1881 Census: Residents of Union Workhouse, Great Dunmow, Essex
| Name | Mar | Age | Sex | Relation | Occupation | Handicap | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staff | |||||||
| Charles ROYDHOUSE | M | 45 | M | Master (Head) | Master Of Workhouse And Chelsea Pensioner (Munic) | St Georges Hanover Square, Middlesex | |
| Emma ROYDHOUSE | M | 39 | F | Wife | Matron Of Workhouse | Newport, Essex | |
| Emma Jane ROYDHOUSE | U | 16 | F | Daughter | Apprentice To Dressmaking | North America British | |
| Alice Elizabeth Sarah ROYDHOUSE | 10 | F | Daughter | Scholar | North America British | ||
| Eleanor Mary ROYDHOUSE | 8 | F | Daughter | Scholar | Dover, Kent | ||
| Thomas WILLERS | M | 40 | M | Schoolmaster (Head) | Workhouse Schoolmaster (Munic) | Gt Waltham, Essex | |
| Eliza WILLERS | M | 45 | F | Wife | No Occupation | Kingscote, Gloucester | |
| William Thomas Eddes WILLERS | 16 | M | Son | British School Teacher | Dover, Kent | ||
| Eliza Dorah Jane WILLERS | 11 | F | Daughter | Scholar | Dover, Kent | ||
| Charles Edwin WILLERS | 9 | M | Son | Scholar | Gt Dunmow, Essex | ||
| John NEWMAN | M | 36 | M | Porter (Head) | Workhouse Porter (Munic) | White Notley, Essex | |
| Elizabeth Buckingham NEWMAN | M | 36 | F | Wife | Workhouse Laundress | Halstead, Essex | |
| John William NEWMAN | 8 | M | Son | Scholar | Halstead, Essex | ||
| George James NEWMAN | 5 | M | Son | Scholar | Gt Dunmow, Essex | ||
| Emily Mary NEWMAN | 4 | F | Daughter | Scholar | Gt Dunmow, Essex | ||
| Joshua Edwin NEWMAN | 3 | M | Son | Gt Dunmow, Essex | |||
| Harry Porter NEWMAN | 6m | M | Son | Gt Dunmow, Essex | |||
| William JOYCE | M | 52 | M | Cook (Head) | Workhouse Cook | Felstead, Essex | |
| Sarah JOYCE | M | 52 | F | Wife | None | Gt Dunmow, Essex | |
| Albert William JOYCE | 12 | M | Son | Scholar | Gt Dunmow, Essex | ||
| Joanna CLARKE | U | 34 | F | Schoolmistress | Workhouse Schoolmistress | London, Middlesex | |
| Lucy FULLER | U | 34 | F | Nurse | Workhouse Nurse | Little Dunmow, Essex | |
| Inmates | |||||||
| George ABBOTT | W | 81 | M | Pauper | Miller (No Occ) | Thaxted, Essex | |
| Elizabeth ADAMS | M | 62 | F | Pauper | No Occupation | Stebbing, Essex | |
| William ALLEN | U | 74 | M | Pauper | Ag Lab (No Occ) | Stebbing, Essex | |
| Benjamin ALLERTON | W | 58 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer | Lindsell, Essex | |
| Ellen ANDREWS | U | 39 | F | Pauper | Lunatic | Thaxted, Essex | |
| Alfred AYLETT | 13 | M | Pauper | Scholar | Gt Bardfield, Essex | ||
| Stephen BACON | 13 | M | Pauper | Scholar | Gt Canfield, Essex | ||
| Benjamin BACON | W | 86 | M | Pauper | Ag Lab (No Occ) | High Roothing, Essex | |
| George BACON | 10 | M | Pauper | Scholar | Gt Canfield, Essex | ||
| Mary BARKER | W | 67 | F | Pauper | No Occupation | Stebbing, Essex | |
| Ellen BARKER | U | 20 | F | Pauper | No Occupation | Thaxted, Essex | |
| William BARLTROP | W | 84 | M | Pauper | Shepherd (No Occ) | Broxted, Essex | |
| John BARNARD | W | 84 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer | Takeley, Essex | |
| Martha BARTROP | U | 58 | F | Pauper | Lunatic | Hatfield B O, Essex | |
| William BARTROP | U | 77 | M | Pauper | Ag Lab (No Occ) | Takeley, Essex | |
| Benjamin BEARD | U | 66 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer (No Occ) | Barnston, Essex | |
| William BIRD | W | 67 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer (No Occ) | Hatfield B O, Essex | |
| Florence BIRD | 9 | F | Pauper | Scholar | Gt Dunmow, Essex | ||
