Long-term Workhouse Inmates in St Pancras, Middlesex, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Allday | 5 | 6 | Infirmity | no. |
| Samuel Mason | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| George Folkard | 12 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
| George Dodsworth | 10 | 4 | ditto | no. |
| George Frederick Ablett | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Brown | 6 | 0 | Crippled | no. |
| Robert Asbury | 10 | 0 | Deaf and dumb | no. |
| William Whitelock | 18 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
| William Fidler | 15 | 3 | Old age | no. |
| James Bell | 6 | 9 | Chronic rheumatism | no. |
| John Baker | 7 | 2 | Weak intellect | no. |
| James Noble | 10 | 1 | Paralyzed | no. |
| Edward Bolton | 5 | 3 | Deformed | no. |
| Charles Handscombe | 5 | 8 | Old age | no. |
| John Murphy | 12 | 10 | ditto | no. |
| William Marchant | 5 | 9 | ditto | no. |
| Henry Plume | 5 | 8 | ditto | no. |
| Samuel Brampton | 16 | 3 | ditto | no. |
| William Green | 6 | 11 | ditto | no. |
| Daniel Hargrave | 11 | 11 | Cripple | no. |
| Edward Clapperton | 10 | 6 | Idiotic | no. |
| William Zouch | 11 | 10 | Cripple | no. |
| John Wilmot | 6 | 7 | Infirmity | no. |
| Daniel Stratford | 5 | 8 | Rheumatic gout | no. |
| Joseph Yates | 7 | 8 | Old age | no. |
| John Phillips | 13 | 8 | ditto | no. |
| John Shersby | 5 | 8 | Infirmity | no. |
| Maurice Fitzgerald | 11 | 9 | Contracted hand | no. |
| Matthew Kelly | 7 | 10 | Old age | no. |
| John Barry | 6 | 3 | ditto | no. |
| John Hargrave | 11 | 7 | Cripple | no. |
| Timothy Sullivan | 6 | 1 | Old age | no. |
| James Wilmot | 6 | 10 | ditto | no. |
| John Jones | 12 | 0 | Weak intellect, caused from the kick of a horse. | no. |
| Samuel Sayers | 6 | 3 | Cripple | no. |
| Kenneth E. McKenzie | 10 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Robert Hodgkinson | 10 | 11 | Paralyzed | no. |
| Henry McDowell | 5 | 2 | Old age | no. |
| Daniel Collins | 7 | 11 | Paralyzed | no. |
| James Westbrook | 6 | 8 | Infirmity | no. |
| Thomas Ash | 6 | 7 | Old age | no. |
| Thomas Clegg | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Hunter | 20 | 8 | Defective vision | no. |
| Joseph Langley | 10 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Joseph Pallett | 10 | 4 | Rickets | no. |
| John Ellis | 17 | 4 | Old age | no. |
| Thomas Sears | 10 | 6 | Rheumatism in feet | no. |
| John Robertson | 5 | 2 | Imbecility | no. |
| John Kendrick | 8 | 7 | Old age | no. |
| Henry Thomas | 10 | 5 | Idiotic | no. |
| James Roberts | 5 | 4 | Old age | no. |
| Thomas Todd | 60 (all his life). | 0 | Idiotic | yes. |
| Joseph Mullins | 7 | 6 | Old age | no. |
| Thomas Huband | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Charles Hewlett | 8 | 10 | ditto | no. |
| Sampson Daw Gregg | 12 | 4 | ditto | no. |
| Cornelius Preston | 7 | 10 | ditto | no. |
| John Wootten | 8 | 3 | Weak intellect | no. |
| James Knight | 12 | 3 | Asthmatic | no. |
| Martin Owen | 5 | 6 | Old age | no. |
| James Pink | 5 | 4 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Burnham | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| James Hepditch | 5 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| James McKenny | 6 | 8 | ditto | no. |
| John Dunn | 12 | 1 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Gorman | 14 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Daniel Cochrane | 9 | 8 | ditto | no. |
| John Aris | 6 | 5 | ditto | no. |
| George Harrison | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Peter Tomlinson | 8 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Martin Martin | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Swanton | 5 | 3 | ditto | no. |
| William Hendon | 10 | 8 | Old age and blind | no. |
| Robert Palmer | 5 | 1 | Old age | no. |
| George Treasure | 8 | 11 | ditto | no. |
| Hugh Morris | 5 | 3 | ditto | no. |
| James Fry | 5 | 8 | ditto | no. |
| John Healey | 6 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Benjamin Cook | 23 | 6 | Cripple | no. |
| William Christie | 7 | 8 | ditto | no. |
| George Rushton | 5 | 9 | Asthmatic | no. |
| Joseph Applebee | 5 | 2 | ditto | no. |
| William Purcell | 14 | 2 | Old age | no. |
| Thomas Gannon | 5 | 3 | ditto | no. |
| Hugh Turner | 6 | 1 | Paralyzed | no. |
| Devereux Wall | 8 | 6 | Imbecility | no. |
| William Howell | 6 | 8 | Old age | no. |
| Richard Adcock | 9 | 10 | ditto | no. |
| Jane Hopkinson | 9 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Elizabeth Pegg | 23 | 6 | Old age | no. |
| Mary Warden | 24 | 10 | Defective vision | no. |
