Long-term Workhouse Inmates Chelsea in St Luke's, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
George Anson | 21 | 0 | Infirmity and old age | no. |
James Anton | 5 | 6 | Blind | no. |
Peter Brooks | 8 | 0 | Bad sight | no. |
Thomas Clothier | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
William Carr | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Evans | 5 | 0 | Crippled hand | no. |
Edward Foster | 11 | 0 | Old age | no. |
John Fell | 8 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
William Fox | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Sarah Green | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
James Gutteridge | 10 | 0 | Deaf and dumb | no. |
Edward Hill | 8 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Joseph House | 10 | 0 | Weak sight | no. |
John Hedges | 7 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
Joseph Lamb | 7 | 0 | Age | no. |
James Maich | 7 | 0 | Age and weak sight | no. |
Anthony Millench | 11 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
Henry Meggison | 8 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Henry Orme | 24 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
William Proctor | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
George Rowleyson | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
John Rush | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Alexander Thompson | 8 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
William Handscomb | 8 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
John Welltam | 8 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
Charles Wilkins | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Watts | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Atkinson | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Austin | 18 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Theresa Alsop | 22 | 0 | Subject to fits | no. |
Mary Butler | 5 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Mary Berry | 9 | 0 | Subject to fits | no. |
Phoebe Beasley | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Judith Bates | 5 | 0 | Nearly blind | no. |
Eliza Broad | 14 | 0 | Age, afflicted with lupus | no. |
Emma Chittock | 6 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Elizabeth Cook | 7 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Eliza Collard | 7 | 0 | Weak intellect | yes, for some time |
Alice Clark | 5 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
Sarah French | 9 | 0 | Disturbed intellect | no. |
Esther Groom | 8 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
Maria Hughes | 9 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
Eliza Hockey | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Jane Hockey | 15 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
Rebecca Hensley | 14 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Mary A. Humphreys | 11 | 0 | Crippled hand | no. |
Mary Hickson | 11 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Mary Herbert | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Betsy Johnson | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Susan Knott | 9 | 0 | Afflicted with St. Vitus's dance | no. |
Margaret Littlefer | 6 | 0 | Affliction | no. |
Margaret Lawson | 15 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Sophia Luther | 13 | 0 | Blind | no. |
Annie Layle | 7 | 0 | Subject to fits | no. |
Maria McMullins | 13 | 0 | Crippled hand, and old age | no. |
Catherine Newton | 20 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
Ann Parry | 23 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Mary Pitt | 9 | 0 | Old ago and infirmity | no. |
Eliza Ray | 5 | 0 | Weak intellect | yes, for some time |
Mary Ann Rowe | 8 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Ann Smith | 7 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
Ann Turner | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Eliza Vincent | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Wickor | 12 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Ann Woodstock | 20 | 0 | Old age and blind | no. |
Sarah Willis | 20 | 0 | Lunatic | no. |
Sarah Wilkins | 20 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Elizabeth Young | 8 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
David Raw | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Emma Harold | 5 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
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