa HYMAS | 11 | F | Inmate | Idiot | Great Burstead, Essex | ||
| Sarah HYMAS | U | 39 | F | Inmate | Daur Of Ag Lab | Imbecile | Great Burstead, Essex |
| William HYMAS | 1m | M | Inmate | Great Burstead, Essex | |||
| John JARMAN | U | 70 | M | Inmate | Formerly Bricklayer | Brentwood, Essex | |
| Abraham JIGGINS | 12 | M | Inmate | Scholar | Brentwood, Essex | ||
| Ann JOYCE | W | 82 | F | Inmate | Formerly Laundress | Scarborough, York | |
| Joseph KEELING | U | 33 | M | Inmate | Formerly Ag Lab | Mountnessing, Essex | |
| Ann KELLY | U | 32 | F | Inmate | Imbecile | Great Burstead, Essex | |
| Henry KEMP | U | 71 | M | Inmate | Formerly Osler | East Horndon, Essex | |
| Elizabeth KETCHER | 9 | F | Inmate | Scholar | Great Burstead, Essex | ||
| Sarah KETCHER | U | 39 | F | Inmate | Laundress | Laindon, Essex | |
| John LAZELL | W | 83 | M | Inmate | Formerly Ag Lab | Ramsden Crays, Essex | |
| Alfred LEACH | 16 | M | Inmate | London, Surrey | |||
| Richard LEACH | U | 52 | M | Inmate | Formery Ag Lab | Mountnessing, Essex | |
| Charlotte LOU | W | 79 | F | Inmate | Widow Of Ag Lab | Hutton, Essex | |
| Thomas LOW | U | 47 | M | Inmate | Shoemaker | Laindon, Essex | |
| Jonathan MADDOCKS | U | 60 | M | Inmate | Imbecile | Woodham Walter, Essex | |
| William MADDOX | M | 69 | M | Inmate | Ag Lab | Doddinghurst, Essex | |
| Sarah MARLTON | W | 79 | F | Inmate | Formerly Nurse | London, Middlesex | |
| Sarah MARLTON | U | 48 | F | Inmate | Imbecile | Brentwood, Essex | |
| Charles MARSH | W | 66 | M | Inmate | Formerly Lawyer | Great Burstead, Essex | |
| James MARSH | W | 74 | M | Inmate | Formerly Grocers Porter | Great Burstead, Essex | |
| George MARSHALL | W | 65 | M | Inmate | Formerly Ag Lab | Thaxted, Suffolk | |
| Joseph MARSHALL | M | 78 | M | Inmate | Formerly Ag Lab | Downham, Essex | |
| William MARSHALL | U | 36 | M | Lodger | W... Worker | Yarmouth, Norfolk | |
| Thomas MARTIN | U | 73 | M | Inmate | Ag Lab | Rayleigh, Essex | |
| Ann MASON | 9 | F | Inmate | Scholar | Rettendon, Essex | ||
| Emma MASON | 6 | F | Inmate | Scholar | Rettendon, Essex | ||
| Sarah MASON | M | 33 | F | Inmate | Wife Of Ag Lab | South Hanningfield, Essex | |
| Peter MEADOWCROFT | W | 76 | M | Inmate | Formerly Ag Lab | Arstly, Lancashire | |
| Albert MEYAN | 3 | M | Inmate | Ramsden Bellhouse, Essex | |||
| Annie MEYAN | 14 | F | Inmate | Scholar | Ramsden Bellhouse, Essex | ||
| Ellen MEYAN | 7 | F | Inmate | Scholar | Ramsden Bellhouse, Essex | ||
| Hannah MEYAN | 6 | F | Inmate | Scholar | Ramsden Bellhouse, Essex | ||
| John MEYAN | 5 | M | Inmate | Scholar | Ramsden Bellhouse, Essex | ||
| William MEYAN | W | 51 | M | Inmate | Ag Lab Unemployed | Ramsden Bellhouse, Essex | |
| William MEYAN | 15 | M | Inmate | Scholar | Ramsden Bellhouse, Essex | ||
