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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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