Long-term Workhouse Inmates in St Margaret and St John, Westminster, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Whaling | 7 | 0 | Sickness | no. |
| James Brierly | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| John Birch | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Eadon | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| James Coleman | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William McClatchie | 5 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| William Stubbs | 7 | 0 | Paralysis and loss of speech | no. |
| William Barnes | 7. | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Richard Barnett | 6 | 9 | ditto | no. |
| George Holloway | 5 | 2 | ditto | no. |
| Daniel Shatford | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Nicholls | 5 | 2 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Cook | 6 | 1 | Age and epilepsy | no. |
| George Holdsworth | 6 | 3 | Old age | no. |
| Charles Coleman | 5 | 1 | Injury to back | no. |
| Henry Wheatley | 7 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Thomas Fitch | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Cobb | 5 | 3 | Old age | no. |
| John Strachan | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| James Redman | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Cave | 6 | 1 | ditto | no. |
| Richard Bunduck | 5 | 3 | ditto | no. |
| James Norris | 5 | 5 | ditto | no. |
| George Matthews | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Witticks | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Sullivan | 5 | 1 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Denford | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Rosentreder | 5 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Francis Metcalfe | 7 | 0 | Sickness | no. |
| Joseph Allen | 7 | 0 | Bad. legs | no. |
| James Read | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Carl Witte | 6 | 6 | Sickness | no. |
| Sarah Terry | 5 | 8 | Old age | no. |
| Elizabeth Hobbs | 7 | 0 | Weak intellect and age | no. |
| Elizabeth Barrow | 5 | 5 | Old age | no. |
| Mary Hines | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Holloway | 5 | 2 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Abrahams | 5 | 5 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
| Eliza Ward | 5 | 4 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Mary Ann Billingham | 7 | 0 | Lameness | no. |
| Elizabeth Squibb | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Ann Bryant | 7 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
| Mary Ann Smith | 6 | 5 | Weakintellect | no. |
| Ann Rutt | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Elizabeth Wade | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Amelia Burrows | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Caroline Leach | 7 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Eliza Blackwell | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Ann Wilkes | 5 | 4 | Blindness | no. |
| Mary Ann Clift | 7 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| Frances Shingles | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Elizabeth Ward | 7 | 0 | Age and weak intellect | no. |
| Mary Preston (or Cockrane) | 7 | 0 | Age and sickness | no. |
| Elizabeth Ince | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Jane Reid | 6 | 0 | Age and blindness | no. |
| Margaret Heelis | 7 | 0 | Sickness | no. |
| Sarah Graben | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Eliza Powell | 6 | 8 | Partial blindness | no. |
| Ann Rosentreder | 5 | 7 | Husband being a pauper | no. |
| Martha Dimelo | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Charlotte Cottle | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Underhill | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Margaret Sargeant | 5 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Mary McEwen | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Jane Teece | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Margaret Caswell | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Selina Evans | 7 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
| Ann Dixon | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Frances Pranklen | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Jane Nicholls | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Ramsay | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Rebecca Chambers | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Moon | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Twelves | 5 | 2 | ditto | no. |
| Nicholas Stables | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Eleanor Pyle | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Matilda Bradford | 7 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Eleanor Watkins | 7 | 0 | Sickness | no. |
| Elizabeth Brett | 7 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| Eliza Humphris | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Charles Whibley | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Samuel Fleming | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Mort | 5 | 7 | Defective sight | no. |
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