Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Clerkenwell, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Sarah Dunkley | 7 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Susan Brooks | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Davis | 16 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Susan Wright | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Margaret Duff | 15 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
Susannah Rawlings | 9 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Caroline Able | 9 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Mary Harrow | 6 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
Mary Gibbons | 20 | 0 | Insane | no. |
Mary Bailey | 12 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
Jane Plummer | 12 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Mary Gray | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Catharine Tulk | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Eliza Morris | 20 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
Elizabeth Venour | 6 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Sophia Bedford | 6 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
Elizabeth Dent | 6 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Mary Hughes | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Watts | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Jane Fookes | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Jane Higgins | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Catharine Watkins | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Seymour | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Jane Watson | 6 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
Caroline Wheel | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Jane Willey | 7 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Hannah Green | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Ann Bolton | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Ann Richards | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Eleanor Silvester | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Boys | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Gilbert | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Hannah Judwine | 6 | 0 | ditIo | no. |
Elizabeth Cleghorn | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ellen Hare | 9 | 0 | Permanently lame | no. |
Harriet Keates | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Jane Brown | 19 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Martha Ashton | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Major | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Jones | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Jane Crockford | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Charles Ward | 17 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Ann Lewis | 7 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Isabella White | 5 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Mary Matthews | 5 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
Sophia Pitt | 5 | 6 | Permanently lame | no. |
Letitia Adams | 13 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Jane Lockwood | 14 | 0 | Insane | no. |
Matilda Peeling | 18 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Fletcher | 26 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Harriet Penning | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Jane King | 11 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Elizabeth Wright | 20 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Sarah Butler | 6 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
Ann Crockford | 6 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Esther Hart | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Gunningham | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Young | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Eliza Jordan | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Matilda Cave | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Prime | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Dix | 12 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
Martha Warren | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Eliia Cousins | 18 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Dobbins | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Rose Harradine | 6 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Margaret Boyton | 5 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Mary Collins | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Selward | 14 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
Thomas Syret | 20 | 0 | Insane | no. |
John Cropper | 10 | 0 | Blind and lame | no. |
Amos Esquilant | 7 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
William Castle | 9 | 0 | Insane | no. |
William Stringle | 6 | 0 | Subject to fits | no. |
William Heatley | 6 | 0 | Blind | no. |
Samuel Brown | 10 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
William Williams | 13 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
William Warner | 9 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
Richard Stringle | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Henry Boyden | 7 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
William Wilson | 17 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
Samuel West | 20 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
George Naden | 20 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
John Slater | 11 | 0 | Permanently lame | no. |
William Howard | 16 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Thomas Jarrett | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Smith | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Power | 40 | 0 | ditto | no. |
George Linder | 20 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
William Jones | 6 | 0 | Permanently lame | no. |
John Craighead | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Rowley Thelwell | 16 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Henry Helsdon | 5 | 0 | Permanently lame | no. |
John Hart | 5 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
Benjamin Elliott | 14 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Elizabeth Dudley | 5 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
Sarah Denton | 7 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
Elizabeth Bartholomew | 5 | 0 | ditto- | no. |
Alice Davis | 5 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Ann Holden | 5 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
Mary Buskin | 7 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Elizabeth Brown | 11 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Mary Higgins | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Jones | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Morley | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Jane Priest | 9 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Ann Rivets Cowen | 20 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Mary Turrell | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Hines | 7 | 0 | Blind | no. |
John Smith | 5 | 0 | Insane | no. |
William Harwood | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
James Turner | 20 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
Alfred Bilby | 11 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Thomas Fletcher | 7 | 0 | Nearly blind | no. |
Thomas Millward | 8 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
James Milman | 10 | 0 | Permanently lame | no. |
William Carter | 20 | 0 | Ditto | no. |
John Weatherhall | 7 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Christian Cook | 17 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
George Rawle | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Stowe | 18 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Geddes | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Frederick Wells | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Gurney | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Jones | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Robert Boddington | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Barnett | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Osborne | 8 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
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