1881 Census: Residents of Colchester Union Workhouse
| Name | Mar | Age | Sex | Relation | Occupation | Handicap | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staff | |||||||
| George Henry SOMERVILLE | M | 44 | M | Master (Head) | Master (Munic) | Stafford | |
| Jane SOMERVILLE | M | 38 | F | Matron | Matron | Scotland | |
| Francis George SOMERVILLE | 12 | M | Son | Whitechurch, Shropshire | |||
| Lillie Jane SOMERVILLE | 11 | F | Daur | Whitechurch, Shropshire | |||
| Martha JAMES | U | 27 | F | Schoolmistress | Schoolmistress (M) | Ringwood, Hampshire | |
| Charles DENNY | U | 33 | M | Porter | Porter (Munic) | Dedham | |
| George CURRAN | U | 39 | M | Labr Master | Labour Master (Munic) | Ormaigh Antrim | |
| John Thomas CRISMAS | U | 25 | M | Baker | Baker | Colchester, Essex | |
| Louisa Caroline NUMAN | M | 36 | F | Cook | Cook | Winchester | |
| Ethel Cecialas MILLS | U | 31 | F | Laundress | Laundress | Colchester | |
| Annie GRIFFITHS | U | 37 | F | Nurse | Nurse (M) | Barbdoes | |
| Ellen GRAY | U | 48 | F | Nurse | Nurse (M) | London, London, Middlesex | |
| William DEE | W | 70 | M | Boys Caretaker | Boys Care Taker (Munic) | Colchester | |
| Margaret FRANCIS | W | 27 | F | Nurse | Nurse (M) | Canada | |
| Inmates | |||||||
| Mary Ann ABLEWHITE | 49 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Alexander ADAMS | 68 | M | Inmate | Banff, Scotland | |||
| Ann AGNES | 90 | F | Inmate | Needham Market, Suffolk | |||
| George AIREY | 37 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Sophia ANNES | 74 | F | Inmate | Gislingham, Suffolk | |||
| Alice ARCHER | 8 | F | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| John ARCHER | 71 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Alice ARNOLD | 10 | F | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| Elizabeth ARNOLD | 6 | F | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| Walter ARNOLD | 13 | M | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| Eliza ASHERWOOD | 83 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Harriett BANYARD | 70 | F | Inmate | Imbecile | Colchester | ||
| Alberd Adrian BARBER | 22 | M | Inmate | Imbecile | Colchester | ||
| Ernest BARBER | 6 | M | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| George BARBER | 76 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Louisa BARBER | 27 | F | Inmate | Greenwich | |||
| Robert BARBER | 5 | M | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| Thomas BARBER | 3 | M | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| William BARKER | 49 | M | Inmate | Stebbing, Essex | |||
| William BARTHOLOMEW | 10 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Robert BELL | 32 | M | Vagrant | Durham | |||
| Robert BENNETT | 76 | M | Inmate | Imbecile | Colchester | ||
| Henry BISHOP | 24 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| William James BITHEN | 11 | M | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| Annie BLAND | 6 | F | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| Arthur ? BLAND | 1 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| John BLAND | 69 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Mary Ann BLAND | 26 | F | Inmate | Ardleigh | |||
| Caroline BLYTH | 61 | F | Inmate | Wainford, Suffolk | |||
| Eliza BORRODELL | 71 | F | Inmate | Hersea | |||
| William BOYDEN | 10 | M | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| Charles BOYLES | 78 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Louisa BRANSOME | 11 | F | Scholar | Ipswich | |||
| William BROWNE | 83 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Albert BUEN | 13 | M | Scholar | Dedham | |||
| Annie BUEN | 6 | F | Scholar | Dedham | |||
| Emily BUEN | 12 | F | Scholar | Dedham | |||
| William John BUEN | 8 | M | Scholar | Dedham | |||
| George BURROWS | 11 | M | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| John BURROWS | 13 | M | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| Martha BURROWS | 82 | F | Inmate | Sheerness | |||
| Maria BUSK | 68 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Ada BUTCHER | 17 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Sarah BUTCHER | 11 | F | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| Henry BYFORD | 62 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| John CANNELL | 70 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| James CARTER | 63 | M | Inmate | Imbecile | Colchester | ||
| Mary Ann CHILDS | 39 | F | Inmate | Imbecile | Colchester | ||
| Ellen CLARK | 11 | F | Scholar | Ashington, Suffolk | |||
| Martha CLARK | 13 | F | Scholar | Ashington, Suffolk | |||
| Sarah CLARK | 70 | F | Inmate | Ipswich | |||
