Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Rotherhithe Parish, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
George Taylor | 13 | 0 | Infirm | |
Stephen Robinson | 18 | 0 | Subject to fits | |
George Hambrook | 34 | 0 | Blind | |
William Bellis | 17 | 0 | Epileptic | |
Thomas Greaves | 10 | 0 | ditto | |
Isaac Johnson | 12 | 0 | Paralysis | |
Joseph Hales | 8 | 0 | Infirm | |
John Garrity | 10 | 0 | ditto | |
Cornelius Dacey | 7 | 0 | ditto | |
Robert Maltwood | 7 | 0 | ditto | |
Henry Norton | 6 | 0 | ditto | |
Michael Collins | 6 | 0 | ditto | |
Thomas Davis | 7 | 0 | ditto | |
Thomas Johnson | 6 | 0 | Idiotic (harmless) | |
John Taylor | 6 | 0 | Infirm | |
Frederick Johnson | 6 | 0 | ditto | |
Joseph Norris | 10 | 0 | ditto | |
Joseph Henderson | 6 | 0 | ditto | |
Samuel Bayley | 5 | 0 | Rheumatism | |
James Aldridge | 5 | 0 | Paralysis | |
James Livermore | 6 | 0 | Infirm | |
Andrew Lind | 8 | 0 | ditto | |
William Dummer | 5 | 0 | ditto | |
John Harris | 5 | 0 | ditto | |
Edward Gough | 5 | 0 | ditto | |
William Walker | uncertain | ditto | ||
William James | 5 | 0 | Paralysis | |
George Garrett | 5 | 0 | infirm | |
William Humber | 28 | 0 | Nearly blind | workh. school. |
John Eastwood | 17 | 0 | Infirm | |
William Robson | 10 | 0 | ditto | |
Ann Davey | 8 | 0 | Came in with her husband, since dead | |
Mary Murch | 32 | 0 | Insufficient earnings | |
Mary Grunt | 26 | 0 | Paralysis | |
Mary Gater | 12 | 0 | Lame | |
Elizabeth Hay | 20 | 0 | Insufficient earnings | |
Elizabeth Tirrell | 12 | 0 | Idiotic (harmless) | |
Mary Pell | 28 | 0 | Insufficient earnings | |
Sarah Pittman | 47 | 0 | Imbecile | |
Ann Atley | 36 | 0 | Insufficient earnings | |
Ann Rippon | 35 | 0 | Nearly blind | workh. school. |
Louisa Gray | 25 | 0 | Sickness | |
Sarah Crossby | 14 | 0 | Infirm | |
Sarah Jacques | 10 | 0 | Paralysis | |
Sarah Axtell | 11 | 0 | Lame | |
Mary Bradley | 8 | 0 | Blind | |
Mary Hands | 8 | 0 | Infirm | |
Martha Trench | 8 | 0 | ditto | |
Harriet Hawes | 10 | 0 | Idiotic (harmless) | |
Harriet Nunn | 8 | 0 | Rheumatism | |
Harriet Evans | 9 | 0 | Sickness | |
Elizabeth Glasier | 8 | 0 | Imbecile | |
Sarah Watkins | 6 | 0 | Sickness | |
Mary Lloyd | 6 | 0 | ditto | |
Mary Leary | 8 | 0 | Nearly blind | |
Esther Hunter | 8 | 0 | Nearly blind | |
Ann Hill | 7 | 0 | Blind | |
Mary Oliver | 5 | 0 | Deserted by husband | |
Sarah Dowson | 7 | 0 | Insufficient earnings | |
Emma Boswell | 6 | 0 | Sickness | |
Ann Freeland | 10 | 0 | Infirm | |
Sarah Milmoth | 6 | 0 | Sickness | |
Eliza Edghill | 6 | 0 | Insufficient earnings | |
Mary Revell | 21 | 0 | Epileptic | |
Mary Hill | 5 | 0 | Insufficient earnings | |
Mary Ford | 8 | 0 | Sickness | |
Mary Fairbairns | 7 | 0 | ditto | |
Mary Stephenson | 15 | 0 | Imbecile | |
Mary Dooling | 17 | 0 | Sickness | |
Mary Ann Brown | 10 | 0 | Insufficient earnings | |
Lydia Reed | 7 | 0 | Rheumatism | |
Mary Dalley | 7 | 0 | Sickness | |
Mary Price | 6 | 0 | Paralysis |
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