Long-term Workhouse Inmates in City of London Union, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Creamer | 10 | 7 | Infirmity | no. |
| Sarah Elmore | 10 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Martha Fidoe | 6 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| William Naylor | 9 | 9 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Westwood | 9 | 9 | ditto | no. |
| Catherine Wright | 5 | 3 | ditto | no. |
| William Avard | 7 | 11 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Avard | 7 | 11 | ditto | no. |
| John Brown | 8 | 9 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Mary Ann Briggs | 7 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| William Crane | 8 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Catherine Callender | 8 | 2 | ditto | no. |
| John Charlton | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas William Huttson | 10 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Joseph Munday | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| William Buxton | 8 | 10 | ditto | no. |
| Caroline Fenn | 10 | 6 | Imbecile | no. |
| William Pattison | 7 | 9 | Infirmity | no. |
| Charles Perring | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Eleanor Parry | 5 | 9 | ditto | no. |
| Stephen Sanderson | 5 | 8 | ditto | no. |
| James Franklin | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| James Lewis | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| John Cook | 8 | 4 | ditto | no. |
| Sophia Chandler | 5 | 3 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Overton | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Richard Prowse | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Prowse | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Smith | 6 | 2 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Adams | 6 | 11 | ditto | no. |
| Jane Cooksey | 7 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| James Kerridge | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Martin | 6 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Jones | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Smith | 8 | 6 | Imbecile | no. |
| Ann Powers | 10 | 6 | Infirmity | no. |
| Richard Barnes | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| James Lidgett | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Edward Morrison | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| George Bull | 10 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| William Brace | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Christiana Cooper | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| George Carpenter | 6 | 9 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Hollings | 6 | 4 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Hawkins | 10 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Nash | 6 | 10 | ditto | no. |
| Henry Pickering | 10 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Smith | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| William Tankard | 6 | 1 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Tippetts | 10 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Charles Williams | 9 | 9 | ditto | no. |
| Joseph Myall | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Southgate | 10 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| William Ware | 10 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| George Hutchins | 6 | 1 | ditto | no. |
| John Wood | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Adams | 6 | 5 | Nervous debility | no. |
| Ann Bowling | 10 | 2 | Infirmity | no. |
| Samuel Meek | 10 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| James Stratton | 10 | 5 | ditto | no. |
| Catherine Marshall | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Archibald Colville | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| William Bunting | 5 | 9 | ditto | no. |
| James Doufty | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Woof | 7 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Ann Welch | 6 | 1 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Haley | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Frederick Lee | 10 | 5 | Imbecile | no. |
| Caroline Debenham | 9 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Gutteridge | 9 | 5 | Infirmity | no. |
| Mary Cotten | 10 | 7 | Blind | no. |
| Elizabeth Gadsby | 9 | 2 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Short | 10 | 5 | Infirmity | no. |
| Elizabeth Wooldridge | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Arthur Jeffery | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| John Usin | 6 | 4 | ditto | no. |
| Clementina Mylrea | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Stevenson | 5 | 11 | ditto | no. |
| John Cox | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| John Mills | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Ann Smith | 10 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Alice Ward | 10 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah King | 10 | 3 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Merriman | 10 | 7 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Elizabeth Rochester | 10 | 6 | Infirmity | no. |
| Eleanor Allen | 10 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| William Burke | 7 | 4 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Burke | 5 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| James Herbert | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Lewis | 9 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Parker | 9 | 4 | ditto | no. |
| Jemima Sparks | 6 | 11 | ditto | no. |
| Frances Haydon | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Riley | 5 | 8 | ditto | no. |
| John Settwood | 7 | 2 | ditto | no. |
| Keziah Steers | 6 | 8 | Imbecile | no. |
| Nathaniel Buckey | 7 | 5 | Infirmity | no. |
| Margaret Eady | 10 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Lewis | 9 | 3 | ditto | no. |
| Catherine Shepherd | 10 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Henry Bays | 5 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| William Smith | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Esther Walker | 10 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Benton | 7 | 1 | ditto | no. |