| Lydia Nesbitt | 12 | 3 | Deformed | no. |
| Mary Ann Aldridge | 7 | 1 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Irvine | 5 | 7 | Old age | no. |
| Ellen Wright | 9 | 4 | Old age and blind | no. |
| Sarah Pym | 11 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Sarah Chase | 12 | 2 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Holiday | 7 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Jones | 5 | 10 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Ann Brinkley | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Elizabeth Portbury | 7 | 8 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Small | 9 | 5 | ditto | no. |
| Maria Rivers | 10 | 1 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Wardell | 20 | 9 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Ann Sherman | 20 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Caroline Blake | 12 | 3 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Fazackerley | 12 | 3 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Fitzgerald | 9 | 11 | Widow with family | no. |
| Esther Harwood | 6 | 7 | Old age | no. |
| Mary Wicketts | 67 (all her life). | 0 | Weak intellect | yes. |
| Louisa Watson | 6 | 0 | Blind | yes. |
| Mary Walden | 6 | 8 | Paralytic | no. |
| Mary Ann Hurry | 6 | 0 | Imbecility | no. |
| Mary Ann Hope | 15 | 10 | Blind | no. |
| Mary Ann Boulstridge | 20 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| Julia Buck | 12 | 0 | Imbecility | no. |
| Maria Herdsman | 6 | 4 | Old age | no. |
| Margaret Finnimore | 5 | 1 | Old age | no. |
| Ann French | 7 | 10 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Pankhurst | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Sealey | 5 | 1 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Duggin | 5 | 5 | ditto | no. |
| Margaret Harrison | 6 | 5 | ditto | no. |
| Margaret McGrath | 17 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Webb | 6 | 1 | ditto | no. |
| Jane Seymour | 7 | 8 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Walton | 6 | 8 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Sarah Notley | 12 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Susan Bridgon | 8 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Hall | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Coney | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Joanna Sullivan | 11 | 8 | ditto | no. |
| Sophia Clark | 16 | 10 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Searle | 5 | 10 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Carter | 5 | 10 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Carter | 9 | 8 | ditto | no. |
| Martha Goodman | 5 | 5 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Rice | 6 | 9 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Dellows | 15 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Cous | 13 | 2 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Amelia King | 6 | 5 | Old age | no. |
| Matilda Parsons | 18 | 8 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Martin | 7 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Harriet Gerrard | 9 | 8 | ditto | no. |
| Catherine Connor | 6 | 2 | ditto | no. |
| Louisa Yarnold | 20 | 0 | Old age, and simple | no. |
| Joanna Lennard | 5 | 6 | Old age | no. |
| Emma Carus | 12 | 5 | ditto | no. |
| Sophia Isom | 28 | 5 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Margaret Brady | 5 | 5 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Field | 13 | 4 | Old age | no. |
| Sarah Price | 21 | 1 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Elizabeth Carter | 5 | 10 | Old age | no. |
| Susan Ledwell | 20 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Pritchard | 6 | 8 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Park | 11 | 11 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Lloyd | 9 | 8 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Hill | 7 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Wedlock | 7 | 4 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Roots | 5 | 11 | ditto | no. |
| Jane Carson | 7 | 1 | ditto | no. |
| Caroline Emmett | 15 | 11 | Weak intellect, and tumours | no. |
| Catherine Bennett | 7 | 8 | Old age | no. |
| Susanna Perdue | 7 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Sophia Day | 10 | 2 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Dean | 12 | 8 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Bird | 8 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Rachel West | 7 | 2 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Jones | 18 | 4 | ditto | no. |
