1881 Census: Residents of Horncastle Union Workhouse
| Name | Mar | Age | Sex | Relation | Occupation | Handicap | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staff | |||||||
| William T. BERRIDGE | M | 39 | M | Head | Workhouse Master (Munic) | Wrawby, Lincoln | |
| Betsy H. BERRIDGE | M | 40 | F | Wife | Matron | Glanford Brigg, Lincoln | |
| Caroline E. BERRIDGE | 12 | F | Scholar | Horncastle, Lincoln | |||
| Annie E. BERRIDGE | 10 | F | Scholar | Horncastle, Lincoln | |||
| Mary W. BERRIDGE | 6 | F | Scholar | Horncastle, Lincoln | |||
| Ellen BLANCHARD | W | 53 | F | Nurse | Nurse (Munic) | York, York | |
| George DIXON | U | 26 | M | Porter | Porter | Bicker, Lincoln | |
| Elizabeth CLARK | 33 | F | Gen Svt | General Servant | Ranby, Lincoln | ||
| Emily L. EMPRINGHAM | 38 | F | Visr | None | Barton On Humber, Lincoln | ||
| Inmates | |||||||
| William ALLBONES | W | 84 | M | Inmate | Ag Labourer (Pauper) | Horncastle, Lincoln | |
| Rosa Ann ALLCOCK | 4 | F | Inmate | Scholar (Pauper) | Horncastle, Lincoln | ||
| Robert ASHTON | 21 | M | Imbecile | ||||
| Ada BAILDHAM | 9 | F | Inmate | Horncastle, Lincoln | |||
| Mary J. BAILDHAM | U | 31 | F | Inmate | Charwoman | Horncastle, Lincoln | |
| Elizabeth BALDOCK | U | 18 | F | Inmate | Domestic Servt Genl (Pauper) | Horncastle, Lincoln | |
| John E. BEECH | 9 | M | Scholar | Horncastle, Lincoln | |||
| Joseph BEECH | 12 | M | Scholar | ||||
| Maria BEECH | M | 31 | F | Field Labourer | Coningsby, Lincoln | ||
| Sarah Ann BENTON | U | 32 | F | Inmate | (Pauper) | Deaf & Dumb | Revesby, Lincoln |
| Betsy BRACKENBURY | U | 35 | F | Inmate | Charwoman | Hemingby, Lincoln | |
| Eliza BRACKENBURY | 4 | F | Inmate | Scholar | Pauper | Horncastle, Lincoln | |
| Harriett BRACKENBURY | 8 | F | Inmate | Scholar | Horncastle, Lincoln | ||
| Mary A. BRACKENBURY | 10 | F | Inmate | Scholar | Horncastle, Lincoln | ||
| William BROCKLESBY | W | 77 | M | Laundress | Belchford, Lincoln | ||
| George BROXHOLME | U | 45 | M | Inmate | Ag Lab (Pauper) | Lissington, Lincoln | |
| Ann BYCROFT | W | 75 | F | Inmate | Formerly Domestic Servt Gen (Pauper) | Tetford, Lincoln | |
| John CHAPMAN | U | 74 | M | Inmate | Hawker | Coningsby, Lincoln | |
| John CHAPMAN | U | 54 | M | Inmate | Ag Labr | Pauper | Hemingby, Lincoln |
| William CLARK | 58 | M | Ag Labr | Bucknall, Lincoln | |||
| William CLARK | U | 81 | M | Ag Labr | Coningsby, Lincoln | ||
| William COUSINS | 29 | M | Inmate | (Pauper) | Imbecile | New Bolingbrook, Lincoln | |
| Sophia DALTON | 76 | F | Domestic Servant Housekeeper | Bucknall, Lincoln | |||
| Joseph DAWSON | U | 76 | M | Miller | Hemingby, Lincoln | ||
| Waterland DAWSON | U | 70 | M | Ag Labr | West Ashby, Lincoln | ||
| Joseph DIXON | U | 81 | M | Inmate | Blacksmith (Army) (Pauper) | Bengal Umballah | |
| Maria DRABY | U | 37 | F | Inmate | (Pauper) | Imbecile | Lincoln |
| Thomas DRURY | W | 86 | M | Inmate | Bricklayers Labr | Horncastle, Lincoln | |
