Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Clerkenwell, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah Dunkley | 7 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Susan Brooks | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Davis | 16 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Susan Wright | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Margaret Duff | 15 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
| Susannah Rawlings | 9 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
| Caroline Able | 9 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Mary Harrow | 6 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
| Mary Gibbons | 20 | 0 | Insane | no. |
| Mary Bailey | 12 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
| Jane Plummer | 12 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
| Mary Gray | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Catharine Tulk | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Eliza Morris | 20 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| Elizabeth Venour | 6 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
| Sophia Bedford | 6 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
| Elizabeth Dent | 6 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
| Mary Hughes | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Watts | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Jane Fookes | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Jane Higgins | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Catharine Watkins | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Seymour | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Jane Watson | 6 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
| Caroline Wheel | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Jane Willey | 7 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
| Hannah Green | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Ann Bolton | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Ann Richards | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Eleanor Silvester | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Boys | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Gilbert | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Hannah Judwine | 6 | 0 | ditIo | no. |
| Elizabeth Cleghorn | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ellen Hare | 9 | 0 | Permanently lame | no. |
| Harriet Keates | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Jane Brown | 19 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Martha Ashton | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Major | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Jones | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Jane Crockford | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Charles Ward | 17 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| Ann Lewis | 7 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Isabella White | 5 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
| Mary Matthews | 5 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
| Sophia Pitt | 5 | 6 | Permanently lame | no. |
| Letitia Adams | 13 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
| Jane Lockwood | 14 | 0 | Insane | no. |
| Matilda Peeling | 18 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Fletcher | 26 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Harriet Penning | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Jane King | 11 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Elizabeth Wright | 20 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
| Sarah Butler | 6 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
| Ann Crockford | 6 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
| Esther Hart | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Gunningham | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Young | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Eliza Jordan | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Matilda Cave | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Prime | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Dix | 12 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
| Martha Warren | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Eliia Cousins | 18 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Dobbins | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Rose Harradine | 6 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Margaret Boyton | 5 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
| Mary Collins | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Selward | 14 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| Thomas Syret | 20 | 0 | Insane | no. |
| John Cropper | 10 | 0 | Blind and lame | no. |
| Amos Esquilant | 7 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| William Castle | 9 | 0 | Insane | no. |
| William Stringle | 6 | 0 | Subject to fits | no. |
| William Heatley | 6 | 0 | Blind | no. |
| Samuel Brown | 10 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
| William Williams | 13 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| William Warner | 9 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
| Richard Stringle | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Henry Boyden | 7 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| William Wilson | 17 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
| Samuel West | 20 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
| George Naden | 20 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
| John Slater | 11 | 0 | Permanently lame | no. |
| William Howard | 16 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
| Thomas Jarrett | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Smith | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Power | 40 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| George Linder | 20 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| William Jones | 6 | 0 | Permanently lame | no. |
| John Craighead | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Rowley Thelwell | 16 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
| Henry Helsdon | 5 | 0 | Permanently lame | no. |
| John Hart | 5 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| Benjamin Elliott | 14 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
| Elizabeth Dudley | 5 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
| Sarah Denton | 7 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| Elizabeth Bartholomew | 5 | 0 | ditto- | no. |
| Alice Davis | 5 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
| Ann Holden | 5 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
| Mary Buskin | 7 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| Elizabeth Brown | 11 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
| Mary Higgins | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Jones | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Morley | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Jane Priest | 9 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Ann Rivets Cowen | 20 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
| Mary Turrell | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Hines | 7 | 0 | Blind | no. |
| John Smith | 5 | 0 | Insane | no. |
| William Harwood | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| James Turner | 20 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
| Alfred Bilby | 11 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Thomas Fletcher | 7 | 0 | Nearly blind | no. |
| Thomas Millward | 8 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
| James Milman | 10 | 0 | Permanently lame | no. |
| William Carter | 20 | 0 | Ditto | no. |
| John Weatherhall | 7 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
| Christian Cook | 17 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
| George Rawle | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Stowe | 18 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Geddes | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Frederick Wells | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Gurney | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Jones | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Robert Boddington | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Barnett | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Osborne | 8 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
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