| John BLOOMFIELD | U | 48 | M | Pauper | Ag Lab | Stebbing, Essex | |
| Jane BOLDEN | W | 75 | F | Pauper | No Occupation | Little Canfield, Essex | |
| John BOLDER | W | 77 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer (No Occ) | Broxted, Essex | |
| Charles BRAY | 13 | M | Pauper | Scholar | High Easter, Essex | ||
| Thomas BREWER | U | 33 | M | Pauper | Lunatic | Gt Leighs, Essex | |
| Kate BRIDGEMAN | 9 | F | Daughter | Scholar | Chicknay, Essex | ||
| Ellen BRIDGEMAN | 11 | F | Daughter | Scholar | Tilty, Essex | ||
| Leila BRIDGEMAN | 13 | F | Daughter | Scholar | Tilty, Essex | ||
| Adelaide BRIDGEMAN | M | 48 | F | Pauper (Head) | No Occupation | Whitlesford, Cambridge | |
| John BRIGHT | W | 81 | M | Pauper | Ag Lab (No Occ) | Bardfield Saling, Essex | |
| Rose BUCK | 9 | F | Pauper | Scholar | Gt Dunmow, Essex | ||
| Sarah BYATS | W | 77 | F | Pauper | No Occupation | Chichester, Sussex | |
| Sophia BYATT | W | 50 | F | Pauper | No Occupation | Henham, Essex | |
| Belinda CAMP | W | 93 | F | Pauper | No Occupation | Gt Bardfield, Essex | |
| Emily CARTER | 11 | F | Pauper | Scholar | Felstead, Essex | ||
| Elizabeth CARTER | 12 | F | Pauper | Scholar | Felstead, Essex | ||
| Henry CATON | W | 79 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer (No Occ) | Thaxted, Essex | |
| Elizabeth CHALK | 5 | F | Pauper | Scholar | Broomfield, Essex | ||
| Mary CHALK | U | 74 | F | Pauper | Imbecile | High Easter, Essex | |
| Mary CHALK | 11 | F | Pauper | Scholar | Gt Dunmow, Essex | ||
| William CHANDLER | U | 42 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer | Gt Dunmow, Essex | |
| William CHILDS | U | 71 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer (No Occ) | Ingatestone, Essex | |
| Ezra CHILDS | U | 37 | M | Pauper | None | Gt Waltham, Essex | |
| Eleanor CHILTON | U | 58 | F | Pauper | Lunatic | Hatfield B O, Essex | |
| Harriet CHIPPERFIELD | W | 80 | F | Pauper | No Occupation | Little Dunmow, Essex | |
| Emily CHOPPING | U | 23 | F | Pauper (Head) | Domestic Servant | Stebbing, Essex | |
| Annie CHOPPING | 2 | F | Daughter | Gt Dunmow, Essex | |||
| John CHRISTY | U | 74 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer (No Occ) | Takeley, Essex | |
| Eliza CHRISTY | 14 | F | Pauper | Scholar | Takeley, Essex | ||
| Alice CHRISTY | 12 | F | Pauper | Scholar | Takeley, Essex | ||
| Ruth CLARK | U | 74 | F | Pauper | Field Work For Farmers | Debden, Essex | |
| Charles CLARKE | 10 | M | Son | London, Middlesex | |||
| William CLARKE | M | 54 | M | Pauper (Head) | Carpenter | Thaxted, Essex | |
| Alfred CLARKE | 11 | M | Son | Scholar | Hornchurch, Essex | ||
| Robert CLAYDON | W | 81 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer (No Occ) | Stebbing, Essex | |
| Jemima CLAYTON | U | 62 | F | Pauper | No Occupation | Little Easton, Essex | |
| Samuel COOTE | W | 74 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer (No Occ) | Thaxted, Essex | |
| James CORNELL | 13 | M | Pauper | Scholar | Thaxted, Essex | ||
| Henry COWELL | 7 | M | Pauper | Scholar | Thaxted, Essex | ||
| Ellen COWELL | 15 | F | Pauper | Scholar | Thaxted, Essex | ||
| Abraham COWELL | U | 38 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer | Thaxted, Essex | |
| Charles COX | 6 | M | Pauper | Scholar | Gt Easton, Essex | ||
| Alice COX | 8 | F | Pauper | Scholar | Gt Easton, Essex | ||
| William COX | 10 | M | Pauper | Scholar | Gt Easton, Essex | ||
| William CUTTS | 12 | M | Pauper | Scholar | Bardfield Saling, Essex | ||
