Long-term Workhouse Inmates St George Hanover Square (Mount Street), 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elijah Abbey | 7 | 0 | Infirm | no. | |
| Joseph Ayliff | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. | |
| Maria Antonio | 7 | 0 | Sickness | no. | |
| Thomas Bishop | 23 | 0 | ditto | no. | |
| Elizabeth Bailey | 9 | 0 | Bad legs | no. | |
| John Chaplin | 13 | 0 | Infirm | no. | |
| William Craft | 38 | 0 | ditto | no. | |
| Jerry Cocklin | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. | |
| William Cottrell | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. | |
| John Dolan | 6 | 0 | Subject to fits | no. | |
| James Flack | 6 | 0 | Infirm | no. | |
| Joseph Greenlees | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. | |
| Joseph Goss | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. | |
| Timothy Goss | 70 | 0 | Idiotic | workh. school | |
| Richard Godfrey | 7 | 0 | Infirm | no. | |
| Robert Hodson | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. | |
| Eliza Howell | 20 | 0 | Fits | no. | |
| Sarah Hughes | 20 | 0 | Infirm | no. | |
| Joseph Lerner | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. | |
| Sarah Nicholls | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. | |
| Richard Olive | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. | |
| Ilichard Parsons | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. | |
| George Platt | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. | |
| Charles Read | 0 | Idiotic | no. | ||
| John Ryan | 14 | 0 | Infirm | no. | |
| Robert Sieviere | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. | |
| Joseph Sale | 7 | 0 | Idiotic | no. | |
| Henry Sanford | 5 | 0 | Deaf and dumb | no. | |
| Margaret Sowerby | 7 | 0 | Infirm | no. | |
| Abigail Such | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. | |
| Elizabeth Siddons | 21 | 0 | Weak mind | no. | |
| George Taylor | 7 | 0 | Sickness | no. | |
| Amand Thomas | 7 | 0 | Infirm | no. | |
| Elizabeth Whitby | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. | |
| Joseph Webb | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. | |
| Francis Pratt | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. | |
| Edward Corfield | 13 | 0 | ditto | no. | |
| Joseph Pryor | 30 | 0 | ditto | no. | |
| John Churchill | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. | |
| Samuel Akehurst | 20 | 0 | Sickness | no. | |
| William Duval | 12 | 0 | Infirm | no. | |
| William Bishop | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. | |
| John Williams | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. | |
| Ann Furnis | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. | |
| Margaret Gordon | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
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