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Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Southwark St George the Martyr 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.

NameYrsms.ReasonSchool
George Clarke100Old age (infirmities various)no.
Francis Rimmings80dittono.
Thomas Stonehouse60dittono.
James Phipps60dittono.
William Williams50dittono.
William Howard50dittono.
Matthew Veal70dittono.
James Grandboro60ditto-no.
William Grover90dittono.
William Gomm90dittono.
Henry Stewart60dittono.
Henry Wright76dittono.
James Garrotty80dittono.
Henry Hill90dittono.
William Edwards80dittono.
John Lewis100dittono.
John Sheedy100dittono.
George Fidler70dittono.
George English66dittono.
James Paxton90dittono.
Benjamin Warren80dittono.
John Lacey90dittono.
Stephen Ridge100dittono.
William Carr80dittono.
Charles Arnott100dittono.
Barney Jones60dittono.
Thomas Wooldridge70dittono.
Robert Baker70dittono.
Richard Scrogg70dittono.
Thomas Child70Deafno.
Frederick Adams250Weak mindno.
John Gleeson90dittoyes.
Edward Fleming120Crippleno.
William Chart50dittono.
Henry Jenkins80dittono.
George Telle50dittono.
Edward McNaughton100dittono.
John Pearson100Old age (infirmities various)no.
William Callaghan120dittono.
William Bicknall60dittono.
Richard Clarke100dittono.
Elizabeth Tatnell120dittono.
Lauretta Brotherton130dittono.
Ann Herbert60dittono.
Sophia Crawley80dittono.
Elizabeth Brewer100dittono.
Elizabeth Crane120dittono.
Elizabeth Nicholls70dittono.
Elizabeth Webb80dittono.
Jane Mayer140dittono.
Charlotte Nisbett80dittono.
Sophia Rawlings100dittono.
Esther Eales130dittono.
Ann Petre100dittono.
Fanny Axon66Blindno.
Maria Axon130dittono.
Mary McCloud110Weak mindno.
Elizabeth Sampson50dittono.
Elizabeth Josephs56dittono.
Sarah Cooper70Old age (infirmities various)no.
Sarah Welch230dittono.
Ann Bazin120dittono.
Louisa Ireland60dittono.
Margaret Marshall80dittono.
Ann Johnson100dittono.
Henrietta Freestone50Old age (infirmities various)no.
Elizabeth Ireland90dittono.
Sarah Ridout160dittono.
Ann Mayo70dittono.
Elizabeth Jenks200dittono.
Lucretia Tatnell90dittono.
Sarah May70dittono.
Mary Ann Curtis60dittono.
Ann Rance200dittono.
Sarah Job70dittono.
Susannah Calloway70dittono.
Ann Arnott100dittono.
Esther Platt60ditto, and crippleno.
Caroline Church60dittono.
Ann Parker56dittono.
Mary Roper80dittono.

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