Long-term Workhouse Inmates in St Marylebone, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ann Primrose | 10 | 0 | Old and infirm | no. |
| Harriet Wells | 6 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
| Louisa Wells | 26 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
| Mary Ann Simmons | 40 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Parish | 20 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| Sarah Loader | 10 | 0 | Old and infirm | no. |
| Ellen Collins | 10 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| Sarah Higgleton | 12 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Sarah Ansell | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Martha Brothall | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Poe | 17 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Jackson | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Lavina Hicks | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Penstead | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Cox | 5 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Ryan | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Amelia Romos | 9 | 0 | Fits | no. |
| Margaret Regan | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Mary Coleman | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Catherine Kelly | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Maria Jukes | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Thorpe | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Harriett Hood | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Mermode | 11 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| Jane Preston | 5 | 6 | Old age | no. |
| Ellen Sullivan | 20 | 0 | Bad eyes | no. |
| Bridgett Eaton | 5 | 6 | Old age | no. |
| Eliza Bangham | 5 | 6 | Rheumatism | no. |
| Sarah Gane | 12 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Elizabeth Crook | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Johanna Arnett | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Annie Henley | 7 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| Maria Doncaster | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Mary Leary | 16 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Evans | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Pendergrast | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Yates | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ellen Peppernett | 12 | 0 | Blind | no. |
| Mary Franklin | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Bridgett Norman | 14 | 0 | Blind | no. |
| Mary Ann Pelley | 11 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Elizabeth Lodur | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Birch | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Baines | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Maria Harrison | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Jane Moulder | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Susan Twynham | 13 | 0 | Fits | no. |
| Catherine Jones | 9 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Mary Taylor | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Twine | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Coles | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Jane Gilland | 16 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Towler | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Davis | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Fanny Morris | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Margaret Innall | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Caroline Beard | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Sykes | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Cox | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Catherine Fitzgerald | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Harvey | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Lyons | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Catherine Gaghan | 22 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| Esther' Suter | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Eliza May | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Green | 7 | 0 | Fits | no. |
| Caroline Flitcher | 40 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Caroline Gibbs | 6 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| Sarah Eckloff | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Catherine McCarthy | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Emily Gulliver | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Smith | 14 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Harriett Dunn | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Woodford | 13 | 0 | Fits | no. |
| Mary Preston | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Mary English | 5 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Frances Dorrington | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Brown | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Catherine Kipping | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Harriett Cartwright | 30 | 0 | Blind | no. |
| Sarah Cochrane | 13 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Sarah Paley | 7 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| Eliza White | 5 | 0 | Rheumatics | no. |
| Jane Crofton | 11 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Elizabeth Knight | 18 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Price | 14 | 0 | Blind | no. |
| Catherine Arden | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Mary Armitage | 7 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| Mary Addison | 8 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Ann Bruce | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Frances Liddett | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Collett | 12 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| Maria Brown | 9 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Elizabeth Spurritt | 5 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Martha Brown | 5 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Gathern | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Rose Burton | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary O'Brien | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Reeves | 5 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Maria Leslie | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Catherine Lloyd | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Mary Goodhall | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Bradley | 17 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| Louisa Brewer | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Rosina Killington | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Bettger | 6 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| Mary Cronan | 6 | 0 | Old and infirm | no. |
| Caroline Lemon | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Susan Rudd | 17 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Esther Peters | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Harris | 10 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Jane Dawson | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Robertson | 26 | 0 | Old and infirm | no. |
| Ann Ball | 12 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Jane Walley | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Westfield | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Margaret Poe | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Theresa Dawson | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Catherine Brummagum | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Champion | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Warner | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Cunningham | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Bridgett Hurley | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Beasley | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Browning | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Barry | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Louisa Smith | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Lumley | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Jerquet | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Charlotte Bartley | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Deborah Lynch | 8 | 0 | Bad hip | no. |
| Mary FitzGerald | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Johannah Stokes | 7 | 0 | Old and infirm | no. |
| Julia Walker | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Amelia Markwick | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Sullivan | 9 | 0 | Rheumatism | no. |
| Mary Ann Young | 18 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Johannah Husband | 8 | 0 | Bad legs | no. |
| Bridgett Barrett | 8 | 0 | Rheumatism | no. |
| Ann Hopkins | 6 | 0 | Contracted knee | no. |
| Ann Waller | 10 | 0 | Rheumatism | no. |
| Eliiabeth Cooper | 11 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Susan Lewis | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Hogsflesh | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Monteith | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Maxfield | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ellen Morrisey | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Welsh | 16 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Margaret Carroll | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Bridgett Concannon | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Catherine Dwyer | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Whitehand | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Eliza Gray | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Bridgett Molloy | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Bridgett Pendergrast | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Orchard | 10 | 0 | Fits | no. |
| Elizabeth Green | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Caroline Knight | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Plant | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Sarah Thompson | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Dillon | 5 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| Maria Lewis | 5 | 0 | Asthma | no. |
| Sarah Babbington | 5 | 0 | Fits | no. |
| Elizabeth Stevens | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Rebecca Shepherd | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Margaret Shean | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ellen Casey | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Probert | 30 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Maria Miles | 25 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
| Susannah Goddard | 9 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Ann Mason | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Leigh | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Thomas | 16 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Shorter | 8 | 0 | Rheumatism | no. |
