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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