| George MILLINGTON | U | 71 | M | Inmate | Formerly Bricklayers Lab | Great Burstead, Essex | |
| Henry MILLS | U | 61 | M | Inmate | Formerly Hostler | Witham, Essex | |
| Emma MUKBREAD | U | 23 | F | Inmate | General Servant Domestic | Grays, Essex | |
| Daniel MURELL | U | 46 | M | Inmate | Formerly Ag Lab | Felstead, Essex | |
| Ernest MUSKER | U | 20 | M | Lodger | Oil Cake Maker | Lyner, Norfolk | |
| James NASH | U | 51 | M | Inmate | Gen Lab | Great Burstead, Essex | |
| George NOAKES | U | 62 | M | Inmate | Formerly Carrier | Gosfield, Essex | |
| Charlotte NOLAN | W | 33 | F | Inmate | Widow Of General Lab | Bradwell, Essex | |
| Elizabeth OAKLEY | W | 77 | F | Inmate | Widow Of Chelsea Pensioner | Buttsbury, Essex | |
| Emma OLIFF | W | 37 | F | Inmate | Widow Of Ag Lab | Great Burstead, Essex | |
| Charles OSBORN | W | 71 | M | Inmate | Formerly House Carpenter | Witham, Essex | |
| Webb OVERHEAD | W | 67 | M | Inmate | Formerly Cooper | Brentwood, Essex | |
| Easy PEASE | W | 74 | M | Inmate | Formerly Ag Lab | Colchester, Essex | |
| Alice PHILBRICK | U | 19 | F | Inmate | Imbecile | Forest Hill, Kent | |
| Emily PHILBRICK | M | 45 | F | Inmate | Wife Of Ag Lab | Chelmsford, Essex | |
| Isabella PHILBRICK | 13 | F | Inmate | Scholar | Upper Norwood, Surrey | ||
| Mary PHILBRICK | 10 | F | Inmate | Scholar | Laindon, Essex | ||
| Sarah PLATT | 3 | F | Inmate | Idiot | Great Burstead, Essex | ||
| Sarah PLATT | U | 33 | F | Inmate | Great Burstead, Essex | ||
| Samuel POLLEY | W | 79 | M | Inmate | Formerly Ag Lab | Stock, Essex | |
| Sarah PORTER | W | 71 | F | Inmate | W Of Jobbing Gardiner | Brentwood, Essex | |
| Sarah POTTER | M | 80 | F | Inmate | Wife Of Ag Lab | Rayleigh, Essex | |
| Clara PUDNEY | 8 | F | Inmate | Scholar | East Horndon, Essex | ||
| Harry PUDNEY | U | 80 | M | Inmate | Formerly Ag Lab | East Horndon, Essex | |
| Kate PUDNEY | 6 | F | Inmate | Scholar | East Horndon, Essex | ||
| William PUDNEY | 10 | M | Inmate | Scholar | East Horndon, Essex | ||
| James REEVE | U | 40 | M | Lodger | Ag Lab | Dunmow, Essex | |
| James ROACH | W | 72 | M | Inmate | Formerly Reedlayer | Vange, Essex | |
| James ROACH | M | 41 | M | Inmate | Formerly A Cabman | Brentwood, Essex | |
| Alfred ROBINSON | 13 | M | Inmate | Scholar | Heybridge, Essex | ||
| Annie ROBINSON | 10 | F | Inmate | Scholar | Heybridge, Essex | ||
| Elizabeth ROLPH | W | 94 | F | Inmate | Widow Of Ag Lab | Writtle, Essex | |
| David SEWELL | 12 | M | Inmate | Formerly Scholar | Pitsea, Essex | ||
| Henry SEWELL | 7 | M | Inmate | Scholar | Pitsea, Essex | ||
| Mary Ann SHELDON | W | 60 | F | Inmate | Widow Of Ag Lab | Blackmore, Essex | |
| John SMITH | U | 75 | M | Inmate | Formerly Farm Lab | East Hanningfield, Essex | |
| John SMITH | U | 33 | M | Inmate | Ag Lag | Upminster, Essex | |
| Thomas SMITH | U | 27 | M | Lodger | Gaswork Lab | Farnham, Surrey | |