| Elizabeth DODD | W | 67 | F | Pauper | No Occupation | Springfield, Essex | |
| Edward DOE | 12 | M | Pauper | Scholar | Gt Dunmow, Essex | ||
| James EVANS | U | 20 | M | Casual Pauper | Agricultural Labourer | Brighton, Sussex | |
| Elizabeth FARROW | U | 57 | F | Pauper | No Occupation | Stebbing, Essex | |
| James FELSTEAD | M | 59 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer | Takeley, Essex | |
| Lily FOWLER | 5 | F | Pauper | Scholar | Gt Dunmow, Essex | ||
| Charlotte FRANCIES | 8 | F | Daughter | Little Canfield, Essex | |||
| Mary FRANCIES | 13 | F | Daughter | Gt Dunmow, Essex | |||
| Charles FRANCIES | 10 | M | Son | Gt Dunmow, Essex | |||
| John FRANCIES | M | 53 | M | Pauper (Head) | Agricultural Labourer | Broxted, Essex | |
| Sarah FRANCIES | M | 36 | F | Wife | No Occupation | Takeley, Essex | |
| George FRENCH | U | 53 | M | Pauper | Dealer In Pigs Horses Etc | White Roothing, Essex | |
| Jeremiah FULLER | U | 73 | M | Pauper | Ag Lab (No Occ) | Felstead, Essex | |
| Joseph FULLER | U | 63 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer (No Occ) | Felstead, Essex | |
| Mary GIBSON | W | 81 | F | Pauper | No Occupation | Goldhangar, Essex | |
| Elizabeth GROVES | W | 82 | F | Pauper | No Occupation | Aythorp Roothing, Essex | |
| Peter GUNN | U | 76 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer (No Occ) | Broxted, Essex | |
| John GUNN | U | 70 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer (No Occ) | Gt Easton, Essex | |
| John HARVEY | W | 77 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer | Thaxted, Essex | |
| Mark HARVEY | M | 76 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer (No Occ) | Felstead, Essex | |
| Stephen HAWKES | U | 57 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer | Gt Dunmow, Essex | |
| George HAWKES | U | 65 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer (No Occ) | Gt Dunmow, Essex | |
| John Uriah HILLS | U | 55 | M | Pauper | Bricklayers Labourer | Thaxted, Essex | |
| Elizabeth HINSON | W | 82 | F | Pauper | No Occupation | Hatfield B O, Essex | |
| John HINSON | U | 42 | M | Pauper | None | Blind | Takeley, Essex |
| Joseph James HOCKLEY | 1m | M | Pauper | Gt Dunmow, Essex | |||
| Elizabeth HOCKLEY | U | 28 | F | Pauper (Head) | Domestic Servant | Gt Dunmow, Essex | |
| Ada HOCKLEY | 12 | F | Daughter | Scholar | London, Middlesex | ||
| John HOLGATE | W | 65 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer (No Occ) | Aythorp Roothing, Essex | |
| James HOLLAND | W | 79 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer (No Occ) | Gt Saling, Essex | |
| Martha HOLMES | U | 45 | F | Pauper | No Occupation | Barnston, Essex | |
| Walter HOWLAND | 11 | M | Pauper | Scholar | Felstead, Essex | ||
| Robert JEALOUS | U | 58 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer | Gt Bardfield, Essex | |
| Henry JIGGINS | U | 50 | M | Pauper | Tailor | Felstead, Essex | |
| Hannah JOHNSON | U | 32 | F | Pauper | Lunatic | Gt Dunmow, Essex | |
| Sarah JOHNSON | 34 | F | Pauper | Gt Dunmow, Essex | |||
| Henry JOYCE | U | 61 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer | Gt Dunmow, Essex | |
| Charles KETLEY | 11 | M | Pauper | Scholar | Gt Dunmow, Essex | ||
| John KNIGHT | W | 74 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer (No Occ) | Broxted, Essex | |
| Eliza LAKE | W | 86 | F | Pauper | No Occupation | London, Middlesex | |
| James LANHAM | U | 70 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer (No Occ) | Good Easter, Essex | |
