Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Bermondsey 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 |
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Ann Berry | 5 | 8 | Blind | |
Elizabeth Fisher | 12 | 0 | Infirmity | |
Mary Pendergast | 5 | 3 | Idiotic | |
Catherine Cooper | 11 | 0 | Subject to fits | |
Maria Wedgener | 7 | 1 | Infirmity | |
Mary Edgecombe | 5 | 1 | Destitution and infirmity | |
Elizabeth Ireland | 19 | 6 | ditto | |
Bridget Barry | 7 | 6 | ditto | |
Ann Harding | 7 | 0 | ditto | |
Sarah Chandler | 9 | 6 | ditto | |
Mary Scott | 6 | 5 | ditto | |
Elizabeth Millard | 5 | 2 | Returned from County Asylum | |
Margaret Frances | 5 | 11 | Destitution and old age | |
Ann Bowman | 5 | 4 | ditto | |
Rhoda Morley | 6 | 0 | Destitution and infirmity | |
Hannah Rump | 5 | 0 | Bad eyes | yes. |
Lydia Howell | 16 | 6 | Out of place, and destitute | |
Caroline Bolton | 5 | 0 | Destitution | |
Susan Ward | 17 | 0 | ditto | |
Elizabeth Edwards | 8 | 0 | Destitution, and a cripple | |
Phoebe Pearse | 5 | 0 | Destitution | |
Ann Anders | 5 | 3 | ditto | |
Eliza Willshire | 5 | 10 | ditto | |
Mary Watkins | 7 | 11 | ditto | |
Ellen Maroney | 6 | 3 | ditto | |
Elizabeth Smith | 13 | 0 | ditto | |
Mary Maunder | 20 | 6 | Subject to fits | |
Mary Ann Caroline | 6 | 0 | Destitution and deformity | |
Mary Herring | 5 | 6 | Old age | |
Elizabeth Quinton | 10 | 0 | Infirmity | |
Elizabeth Marshall | 7 | 4 | ditto | |
Margaret Lloyd | 8 | 9 | ditto | |
Sarah Sednein | 8 | 5 | Blindness | |
Richard Whalebone | 16 | 4 | Gout | |
Rebecca Hall | 5 | 3 | Destitution, and returned from County Asylum | |
Ann Murray | 14 | 2 | Destitution, and out of place | |
Mary Luff | 6 | 0 | Infirmity | |
Sarah Cussell | 8 | 5 | ditto | |
Elizabeth Ashley | 15 | 4 | ditto | |
Martha Tonics | 55 | 0 | Deaf and dumb | |
Jane Alexander | 23 | 0 | Infirmity | |
Sarah Wick | 34 | 7 | ditto | |
Sarah Cox | 9 | 9 | ditto | |
Ann Fume | 7 | 5 | ditto | |
Mary Finnire | 12 | 10 | ditto | |
Sarah Hyde | 10 | 6 | ditto | |
Maria Charlton | 19 | 6 | Illness | |
Mary Clark | 20 | 0 | Infirmity | |
Margaret Helpin | 8 | 10 | ditto | |
June Pycroft | 5 | 7 | ditto | |
Ann Rutland | 14 | 11 | Destitution | |
Ann Howard | 7 | 10 | ditto | |
Cecilia Sarah Fordham | 5 | 8 | Infirmity, and a cripple | |
Susan Nicholls | 13 | 6 | Infirmity | |
Abigail Craggy | 5 | 0 | ditto | |
Mary Hays | 11 | 10 | ditto | |
Mary Reddy | 7 | 8 | Infirmity, and a cripple | |
Mary Ann Noble | 13 | 8 | Paralysis and idiotic | yes. |
Bessy Ann Teversham | 7 | 0 | Destitution | |
Caroline Broadway | 5 | 0 | ditto | |
Edward Sheppard | 56 | 0 | Idiotic | |
John Mugford | 11 | 4 | Destitution | |
Michael Dinon | 9 | 5 | Sickness | |
Thomas Hockley | 12 | 6 | Weak intellect | |
Samuel Gosling | 7 | 6 | Deaf and dumb | |
Robert Ayton | 5 | 11 | Destitution | |
George Diston | 6 | 3 | ditto | |
William Powell | 6 | 3 | ditto | |
William Smith | 6 | 5 | ditto | |
James Valient | 12 | 3 | Destitution and illness | |
Robert Wiltshire | 6 | 0 | Out of work | |
Bernard Doyle | 8 | 6 | Destitution | |
William Marshall | 5 | 2 | ditto | |
George Wheeler | 40 | 0 | Defective eyesight | |
John Eagle | 11 | 4 | Destitution | |
Joseph Thomas Hobbs | 5 | 6 | ditto | |
William Giles Hellier | 13 | 3 | Imbecile | |
Bartholomew Devine | 5 | 8 | Infirmity | |
Samuel Taylor | 15 | 0 | ditto | |
Thomas Vaughan | 15 | 5 | ditto | |
Thomas Godden | 19 | 5 | Weak intellect | yes. |
Thomas Kingsford | 44 | 0 | Infirmity | |
James Carter | 6 | 11 | ditto | |
Thomas Hack | 7 | 0 | Destitution | |
Samuel Dodson | 10 | 4 | Old age, and out of work | |
Robert Brown | 12 | 3 | Destitution | |
Henry Garrett | 15 | 0 | Illness | |
Charles Pearce | 5 | 9 | Infirmity | |
John Dunlap | 5 | 7 | Out of work (deaf and dumb) | |
John Llewylln | 11 | 2 | Unable to work | |
John Griffith | 8 | 2 | Paralysis | |
John Stokes | 5 | 0 | Injured spine | |
James Watt | 11 | 10 | Bad leg | |
William F. Carter | 10 | 9 | Blindness | |
William, Hatt | 18 | 0 | Destitution | |
James Sullivan | 5 | 10 | ditto | |
Hannah Gentry | 6 | 0 | Nearly blind |
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