| Albert Edward CLARKE | 6 | M | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| Robert George CLARKE | 8 | M | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| Susannah CLARKE | 35 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| William CLARKE | 73 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Nelson COATES | 78 | M | Inmate | Great Holland, Essex | |||
| George COLE | 53 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Daniell CONSTABLE | 76 | M | Inmate | West Bergolt | |||
| Elizabeth CORNWALL | 62 | F | Inmate | Kerry, Ireland | |||
| Ellen Eliza COWELL | 27 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| William COWELL | 39 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Samuel CRESSWELL | 76 | M | Inmate | Boxtead, Suffolk | |||
| Amelia CULLEN | 14 | F | Scholar | London, London, Middlesex | |||
| Eliza CURRELL | 60 | F | Inmate | Leicester | |||
| James CUTHBERT | 25 | M | Inmate | Imbecile | Colchester | ||
| Hannah DAKINS | 61 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Charlotte Harriett DANSEY | 6m | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Emily Ann DANSEY | 6m | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Elizabeth MC DERMOTT | 22 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| William DIGBY | 81 | M | Inmate | Boreham | |||
| Mary DINES | 85 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Rebecca DINES | 86 | F | Inmate | Ipswich | |||
| William DURRANT | 64 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Harriett DYER | 34 | F | Inmate | Imbecile | Colchester | ||
| Sophia EAST | 60 | F | Inmate | Imbecile | Colchester | ||
| James ELLIS | 35 | M | Vagrant | North Walsham | |||
| Frederick Alfred EMMENS | 39 | M | Inmate | Lunatic | Exminster, Devon | ||
| Mary Ann EUSTACE | 19 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Alfred FAIRES | 20 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Robert FANNING | 61 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Charles FARREN | 16 | M | Inmate | Imbecile | Colchester | ||
| Joseph FARREN | 52 | M | Inmate | Imbecile | Colchester | ||
| Naomi FARREN | 39 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Timothy FARREN | 75 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Louisa FELTON | 54 | F | Inmate | Ardleigh | |||
| Henry FENN | 54 | M | Inmate | Ardleigh | |||
| Mary Ann FINCHAM | 62 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Hannah FISHER | 84 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| William FLOTT | 18 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Sarah FOSTER | 75 | F | Inmate | Bentley, Suffolk | |||
| Alfred FROST | 40 | M | Inmate | Woodbridge, Suffolk | |||
| Eliza FROST | 39 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Henry John FROST | 13 | M | Scholar | Oxford | |||
| James FROST | 6 | M | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| Mary FROST | 89 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| William FULLER | 25 | M | Vagrant | Cambridge | |||
| Michael Cooper GODDEN | 55 | M | Inmate | Polstead, Suffolk | |||
| Mary Ann GOLDING | 32 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| William GOOCH | 66 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Charles GOODE | 45 | M | Inmate | Ipswich | |||
| Ann GOSLING | 83 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Henry GOSLING | 40 | M | Inmate | Imbecile | Colchester | ||
| Matilda GOSLING | 73 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| William GOSLING | 45 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Sarah GRAVES | 80 | F | Inmate | Nottingham | |||
| George GREEN | 69 | M | Inmate | Colshester | |||
| Mary Ann GREEN | 83 | F | Inmate | Peatsfield, Hampshire | |||
| Thomas GREEN | 68 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| George GROVES | 65 | M | Inmate | Imbecile | Colchester | ||
| Joseph GROVES | 63 | M | Inmate | Imbecile | Colchester | ||
| George HALLS | 61 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Eliza Ann HARBOUR | 40 | F | Inmate | Imbecile | East Mersea, Essex | ||
| Thomas William HARDEN | 9 | M | Scholar | London, London, Middlesex | |||
| John HARVEY | 63 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Mary Ann HATFIELD | 52 | F | Inmate | Imbecile | Colchester | ||
| Eliza HAZEL | 52 | F | Inmate | Imbecile | Colchester | ||
| Elizabeth Sarah HEAD | 37 | F | Inmate | Tunbridge Wells | |||
| Emma HEAD | 21 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Elizabeth HELMSLEY | 16 | F | Inmate | Waterford, Ireland | |||
| Thomas HICKMAN | 17 | M | Inmate | ||||
| Jemima HILLS | 84 | F | Inmate | Buers, Suffolk | |||
| Mary Ann HITCHCOCK | 75 | F | Inmate | Chelmsford | |||
