Long-term Workhouse Inmates Kensington, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Eliza Ashton | 14 | 0 | Illness | no. |
James Arundale | 14 | 0 | Employed as messenger | no. |
Maria Anderson | 10 | 0 | Old age | no. |
James Blundy | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Charles Batchelor | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Bigley | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Brown | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Margaret Barnett | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Cocking | 13 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Stephen Collins | 7 | 0 | Subject to fits | no. |
Mary Ann Citre | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Susan Cartwright | 5 | 0 | Illness | no. |
Thomas Cowley | 7 | 0 | Bad legs | no. |
Elizabeth Devonport | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
John Doolun | 8 | 0 | A cripple | no. |
William Edwards | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Mary Elgin | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Freeman | 5 | 0 | Bad legs | no. |
Elizabeth Griffiths | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Maria Gale | 6 | 0 | Subject to fits | no. |
James Groves | 11 | 0 | Old age and illness | no. |
Margaret. Gudgeon | 6 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
James Gray | 7 | 0 | Chronic rheumatism | no. |
Jessie Garrick | 6 | 0 | Imbecility | no. |
Ann Hendry | 7 | 0 | Old age and illness | no. |
Gwyne Howell | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Hemmings | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Iken | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Jonathan Key | 5 | 0 | Bad legs | no. |
Sarah Leetion | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Sarah Midwinter | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Harriet Marriott | 11 | 0 | Deaf and dumb | no. |
William Miller | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Harriet Morton | 6 | 0 | Paralysed | no. |
Mary Oldbury | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
James Platt | 6 | 0 | Insane | no. |
Elizabeth Peak | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Peat | 11 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Mary Parrott | 11 | 0 | Paralysed | no. |
Hannah Plim | 7 | 0 | Palsy | no. |
Rebecca Plim | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Elizabeth Parry | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Hugh Ross | 12 | 0 | Bad legs | no. |
Ann Roberts | 10 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Fanny Steward | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Richard Symons | 11 | 0 | Imbecile, and deaf and dumb | no. |
William Stevens | 7 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Mary Slade | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Rebecca Treeve | 12 | 0 | Illness | no. |
William Tilbury | 5 | 0 | Blind | no. |
Catherine Thomas | 8 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Rebecca Vindin | 8 | 0 | Bad legs | no. |
Rebecca Venters | 7 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Margaret Weir | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Hannah Wheatley | 12 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Edward Westwood | 9 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
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