Long-term Workhouse Inmates St George Hanover Square (Little Chelsea), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eliza Walton | 9 | 0 | Having a family | no. |
| Christiana Jobbins | 6 | 0 | Sickness | no. |
| Fanny Adams | 16 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann. Minton | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Grace Read | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Grandison | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Hogg | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Payne | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Amy Moody | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Smith | 13 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah McCome | 7 | 0 | Unable to work | no. |
| Ellen Donavan | 5 | 6 | Sickness | no. |
| Jane. Brown | 18 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Bowlder | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Fanny Baxter | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Eleanor Hitch | 8. | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Susan Rurnbold | 10 | 0 | Blind | no. |
| Jane Williams | 7 | 0 | Sick | no. |
| Mary Ann Barker | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Tagg | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Harriet Weildon | 16 | 0 | Distress | no. |
| Sarah Parry | 9 | 0 | Sickness | no. |
| Christ. Cunningham | 14 | 0 | Unable to work | no. |
| John George | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Thornicraft | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Emma Rascliffe | 17 | 0 | Sick | no. |
| Susan Chittenden | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Vinton | 5 | 0 | Unable to work | no. |
| Frances Purser | 8 | 0 | Sick | no. |
| Mary Wade | 9 | 0 | Having a child | no. |
| Mary Ann Williams | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ellen Passan | 5 | 6 | Sickness | no. |
| Sarah Vincent | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Vincent | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Jones | 10 | 0 | Blind | no. |
| Susan Franklin | 11 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| Mary Willis | 18 | 0 | Sickness | no. |
| Martha Smith | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Betty Dickenson | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Atkins | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Phillimore | 19 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Alford | 18 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Horton | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
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