| Louisa HORDEN | 12 | F | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| Sarah HORDEN | 4 | F | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| Frederick HORSLEY | 1 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| George Arthur HORSLEY | 14 | M | Scholar | Witham | |||
| Jonathan HORSLEY | 11 | M | Scholar | Coggeshall | |||
| Rose HORSLEY | 3 | F | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| John HOWARD | 70 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| James HOWLETT | 80 | M | Inmate | Earlshorm, Suffolk | |||
| Sarah JACKSON | 80 | F | Inmate | St Osyth, Essex | |||
| Thomas JACOBS | 64 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| William JENKINS | 64 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Charles JOHNSON | 1 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Elizabeth JOHNSON | 23 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Elizabeth JOHNSON | 11 | F | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| Ernest Albert JOHNSON | 9 | M | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| George JOHNSON | 67 | M | Inmate | Imbecile | Colchester | ||
| William JOHNSON | 3 | M | Scholar | Sheppey, Kent | |||
| Ann JONES | 63 | F | Inmate | Bishops Stotford | |||
| Caroline JOYCE | 67 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Laura KEEBLE | 55 | F | Inmate | Maldon | |||
| John KENT | 84 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Adelaide KETTLE | 22 | F | Inmate | Imbecile | Colchester | ||
| John KING | 45 | M | Inmate | Stoke By Nayland | |||
| John KING | 67 | M | Vagrant | Nayland, Suffolk | |||
| Mary KNIGHTS | 78 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Alfred LAY | 49 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Matilda LAY | 40 | F | Inmate | Imbecile | Colchester | ||
| Isaac LEECH | 82 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Louisa LEVETT | 75 | F | Inmate | london | |||
| Thomas LOCK | 79 | M | Inmate | West Bergolt | |||
| John LOVEN | 80 | M | Inmate | Wisbeach, Cambridge | |||
| Sarah LOWE | 67 | F | Inmate | Ipswich | |||
| Harvey MANN | 88 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Joseph MARRIOTT | 77 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| James MARTIN | 76 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| George MASON | 63 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| John MATTHEWS | 76 | M | Inmate | Sudbury, Suffolk | |||
| James MAY | 84 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| James MEAD | 66 | M | Inmate | Stanway | |||
| William James MERRY | 13 | M | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| Robert MILLS | 60 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| William MOORE | 58 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Samuel MOULTON | 69 | M | Inmate | Fordham | |||
| Charles MUDD | 10 | M | Scholar | Nayland | |||
| Arthur MUNROE | 17 | M | Vagrant | Plymouth | |||
| Charles NEVARD | 52 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Stephen NEVARD | 10 | M | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| James NICE | 77 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| John NICHOLLS | 41 | M | Inmate | Caermathen | |||
| Charles NOON | 73 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| John ORPEN | 22 | M | Inmate | St Osyth, Essex | |||
| Henry OXLEY | 36 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| William OXLEY | 85 | M | Inmate | Ardleigh | |||
| Williams PARMENTER | 38 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| William PATTISON | 36 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Ann PEGGS | 83 | F | Inmate | Bradfield, Essex | |||
| George Arthur PETTIT | 9 | M | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| Martha PETTIT | 9m | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Maud Ethel A. PETTIT | 3 | F | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| Sarah Ann PETTIT | 26 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| John PHILLIPS | 30 | M | Inmate | Llandubbie, Wales | |||
| Edward PILGRIM | 10m | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Mary Ann PILGRIM | 25 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Abraham POLLY | 45 | M | Inmate | Ardleigh | |||
| William POTTS | 70 | M | Inmate | London, London, Middlesex | |||
| Mary Ann PRENTICE | 60 | F | Inmate | Imbecile | Colchester | ||
| Ada PRESSNELL | 8 | F | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| Alice PRESSNELL | 6 | F | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| Amelia PRESSNELL | 10 | F | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| Hezekiah RICHARDS | 66 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Samuel ROPER | 47 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Jonathan ROUSE | 74 | M | Inmate | Ipswich, Suffolk | |||
| Emma SADLER | 37 | F | Inmate | Imbecile | Colchester | ||