| Susan Camp | 14 | 5 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Dean | 5 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Maria Cardwell | 24 | 2 | ditto | no. |
| Catherine Watkins | 19 | 9 | ditto | no. |
| Alice Parratt | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Stovell | 25 | 5 | ditto | no. |
| Bridget Ready | 8 | 4 | ditto | no. |
| Maria Francis | 5 | 8 | ditto | no. |
| Susan Bassett | 12 | 5 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Stowe | 7 | 10 | ditto | no. |
| Martha Strickland | 6 | 5 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Sleight | 6 | 5 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Sarah Nichols | 8 | 3 | Old age | no. |
| Jane Dennis | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| ElizabethDavis | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Wintle | 6 | 8 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Dowdell | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Catherine Fitzgerald | 7 | 9 | ditto | no. |
| Ellen Joyce | 8 | 4 | ditto | no. |
| Rebecca Andrews | 11 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Watson | 17 | 10 | Idiotic | no. |
| Hannah Pigeon | 9 | 10 | Old age | no. |
| Mary Chapple | 8 | 4 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Bisgrove | 8 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Forbes | 5 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Hannah Bushell | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Martha Bouston | 5 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Collins | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Davis | 5 | 10 | ditto | no. |
| Sophia Glover | 6 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Clinch | 5 | 1 | ditto | no. |
| Eleanor Davis | 9 | 11 | Old age | no. |
| Mary Seeley | 5 | 11 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Cooper | 9 | 4 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Ann Pittard | 8 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Catherine Dale | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Gibson | 13 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Morgan | 5 | 1 | Infirmity | no. |
| Sarah Watts | 13 | 8 | ditto | no. |
| Lydia Balston | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Mary Connor | 6 | 9 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Davenport | 6 | 2 | ditto | no. |
| Jane Eldridge | 5 | 11 | Imbecility | no. |
| Mary Bastie | 12 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Sarah Sersale | 6 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Bridget Fulham | 6 | 5 | ditto | no. |
| Susan Marshall | 6 | 3 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Newman | 6 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Margaret Burke | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Racket | 9 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Green | 12 | 5 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Carroll | 10 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Ann Boceau | 10 | 8 | Infirmity | no. |
| Sarah Carter | 6 | 3 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Dean | 9 | 9 | Old age | no. |
| Elizabeth Aston | 8 | 2 | ditto | no. |
| Mary White | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Harriet Sharp | 7 | 5 | ditto | no. |
| Maria Hawke | 6 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Caroline Edmonds | 10 | 7 | Infirmity | no. |
| Harriet Fell | 11 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
| Ann Gooding | 12 | 4 | ditto | no. |
| Margaret Raymond | 6 | 8 | Old age | no. |
| Sarah Voller | 10 | 1 | Imbecility | no. |
| Margaret Reading | 19 | 2 | Cripple | no. |
| Mary Hennessey | 12 | 8 | Idiotic | no. |
| Harriet Hillary | 6 | 1 | Old age | no. |
| Elizabeth Casey | 5 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Greenwood | 12 | 4 | Infirmity | no. |
| Emma Dodge | 11 | 8 | Idiotic | no. |
| Olive Green | 16 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| Harriet Prince | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Maria Peto | 13 | 5 | Old age | no. |
| Ann Waller | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Martin | 22 | 9 | Infirmity | no. |
| Elizabeth Pike | 9 | 10 | Defective vision | no. |
| Mary Ann Nash | 6 | 8 | Idiotic | no. |
| Eliza Houghton | 16 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Henrietta Allison | 7 | 6 | Idiotic | no. |
| Sarah Cooper | 5 | 7 | ditto | no. |
| Ellen Sanders | 5 | 3 | Widow, with family | no. |
| Sarah Thorogood | 15 | 2 | Deformed | no. |
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