| Ann Curtis | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Elizabeth Catchpole | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Craven | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Panario | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Miller | 16 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| Elizabeth Turner | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Mary Jakin | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Catherine Bridgeman | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Hamilton | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Janet Orde | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Faulkner | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Catherine Lloyd | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Drew | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Dean | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Isabella Stuart | 21 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Jane Hopkins | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Sadgrove | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Woodley | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ellen Harrington | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Dodd | 30 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Ball | 6 | 0 | Rheumatism | no. |
| Elizabeth Tunk | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Sarah Cox | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Jane Holloway | 21 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Moody | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Yardley | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Fanny Hughes | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Payne | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Maynard | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Julia Woodhouse | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Perry | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Susan Eyles | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Johnson | 13 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Maria Davis | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Hubbard | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Coster | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Green | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Ann Dodd | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Catherine Sumner | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Emma Laning | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Wood | 18 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Webber | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sophia Calvert | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Dewar | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ellen Tate | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Cecelia Kenny | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Kezia Chester | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Murray | 25 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Eleanor Brennan | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Dobbin | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Harriett Matthews | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Catherine Morris | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Eleanor Windsor | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Jane Mobbs | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Susan Taylor | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Ray | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Andrews | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Kelly | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Catherine McClode | 5 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Collier | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Wilcox | 17 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sophia Wood | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Phoebe Towler | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Talbot | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Richard Francis | 5 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| James Peglar | 9 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| John Thornton | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| James Lawrence | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| James Robinson | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Samuel Hooper | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Rodman | 9 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas McDowell | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Dean | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Robert Slade | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Joseph Abbott | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| George Crook | - | - | ditto | no. |
| James Lavington | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Richard Stiff | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Richard Collis | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Allen | 16 | 0 | Dumb | no. |
| George Scharff | 8 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Charles Hutchings | 8 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
| William Bursell | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Michael Hanlow | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Mills | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Edmond Hosty | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| George Green | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Jasper Jewell | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Chesterman | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Alexander Carphine | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Henry Stoddart | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Smith | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Newbury | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Turner | 8 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
| John Harrison | 25 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| Charles Connor | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| George Deal | 10 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| Robert Salmon | 13 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Samuel Laney | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Mullins | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Murphy | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Richard Williamson | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Joseph Bowden | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| James Walker | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Robert Frewer | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Brown | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Blake | 5 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| George Hancock | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Patrick Canary | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Joseph Redfern | 20 | 0 | Cripple | workh. school. |
| Charles Galloway | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| George Higgins | 13 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Charles Baker | 7 | 0 | Weak intellect | workh. school. |
| John Brooks | 7 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| George Penny | 8 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
| Peter Hawkins | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| John Shelbey | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Cross | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Cook | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Patrick Kelly | 9 | 0 | Blind | no. |
| Christopher Hillyard | 8 | 0 | Old and crippled | no. |
| Charles Manners | 14 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Jacob Welsh | 5 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
| John Osterman | 8 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Thomas Eyres | 5 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| George Cooper | 20 | 0 | Blind | workh. school. |
| John Stevens | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Joseph Holmes | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| James Holland | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Wilkinson | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Stevens | 68 | 0 | Blind | no. |
| James Heywood | 6 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| John Hall | 8 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| John Higgins | 13 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Sheen | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Samuel Gale | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| William Millard | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Wake | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Lloyd | 6 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
| Richard Hardinge | 8 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Charles Brewer | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Gleason | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Richardson | 14 | 0 | Epilepsy | no. |
| Jacob Jones | 10 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| John Fuller | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Richard Fowler | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Stephen Slade | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Barber | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Maddox | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Joseph Fawn | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Charles Reynolds | 5 | 6 | Cancer | no. |
| Edward Thompson | 10 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
| William Grubb | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Long | 34 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| James Pope | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Comfort Hickman | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Edward Powell | 19 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| George Gay | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Bokes | 7 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
| William Riller | 18 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
| Thomas Davies | 5 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| John Morrisey | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Williams | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Jackson | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Dee | 10 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| Patrick Sheen | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| John Goddard | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Samuel Goddard | 9 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| John Cox | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| John Gillham | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Field | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Anderson | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Minchin | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| George Parsons | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
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