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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