Long-term Workhouse Inmates in St Olave's Union, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Donovan | 13 | 0 | Illness | no. |
| Daniel Desmond | 5 | 0 | Deafness | no. |
| Edward Rawson | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Eliza Jupp | 11 | 0 | Cripple | workh. school. |
| Ann Kelly | 11 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Mary Lyons | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| George Schillic | 5 | 0 | Illness | no. |
| Joseph Braney | 24 | 0 | Epileptic fits | no. |
| Ann Bowden | 12 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Susanna Bland | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Charles Cook | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Cummings | 5 | 0 | Illness | no. |
| Martha Douglas | 6 | 0 | Blind | no. |
| Jane Douglas | 6 | 0 | Illness | no. |
| Hannah Douglas | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Grant | 5 | 0 | Subject to fits | no. |
| Mary Ann Kirby | 9 | 0 | Lame | no. |
| Mary Ann Poppleton | 8 | 0 | Lame and aged | no. |
| Eliza Phillips | 22 | 0 | Imbecility | no. |
| Elizabeth Quakely | 8 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Catherine Reardon | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Daniel Sharnden | 6 | 0 | Idiotoc | no. |
| Sarah Simmonds | 5 | 0 | Illness | no. |
| Rebecca West | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| John Eaton | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Thomas Fabey | 6 | 0 | Aged and lame | no. |
| Charles Hawkins | 19 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| John Kemp | 8 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Robert Lane | 5 | 0 | Illness | no. |
| Thomas Maddox | 19 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| William Butler Williams | 12 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Mary Buckley | 12 | 0 | Illness | no. |
| Sarah Brown | 19 | 0 | Paralysis and imbecility | no. |
| Ann Cremp | 11 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Mary Denny | 5 | 0 | Illness | no. |
| Maria Denny | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Maria Jackson | 6 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
| Sarah, Lane | 5 | 0 | Age and Infirmity | no. |
| Ellen McCarthy | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary McCarthy | 5 | 0 | Idiotcy | no. |
| Margaret Neale | 9 | 0 | Illness | no. |
| Mary Ann Pethers | 25 | 0 | Deafness | no. |
| Jane Rowland | 26 | 0 | Epileptic fits | no. |
| Elizabeth Smith | 21 | 0 | Imbecility | no. |
| William Murphy | 5 | 0 | Illness, and nearly blind | no. |
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