Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Kingston Union, Surrey, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah Baker | 20 | 0 | Idiotcy | no. |
| Henry Brown | 5 | 0 | Age, infirmity | no. |
| William Barnett | 6 | 0 | Epilepsy | no. |
| Elizabeth Haynes | 8 | 0 | Age, paralysis | no. |
| Sophia Jackson | 16 | 0 | Idiotcy, age | no. |
| Joseph Maskell | 16 | 0 | Idiotcy | no. |
| Sarah Pryor | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Harriett Peacock | 16 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Richards | 8 | 0 | Phthisis | no. |
| George Sheffield | 14 | 0 | Idiotcy | no. |
| John Spong | 7 | 0 | Blindness, age | no. |
| Sarah Smith | 6 | 0 | Phthisis, age | no. |
| George Curtis | 5 | 0 | Infirmity, age | no. |
| James Gray | 5 | 0 | Idiotcy, age | no. |
| John Allen | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Henry Cole | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Hall | 14 | 0 | Infirmity age | no. |
| Elizabeth Hampshire | 13 | 0 | Idiotcy, age | no. |
| Charles Bagwell | 5 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| Elizabeth Price | 16 | 0 | Idiotcy | no. |
| William Hughes | 5 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| Fanny Allingham | 18 | 0 | Epilepsy | no. |
| William Reed | 6 | 0 | Idiotcy | no. |
| Sarah Adlam | 9 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| Thomas Andrews | 8 | 0 | Idiotcy | no. |
| Harriet Bransom | 18 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sophia Brooks | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Oswin Sutton | 6 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| Sarah Start | 14 | 0 | Idiotcy | no. |
| James Allen | 8 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| Elizabeth Clarke | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Empson | 13 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Catherine Hughes | 6 | 0 | Epilepsy | no. |
| Amelia North | 6 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| Ebenezer Smith | 8 | 0 | Idiotcy | no. |
| William Pike | 6 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
| Emily Boxall | 5 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
| Fanny Bullen | 12 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
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