Long-term Workhouse Inmates, St Giles-in-the-Fields and St George Bloomsbury, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mary Price | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Mary Campbell | 15 | 0 | Bad health | no. |
Elizabeth Antill | 17 | 0 | Paralysed | yes. |
Joanna Collins | 8 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Ann Ridley | 6 | 0 | Absence of husband, three children | no. |
Elizabeth Furze | 11 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Mary King | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Jane Riche | 8 | 0 | Bad health | no. |
Isabella James | 8 | 0 | ditto | yes. |
Margaret Barber | 9 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Mary Farrell | 16 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ellen Clancey | 13 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elize Trinks | 10 | 0 | ditto | yes. |
Margaret Flim | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Scholefield | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Phillis Willis | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Gilbert | 20 | 0 | Palsy | yes. |
Charlotte McGary | 10 | 0 | Bad health | no. |
Sarah Porter | 10 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Sarah Standing | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Ann Fitzgerrald | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Jane Smith | 10 | 0 | Bad health | no. |
Bridget Gnynon | 9 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Mary Phay | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Louisa Pitkin | 30 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Frances Salter | 8 | 0 | ditto | yes. |
Mary McDonald | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Sawyer | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Burke | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Sawyer | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Emmerton | 11 | 0 | Bedridden | no. |
Sarah Hewson | 15 | 0 | Paralysed | no. |
Mary McCrie | 34 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Mary Marney | 16 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Rebecca Rokeby | 11 | 0 | Bedridden | no. |
Bridget Giblin | 18 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Burke | 17 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Goodman | 22 | 0 | Bad health | yes. |
Ann Hannwell | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Emma Rudd | 6 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Mary Ann Davis | 39 | 0 | Bad health | no. |
Ellen O'Farrell | 13 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Mary McCarthy | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Ann Saville | 6 | 0 | ditto | yes. |
Mary Donovan | 23 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Hdnnah Codey | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Ann Crampton | 20 | 0 | ditto | yes. |
Mary Ann Hill | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Graves | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Cousins | 30 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Brian | 6 | 0 | ditto | yes. |
Martha Cook | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Smith | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Harrison | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Catherine Herring | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Rook | 10 | 0 | ditto | yes. |
Catherine Keegan | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Cocklen | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Sweeney | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ellen Sullivan | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Foley | 17 | 0 | Bad health | no. |
Ann Rumball | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Mary Brian | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Smith | 8 | 0 | Bad health | no. |
Mary O'Brien | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Mary Ann Pisey | 14 | 0 | ditto | yes. |
Phcebe Sears | 5 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Ellen Donovan | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Ann Davis | 6 | 0 | Bad health | no. |
Martha Bradley | 6 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Rebecca Jaques | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Jones | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Thomas Pisey | 14 | 0 | Old age | no. |
James Forest | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Daniel Harvey | 12 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
John King | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
James Todman | 17 | 0 | Old age | no. |
John Sullivan | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Pierre Sapet | 12 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
George Mitchell | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Joseph Groves | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Richard Cockhead | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Grabs | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Redcliffe | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Gotfried Polke | 8 | 0 | Old age | no. |
John Roache | 6 | 0 | Lame | no. |
George Green | 12 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Robert Ransome | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Joseph Holmes | 5 | 6 | ditto | no. |
Richard Franklin | 13 | 0 | Lame | no. |
James Christie | 9 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Thomas Keppell | 5 | 6 | ditto | no. |
Francis Powers | 16 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Thomas Hazlewood | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Thomas Reeves | 8 | 0 | Bad health | no. |
John Robinson | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Thomas Fitzgerald | 6 | 6 | ditto | no. |
Michael Gannon | 13 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Dale | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Robert Wicks | 13 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Timothy Lorney | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Timothy Harrington | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
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