| Lucy LAUDRUM | 15 | F | Pauper | Scholar | Chelmsford, Essex | ||
| Florence LAUDRUM | 11 | F | Pauper | Scholar | Gt Dunmow, Essex | ||
| Thomas LEWIS | W | 80 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer (No Occ) | Stebbing, Essex | |
| Arthur LILLEY | 9 | M | Pauper | Scholar | Gt Dunmow, Essex | ||
| Thomas LITCHFIELD | M | 78 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer (No Occ) | Stebbing, Essex | |
| Caroline LITCHFIELD | M | 75 | F | Pauper | Lunatic | Gt Dunmow, Essex | |
| Eliza LITTLE | U | 19 | F | Pauper | No Occupation | Takeley, Essex | |
| Jeremiah LITTLE | U | 51 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer | Aythorp Roothing, Essex | |
| Isaac LIVERMORE | U | 63 | M | Pauper | (No Occ) | Lunatic | Felstead, Essex |
| Samuel LIVERMORE | W | 69 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer (No Occ) | Felstead, Essex | |
| Daniel LIVERMORE | W | 80 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer (No Occ) | Felstead, Essex | |
| Thomas Wm. LODGE | 2m | M | Pauper | Gt Dunmow, Essex | |||
| Elizabeth LODGE | U | 20 | F | Pauper | No Occupation | Gt Dunmow, Essex | |
| George LODGE | U | 32 | M | Pauper | Ag Lab | High Easter, Essex | |
| Emily LODGE | U | 44 | F | Pauper | No Occupation | High Easter, Essex | |
| Sarah LODGE | W | 75 | F | Pauper | No Occupation | Gt Dunmow, Essex | |
| Eliza MASON | U | 28 | F | Pauper | No Occupation | Takeley, Essex | |
| Kezia MATTHEWS | W | 85 | F | Pauper | No Occupation | Hatfield B O, Essex | |
| James MILLBANK | 14 | M | Pauper | Scholar | Great Saling, Essex | ||
| Isaac NEWMAN | U | 75 | M | Pauper | Ag Lab (No Occ) | Gt Bardfield, Essex | |
| William NUNN | W | 84 | M | Pauper | Ag Lab (No Occ) | High Roothing, Essex | |
| Thomas OTTLEY | U | 72 | M | Pauper | Thatcher (No Occ) | Gt Bardfield, Essex | |
| Martha OVERALL | 12 | F | Pauper | Scholar | Little Saling, Essex | ||
| Henry OVERALL | 9 | M | Pauper | Scholar | Little Saling, Essex | ||
| Thomas OVERALL | 14 | M | Pauper | Scholar | Little Saling, Essex | ||
| Richard OWERS | 4 | M | Pauper | Scholar | Little Dunmow, Essex | ||
| Walter PAINE | U | 24 | M | Pauper | None | Gt Bardfield, Essex | |
| Emily PAINE | 7 | F | Pauper | Scholar | Gt Bardfield, Essex | ||
| Clara PARRY | 12 | F | Pauper | Scholar | Hatfield B O, Essex | ||
| Jane PARRY | 12 | F | Pauper | Scholar | Stebbing, Essex | ||
| Alice PARRY | 11 | F | Pauper | Scholar | Stebbing, Essex | ||
| Emma PARRY | 9 | F | Pauper | Scholar | Hatfield B O, Essex | ||
| George PATIENT | 9 | M | Pauper | Scholar | Gt Easton, Essex | ||
| William PATIENT | 12 | M | Pauper | Scholar | Gt Easton, Essex | ||
| Emma PATIENT | 4 | F | Pauper | Scholar | Gt Easton, Essex | ||
| Joseph PAVELIN | W | 78 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer (No Occ) | Stebbing, Essex | |
| William PAVITTE | U | 62 | M | Pauper | Cattle Driver (No Occ) | Aythorp Roothing, Essex | |
| Esther PERRY | 8 | F | Pauper | Scholar | Stebbing, Essex | ||
| Annie PERRY | 7 | F | Pauper | Scholar | Stebbing, Essex | ||
| Emma POLLEY | M | 40 | F | Pauper (Head) | No Occupation | Broxted, Essex | |
| Ernest POLLEY | 1 | M | Son | Little Canfield, Essex | |||
| Elizabeth ROBINS | M | 62 | F | Pauper | No Occupation | Stoney Stratford, Buckingham | |
| George ROGERS | M | 43 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer | Hatfield B O, Essex | |
| Ann SAICH | 10 | F | Pauper | Scholar | Stebbing, Essex | ||
| Charles SALMON | W | 64 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer | Stebbing, Essex | |
