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.
Name | Yrs | ms. | Reason | School |
---|---|---|---|---|
George Clarke | 10 | 0 | Old age (infirmities various) | no. |
Francis Rimmings | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Thomas Stonehouse | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
James Phipps | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Williams | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Howard | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Matthew Veal | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
James Grandboro | 6 | 0 | ditto- | no. |
William Grover | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Gomm | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Henry Stewart | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Henry Wright | 7 | 6 | ditto | no. |
James Garrotty | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Henry Hill | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Edwards | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Lewis | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Sheedy | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
George Fidler | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
George English | 6 | 6 | ditto | no. |
James Paxton | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Benjamin Warren | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Lacey | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Stephen Ridge | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Carr | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Charles Arnott | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Barney Jones | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Thomas Wooldridge | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Robert Baker | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Richard Scrogg | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Thomas Child | 7 | 0 | Deaf | no. |
Frederick Adams | 25 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
John Gleeson | 9 | 0 | ditto | yes. |
Edward Fleming | 12 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
William Chart | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Henry Jenkins | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
George Telle | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Edward McNaughton | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Pearson | 10 | 0 | Old age (infirmities various) | no. |
William Callaghan | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Bicknall | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Richard Clarke | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Tatnell | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Lauretta Brotherton | 13 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Herbert | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sophia Crawley | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Brewer | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Crane | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Nicholls | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Webb | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Jane Mayer | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Charlotte Nisbett | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sophia Rawlings | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Esther Eales | 13 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Petre | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Fanny Axon | 6 | 6 | Blind | no. |
Maria Axon | 13 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary McCloud | 11 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
Elizabeth Sampson | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Josephs | 5 | 6 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Cooper | 7 | 0 | Old age (infirmities various) | no. |
Sarah Welch | 23 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Bazin | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Louisa Ireland | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Margaret Marshall | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Johnson | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Henrietta Freestone | 5 | 0 | Old age (infirmities various) | no. |
Elizabeth Ireland | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Ridout | 16 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Mayo | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Jenks | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Lucretia Tatnell | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sarah May | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Ann Curtis | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Rance | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Job | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Susannah Calloway | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Arnott | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Esther Platt | 6 | 0 | ditto, and cripple | no. |
Caroline Church | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Parker | 5 | 6 | ditto | no. |
Mary Roper | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
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