| Eliza ELVIN | U | 18 | F | Inmate | Domestic Servt General (Pauper) | Sleaford, Lincoln | |
| Eliza EMERSON | U | 77 | F | Inmate | (Pauper) | Imbecile | Scamblesby, Lincoln |
| John EMPRINGHAM | U | 80 | M | Inmate | Ag Labourer (Pauper) | Lusby, Lincoln | |
| Emma ENNTATE | 13 | F | Scholar | Coningsby, Lincoln | |||
| William ENNTATE | 10 | M | Scholar | Coningsby, Lincoln | |||
| Thomas EVERINGTON | W | 81 | M | Ag Labr | Asgarby, Lincoln | ||
| Charles EVISON | 12 | M | Inmate | Scholar (Pauper) | Horncastle, Lincoln | ||
| John EVISON | 9 | M | Inmate | Scholar (Pauper) | Horncastle, Lincoln | ||
| Thomas FANTHORP | U | 80 | M | Inmate | General Labourer (Pauper) | Tumby, Lincoln | |
| John FLETCHER | U | 46 | M | Inmate | Groom | Horncastle, Lincoln | |
| Emma FOY | U | 37 | F | Inmate | Charwoman (Pauper) | Horncastle, Lincoln | |
| Ann GENTLE | W | 75 | F | Inmate | Formerly Staymaker (Pauper) | High Toynton, Lincoln | |
| John GOY | 7 | M | Inmate | Scholar (Pauper) | Horncastle, Lincoln | ||
| Thomas GOY | U | 44 | M | Ag Labr | |||
| William GOY | W | 77 | M | Belchford, Lincoln | |||
| Benjamin GRANT | 12 | M | Scholar | Coningsby, Lincoln | |||
| Christopher GRUNDY | 7 | M | Inmate | Scholar (Pauper) | Horncastle, Lincoln | ||
| Margaret GRUNDY | U | 34 | F | Inmate | Domestic Servt General (Pauper) | Minting, Lincoln | |
| Frank GUNNEL | U | 60 | M | Inmate | General Labourer (Pauper) | Horncastle, Lincoln | |
| Stepen HARRISON | 10 | M | Inmate | Scholar | Horncastle, Lincoln | ||
| Danman HENRY | U | 72 | M | Ag Labr | Coningsby, Lincoln | ||
| William HICKINBOTTOM | 73 | M | Inmate | Ag Labourer (Pauper) | Mareham Le Hill, Lincoln | ||
| Ann HIGGINS | W | 75 | F | Inmate | Formerly Field Worker (Pauper) | Coningsby, Lincoln | |
| Elizabeth HOFF | W | 86 | F | Domestic Servt General | Sibsey, Lincoln | ||
| Mary HOFF | U | 49 | F | None | Idiot | Lincoln | |
| Henry HOLLIS | U | 65 | M | Inmate | Ag Labourer (Pauper) | Northampton | |
| James HOLMES | 32 | M | Inmate | Moulder (Undef) (Pauper) | Keightley, York | ||
| Robert HOLTBY | W | 77 | M | Inmate | Ag Labourer (Pauper) | Greetham, Lincoln | |
| Herbert HUMPHERY | 6 | M | Ag Labr | Belchford, Lincoln | |||
| Jane HUMPHERY | 26 | F | Domestic Sert General | Belchford, Lincoln | |||
| Rebecca HUMPHERY | 6 | F | Scholar | Belchford, Lincoln | |||
| Susan HUMPHERY | 25 | F | Idiot | Belchford, Lincoln | |||
| Gertrude INFANT | 3m | F | Inmate | (Pauper) | Horncastle, Lincoln | ||
| Mary INGHAM | W | 83 | F | Inmate | Late Dyer | Horncastle, Lincoln | |
| Benjamin JEFFERY | 60 | M | Inmate | Ag Labourer (Pauper) | Lusby, Lincoln | ||
| Eliza JEFFERY | 16 | F | Inmate | Scholar (Pauper) | Horncastle, Lincoln | ||
| Betsy JEFFREY | U | 24 | F | Inmate | None | Horncastle, Lincoln | |
| Thomas JOHNSON | U | 67 | M | Inmate | Ag Lab (Pauper) | Wragby, Lincoln | |
| William KIRK | U | 71 | M | Inmate | Ag Labourer (Pauper) | Kirkby On Bain, Lincoln | |