| William STEBBING | W | 95 | M | Inmate | Formerly Ag Lab | Great Waltham, Essex | |
| James STEVENS | W | 79 | M | Inmate | Formerly Ag Lab | Imbecile | Dunton, Essex |
| James STOKLEY | U | 82 | M | Inmate | Formerly Brickmaker | Hornchurch, Essex | |
| James STONE | U | 79 | M | Inmate | Formerly Farm Lab | Blackmore, Essex | |
| Joseph STONE | U | 37 | M | Inmate | Ag Lab | Fryerning, Essex | |
| Sarah SUTTON | W | 65 | F | Inmate | Formerly Wife Of Hostler | Hornchurch, Essex | |
| William SWAN | U | 45 | M | Inmate | Imbecile | Laindon, Essex | |
| Jane TANNER | W | 75 | F | Inmate | Formerly Wife Of Ag Lab | Deptford, Kent | |
| Joseph THEOBALD | U | 65 | M | Inmate | Ag Lab Unemployed | Black Notley, Essex | |
| Esther THOMAS | W | 64 | F | Inmate | Formerly Tailoress | London, Middlesex | |
| William TODD | U | 25 | M | Inmate | Tailor (Unemployed) | Scotland | |
| Emily TOWNSEND | 11 | F | Inmate | Scholar | Liverpool, Lancashire | ||
| John TOWNSEND | 2 | M | Inmate | Basildon, Essex | |||
| Sarah TOWNSEND | M | 31 | F | Inmate | Wife Of Ag Lab | Ireland | |
| Sarah TOWNSEND | 4 | F | Inmate | Scholar | Liverpool, Lancashire | ||
| William TOWNSEND | 5m | M | Inmate | Great Burstead, Essex | |||
| Susan TUNBRIDGE | U | 34 | F | Inmate | Gen Serv Domestic | London, Middlesex | |
| Daniel TURNER | W | 74 | M | Inmate | Formerly Ag Lab | Little Yeldham, Essex | |
| Timothy TURPIN | W | 75 | M | Inmate | Formerly Bricklayers Lab | Brentwood, Essex | |
| Robert TWINN | U | 68 | M | Inmate | Formerly Baker | Brentwood, Essex | |
| Samuel VINCE | W | 79 | M | Inmate | Formerly Ag Lab | St Osyth, Essex | |
| Ann WALKER | U | 41 | F | Inmate | Downham, Essex | ||
| Mary WALKER | W | 74 | F | Inmate | Downham, Essex | ||
| William WARD | U | 45 | M | Inmate | Blacksmith | Monewdon, Suffolk | |
| William WARDEN | U | 73 | M | Inmate | Formerly Ag Lab | Hutton, Essex | |
| Elizabeth WHITBREAD | 3m | F | Inmate | Gt Burstead, Essex | |||
| Ann WHITE | W | 69 | F | Inmate | Formerly Dressmaker | Ireland | |
| William WHITE | W | 62 | M | Inmate | House Carpenter | Hutton, Essex | |
| Ruth WILKS | U | 11 | F | Inmate | Scholar | Mountnessing, Essex | |
| Thomas WILLSON | 9 | M | Inmate | Scholar | Brentwood, Essex | ||
| William WILLY | U | 52 | M | Inmate | Imbecile | Mountnessing, Essex | |
| John WOOD | U | 61 | M | Inmate | Ag Lab Unemployed | Kelvedon, Essex | |
| Hannah WOOLARD | W | 77 | F | Inmate | Widow Of Ag Lab | South Hanningfield, Essex | |
| Ellen WORICKER | 15 | F | Inmate | Ramsden Crays, Essex | |||
| Martha WORICKER | M | 36 | F | Inmate | Wife Of Ag Lab | Lunatic | Ramsden Crays, Essex |
| James WRIGHT | W | 66 | M | Inmate | Formerly Carpenter | Great Burstead, Essex |
Total residents: 198
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