| William McLellan | 9 | 4 | ditto | no. |
| Esther Bird | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Connor | 7 | 11 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Prior | 5 | 4 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Lock | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Wright | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Agnes Brown | 8 | 8 | ditto | no. |
| John Butcher | 8 | 8 | ditto | no. |
| William Boulton | 7 | 4 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Eaton | 7 | 4 | Paralysis | no. |
| Elizabeth Edwards | 7 | 4 | Infirmity | no. |
| George Evans | 10 | 5 | Nervous debility | no. |
| Thomas Lowe | 10 | 6 | Infirmity | no. |
| Margaret Reynolds | 8 | 2 | ditto | no. |
| Susanna Schmedlin | 6 | 8 | ditto | no. |
| Henry Westley | 5 | 5 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Neale | 9 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| John Compton | 5 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Hawkins | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Isabella Kendall | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Alexander Byrne | 6 | 2 | ditto | no. |
| Charlotte Clarke | 5 | 4 | Infirmity | no. |
| Sarah Fielder | 6 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Gundry | 9 | 2 | ditto | no. |
| Harriet Faulkner | 6 | 5 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Mahoney | 6 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Sidney Strong | 8 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| James Watkins | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Turvey | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Margaret Beverley | 10 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| John Bishop | 9 | 9 | Imbecile | no. |
| John Burrell | 7 | 6 | Epileptic fits | no. |
| John Ball | 6 | 8 | Infirmity | no. |
| Sarah Cook | 10 | 6 | Imbecile | no. |
| Titus Fryer | 10 | 6 | Infirmity- | no. |
| Sarah Beadle | 10 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Martha King | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Leigh | 9 | 9 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Earp | 8 | 11 | Imbecile | no. |
| Charlotte Headley | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Francis Leaver | 10 | 6 | Infirmity | no. |
| John Watkins | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| William White | 7 | 10 | ditto | no. |
| Catherine White | 5 | 2 | ditto | no. |
| Henry Burroughs | 7 | 10 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Holliday | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Henry Collup | 10 | 6 | Nervous debility | no. |
| Elizabeth Finch | 7 | 4 | Infirmity | no. |
| James Hitchcock | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| George Ward | 5 | 9 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Sarah Roberts | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Ann White | 6 | 1 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Frost | 5 | 9 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Dee | 9 | 4 | Imbecile | no. |
| Anne Maria Perkins | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Beeby | 9 | 7 | Blind | no. |
| Mary Ann McMahon | 9 | 8 | Imbecile | no. |
| Mary Catherine Sharp | 6 | 11 | Infirmity | no. |
| Martha Johnson | 6 | 11 | ditto | no. |
| Jane Elliott | 10 | 1 | ditto | no. |
| Henry Flayward | 9 | 7 | Weak intellect | no. |
| William Spinks | 5 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| Mary Mayer | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Isabella Graham | 10 | 7 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Ann Fluendy | 7 | 3 | Infirmity | no. |
| Henry Samuel Stokes | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Samuel Stokes | 10 | 6 | Imbecile | no. |
| Hannah Hickman | 7 | 6 | Infirmity | no. |
| Thomas Howard | 10 | 7 | Imbecile | no. |
| Elizabeth Franey | 10 | 6 | Infirmity | no. |
| Elizabeth Folkard | 8 | 1 | ditto | no. |
| Sophia Gordon | 6 | 10 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Ann Christopher | 8 | 9 | ditto | no. |
| Susan Balding | 10 | 6 | Weak intellect | no. |
| William Barber | 5 | 3 | Infirmity | no. |
| George Barr | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Bracknell | 10 | 8 | Imbecile | no. |
| Thomas Connor | 7 | 6 | Infirmity | no. |
| William Farrah | 6 | 11 | Imbecile | no. |
| Dorothy Girton | 9 | 8 | Infirmity | no. |
| Susan Haydon | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Margaret McCarthy | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Margaret Rafter | 8 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Rangely | 7 | 5 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Ann Simmons | 8 | 9 | Imbecile | no. |
| William Franks | 8 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| Jane Ann Roberts | 10 | 6 | Imbecile | no. |
| Jane Anderson | 10 | 6 | Infirmity | no. |
| Elizabeth Barnwell | 9 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| William Bonnick | 10 | 6 | Imbecile | no. |
| William Beckenham | 8 | 7 | Infirmity | no. |
| Charles Todd | 10 | 4 | Imbecile | no. |
| Henry Todd | 9 | 9 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Ann Barrett | 5 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| Margaret. Burns | 7 | 1 | ditto | no. |
| Robert Brind | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| George Foden | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Barnard Caffrey | 5 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Morley | 6 | 9 | ditto | no. |
| William Middleton | 6 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Samuel Oxford | 10 | 1 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Riley | 8 | 4 | Imbecile | no. |
| Martha Taylor | 8 | 1 | Infirmity | no. |
| Ann Wells | 7 | 5 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Walker | 5 | 3 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Ann West | 7 | 5 | Imbecile | no. |
| Edward Edwards | 10 | 6 | Infirmity | no. |
| Evan Jones | 6 | 3 | Imbecile | no. |
| Mary Ann Davis | 10 | 6 | Infirmity | no. |
| Annette Pritchard | 10 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
| Ann Burford | 7 | 2 | Infirmity | no. |
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