| Alice LANSDALE | U | 19 | F | Gen Dom Servt | Coningsby, Lincoln | ||
| Thomas LILL | U | 39 | M | Inmate | None | Idiot | Hemingby, Lincoln |
| Betsy LOWIS | U | 23 | F | Inmate | Domestic Servt General (Pauper) | Horncastle, Lincoln | |
| Charles LOWIS | U | 4 | M | Inmate | Scholar (Pauper) | Horncastle, Lincoln | |
| Eliza LOWIS | U | 59 | F | Inmate | Laundress (Pauper) | Moorby, Lincoln | |
| James MARRIOTT | U | 72 | M | Inmate | Ag Lab (Pauper) | ||
| Eliza MELTON | 18 | F | Inmate | Domestic Servt General (Pauper) | Horsington, Lincoln | ||
| Mary OLIVER | U | 69 | F | Inmate | Domestic Servt Housekeeper (Pauper) | Scrivelsby, Lincoln | |
| Frederic PARKER | U | 28 | M | Vagt | General Labourer (Pauper) | London Limehouse, Middlesex | |
| Lucy Ann PARKER | 9 | F | Inmate | ||||
| Naomi PARKER | 16 | F | Scholar | ||||
| Pa Thomas PARKER | W | 66 | M | Other | Ag Labr | Asgarby, Lincoln | |
| Peter PARKER | 12 | M | |||||
| George Hy. PARKINSON | 5 | M | Inmate | Pauper | Horncastle, Lincoln | ||
| John S. PEACOCK | 3 | M | Inmate | Horncastle, Lincoln | |||
| John POGSON | W | 67 | M | Inmate | General Labr | Horncastle, Lincoln | |
| Robert PRYE | 62 | M | Inmate | Bricklayer | Tetford, Lincoln | ||
| John RANYARD | U | 17 | M | Inmate | (Pauper) | Imbecile | Roughton, Lincoln |
| Thomas RANYARD | U | 13 | M | Inmate | Scholar (Pauper) | Scamblesby, Lincoln | |
| Mary Ann RENTON | 35 | F | Inmate | Idiot | Belchford, Lincoln | ||
| Eliza RICHARDSON | 15 | F | Inmate | Scholar | Horncastle, Lincoln | ||
| Rose ROBINSON | W | 75 | M | Inmate | Ag Lab (Pauper) | Thimbelby, Lincoln | |
| Nicholas SHAW | M | 64 | M | Inmate | Bricklayers Labr (Pauper) | Horncastle, Lincoln | |
| Frederic SMITH | U | 9 | M | Inmate | Scholar | Haltham, Lincoln | |
| James SMITH | W | 76 | M | Ag Labr | Coningsby, Lincoln | ||
| Joseph SMITH | U | 58 | M | Inmate | None | Idiot | Horncastle, Lincoln |
| Walter SMITH | 19 | M | Inmate | (Pauper) | Worcester, Worcester | ||
| William SMITH | U | 10 | M | Inmate | Scholar | Haltham, Lincoln | |
| William SMITH | 43 | M | Inmate | Ag Labourer (Pauper) | Mareham Le Fen, Lincoln | ||
| William STEPHENSON | U | 71 | M | Inmate | Tailor | Horncastle, Lincoln | |
| Ellen TEAR | 29 | F | None | Idiot | Bag Enderby, Lincoln | ||
| Eliza TURNER | U | 34 | F | Inmate | General Domestic Servt | Hemingby, Lincoln | |
| Richard TURNER | 4 | M | Inmate | Pauper | Horncastle, Lincoln | ||
| William TURNER | 2 | M | Inmate | Pauper | Horncastle, Lincoln | ||
| Sarah VINTER | U | 77 | F | Inmate | Domestic Servant House Keeper | Goulsby, Lincoln | |
| Samuel WHITE | U | 69 | M | Ag Labr | Coningsby, Lincoln | ||
| John WHITTON | U | 72 | M | Inmate | Ag Labourer (PAUPER) | Kirkstead, Lincoln | |
| Thomas WILLERTON | W | 87 | M | Inmate | Ag Labourer (Pauper) | Scamblesby, Lincoln |
Total residents: 114
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