Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Fulham Union, Middlesex, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Lewis | 12 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| George Day | 15 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| James Wheatley | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Maddock | 8 | 0 | Blind | no. |
| Anthony Hazel | 15 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| William Hazell | 15 | 0 | Imbecility | no. |
| Joseph Errington | 12 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Thomas Howard | 15 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| James Taylor | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Minton | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Robert Hill | 6 | 0 | Blind and lame | no. |
| David Jesson | 11 | 0 | Idiocy | no. |
| George Hallett | 15 | 0 | Imbecility | no. |
| Thomas Donald | 6 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| Robert Pinner | 15 | 0 | Lame | no. |
| Thomas Cook | 13 | 0 | Contraction of the limbs | no. |
| Thomas Alsop | 6 | 0 | Old age and near-sighted | no. |
| George Barton | 15 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| Robert Rosser | 8 | 0 | Lame | no. |
| Dennis Leonard | 7 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| George Scrivens | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Frances Lewis | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ellen Smith | 8 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
| Caroline Wayman | 6 | 0 | Illness | no. |
| Jane Reid | 8 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| Mary Hutchinson | 7 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| Ann Baker | 14 | 0 | Illness | no. |
| Mary Feathers | 14 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Catherine Bryan | 10 | 0 | Blind | no. |
| Caroline Littler | 15 | 0 | Weak intellect and near-sighted | no. |
| Ann Whittick | 15 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| Mary Davis | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Green | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Smith | 15 | 0 | Blind | no. |
| Naomi Thatcher | 8 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| Elizabeth Judd | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ellen Burnham | 15 | 0 | Idiocy | no. |
| Sarah Pearson | 15 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| Mary Cornwall | 15 | 0 | ditto. | no. |
| Lucy Webster | 9 | 0 | Lame | no. |
| Martha Goy | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Catherine Lines | 6 | 0 | Bad legs | no. |
| Mary Jerratt | 10 | 0 | Idiocy | no. |
| Elizabeth Eames | 6 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| Mary Lock | 15 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Ann Drummond | 15 | 0 | Idiocy | no. |
| Ann Murray | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Hobbs | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Maria Pullen | 15 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
| Jane Rogers | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Catherine Welsh | 10 | 0 | Illness. | no. |
| Elizabeth Ledger | 6 | 0 | Lameness | no. |
| Bridget Meehen | 5 | 0 | Idiocy | no. |
| Kate Mahoney | 15 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Henrietti McDuald | 8 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
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