| Charlotte SAUNDERS | U | 20 | F | Pauper | No Occupation | Hatfield B O, Essex | |
| Mary Ann SAUNDERS | W | 56 | F | Pauper | No Occupation | Sawbridgeworth, Hertford | |
| Thirzah SAVILL | 5m | F | Daughter | Gt Dunmow, Essex | |||
| Jail SAVILL | U | 18 | F | Pauper (Head) | Domestic Servant | Gt Dunmow, Essex | |
| Thomas SAVILL | 11 | M | Pauper | Scholar | White Roothing, Essex | ||
| Sophia SAVILLE | W | 77 | F | Pauper | No Occupation | Broxted, Essex | |
| John SAWARD | U | 51 | M | Pauper | Bricklayers Lab | Stisted, Essex | |
| George SEARLE | 14 | M | Pauper | Scholar | Takeley, Essex | ||
| John SEER | W | 84 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer (No Occ) | Great Easton, Essex | |
| Ernest SMITH | 10 | M | Pauper | Scholar | Gt Dunmow, Essex | ||
| Elizabeth SMITH | 7 | F | Pauper | Scholar | Gt Dunmow, Essex | ||
| William STANLEY | W | 71 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer (No Occ) | Takeley, Essex | |
| John STAR | U | 21 | M | Pauper | None | Gt Dunmow, Essex | |
| Alfred STOKES | U | 31 | M | Pauper | Domestic Servant Footman | Gt Dunmow, Essex | |
| Benjamin STOKES | W | 88 | M | Pauper | Thatcher (No Occ) | Morrel Roothing, Essex | |
| William STURGEON | U | 25 | M | Pauper | Blind | Thaxted, Essex | |
| Herbert SURRIDGE | 12 | M | Pauper | Scholar | Thaxted, Essex | ||
| Charles SWALLOW | W | 62 | M | Pauper | Bricklayers Lab | Stebbing, Essex | |
| Charles TADGELL | U | 54 | M | Pauper | Idiot | Thaxted, Essex | |
| Sarah THAKE | W | 78 | F | Pauper | No Occupation | Thaxted, Essex | |
| William THOROGOOD | W | 78 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer | Gt Easton, Essex | |
| Ephraim TISLEY | U | 65 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer (No Occ) | Hatfield B O, Essex | |
| John TURNER | M | 70 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer (No Occ) | Finchingfield, Essex | |
| William TURPIN | U | 70 | M | Pauper | Ag Lab (No Occ) | Stebbing, Essex | |
| Peter TYLER | U | 59 | M | Pauper | Excavator (Raily Lab) | Gt Dunmow, Essex | |
| Mary TYLER | 14 | F | Pauper | Scholar | Epping, Essex | ||
| Elizabeth TYLER | 11 | F | Pauper | Scholar | Greenwich, Kent | ||
| Harry WALLIS | 12 | M | Pauper | Scholar | Broxted, Essex | ||
| James WEBB | U | 36 | M | Casual Pauper | Stonemasons Labourer | Taunton, Somerset | |
| Richard WENTWORTH | M | 89 | M | Pauper | Wheelwright (No Occ) | Hatfield, Essex | |
| George WHITE | U | 22 | M | Casual Pauper | Bricklayers Labourer | Barnwell, Cambridge | |
| Isaac WHITE | U | 62 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer | Lt Bardfield, Essex | |
| Eliza WHITE | U | 49 | F | Pauper | Blind | Stebbing, Essex | |
| Samuel WHITE | U | 63 | M | Pauper | Carpenter | Felstead, Essex | |
| Susan WHYBROW | U | 23 | F | Pauper | No Occupation | Little Canfield, Essex | |
| Thomas WHYBROW | W | 78 | M | Pauper | Currier (No Occ) | Gt Dunmow, Essex | |
| Julia WICKS | 10 | F | Daughter | Scholar | Lindsell, Essex | ||
| Walter WICKS | 11 | M | Son | Scholar | Lindsell, Essex | ||
| William WICKS | M | 59 | M | Pauper (Head) | Agricultural Labourer | Lindsell, Essex | |
| Joseph WINDLEY | W | 81 | M | Pauper | Ag Lab (No Occ) | High Easter, Essex | |
| Thomas WOOLMER | W | 88 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer (No Occ) | Gt Canfield, Essex | |
| George WRIGHT | U | 57 | M | Pauper | Agricultural Labourer | Leadon Roothing, Essex |
Total residents: 213
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