| Isaac SADLER | 87 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Sarah SAINTY | 72 | F | Inmate | Ipswich | |||
| Sarah SAINTY | 80 | F | Inmate | Aedleigh | |||
| William SALMON | 80 | M | Inmate | Great Clacton | |||
| Joseph SANDRICK | 54 | M | Inmate | (British Subject) | |||
| Charles SARGEANT | 16 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| John SCOTT | 72 | M | Inmate | Mistley | |||
| William SEXTON | 28 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Rummadge Em. SHEAD | 72 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| John SINGER | 71 | M | Inmate | Bradfield, Essex | |||
| Arnold SMITH | 6 | M | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| Eleanor SMITH | 15 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Emma SMITH | 17 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| George SMITH | 20 | M | Vagrant | London, London, Middlesex | |||
| James SMITH | 47 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Jane Ann SMITH | 24 | F | Inmate | Wivwnhoe | |||
| Louisa SMITH | 14 | F | Scholar | London, London, Middlesex | |||
| William SMITH | 12 | M | Inmate | Imbecile | Colchester | ||
| William George SMITH | 4 | M | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| William SMITH | 55 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Caroline SOUTHON | 26 | F | Inmate | London, London, Middlesex | |||
| William Alfred SPARROW | 8 | M | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| Emma SPINKS | 71 | F | Inmate | Woodbridge, Suffolk | |||
| Thomas SPINKS | 74 | M | Inmate | (British Subject) | |||
| Eliza SPOONER | 31 | F | Inmate | Imbecile | Colchester | ||
| Mary Ann SPORE | 71 | F | Inmate | Ingastone | |||
| George STEGGLES | 59 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Elizabeth STOCKER | 8 | F | Scholar | Dinspore, India | |||
| Kate STOCKER | 11 | F | Scholar | Bombay, India | |||
| Jessie STOREY | 13 | F | Inmate | Walton Om The Naze | |||
| Samuel STUDD | 86 | M | Inmate | Sudbury, Suffolk | |||
| Emma STUTTERS | 4 | F | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| Martha STUTTERS | 25 | F | Inmate | Dedham | |||
| Frederick SUTTERS | 6 | M | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| Henry SYMMONS | 47 | M | Inmate | Bawdrip, Somerset | |||
| Elizabeth TAYLOR | 84 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| John TAYLOR | 54 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Henry THOMPSON | 42 | M | Vagrant | Portsmouth | |||
| Hannah THORINGTON | 16 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Richard THORNE | 71 | M | Inmate | ipswich | |||
| William TILLETT | 70 | M | Inmate | Ipswich | |||
| Thomas TOTMAN | 79 | M | Inmate | West Bergholt | |||
| Edgar TURRELL | 10 | M | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| Henry TURRELL | 40 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| James TURTLE | 65 | M | Inmate | Imbecile | Colchester | ||
| Daniel UNDERWOOD | 72 | M | Inmate | Herwich | |||
| Mary Ann VALE | 61 | F | Inmate | Imbecile | London, London, Middlesex | ||
| Sarah VALE | 67 | F | Inmate | Imbecile | Colchester | ||
| Mary VINE | 64 | F | Inmate | Peldon | |||
| William WADE | 72 | M | Inmate | Bradfield | |||
| William WARDEN | 40 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Elizabeth WARNER | 51 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Horatio Thomas WATERWORTH | 61 | M | Inmate | Southampton | |||
| Harriet WATTS | 85 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| James WATTS | 63 | M | Inmate | Imbecile | Colchester | ||
| George WELCH | 25 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Eliza WELHAM | 7 | F | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| Magaret WELHAM | 5 | F | Scholar | Colchester | |||
| Charles WHITING | 64 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Martha WHITING | 81 | F | Inmate | Yarmouth | |||
| John WILLIAMS | 68 | M | Inmate | Thorpe Le Sogen | |||
| Letitia WILLIS | 20 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| John WILSON | 72 | M | Inmate | Reefham, Norfolk | |||
| Mary Ann WILSON | 71 | F | Inmate | Working, Surrey | |||
| Mary WILSON | 76 | F | Inmate | Great Bentley, Essex | |||
| Rhoda WINGFIELD | 54 | F | Inmate | Imbecile | Colchester | ||
| David WITNEY | 40 | M | Inmate | N K | |||
| Henry WOODGATE | 56 | M | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Emma WOODS | 15 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Maria WOODS | 25 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| Sophia WOOLNOUGH | 54 | F | Inmate | ||||
| Ann WRIGHT | 66 | F | Inmate | Colchester | |||
| George YATES | 72 | M | Inmate | Weeley, Essex |
Total residents: 282
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