Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Stepney Union, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Jane Brown | 5 | 0 | Nearly blind | no. |
Sarah Boothe | 10 | 0 | Subject to fits | no. |
Eliza Cruise | 20 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Elizabeth Clarke | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Kendall | 5 | 0 | Lameness | no. |
Sarah Matthews | 10 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Sarah Robey | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Thornton | 5 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
Mary Ward | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Waters | 18 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Elizabeth Johnson | 18 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Chappell | 10 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
Elizabeth Bennett | 20 | 0 | Nearly blind and consumptive | no. |
Susan Bardeaux | 8 | 0 | Lameness; employed as nurse | no. |
Hannah Collins | 20 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
Ann Gardner | 10 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
Eliza Hart | 20 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Mary Hall | 10 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
Sarah Kemsley | 5 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
Jane Travers | 8 | 0 | Consumptive | no. |
Mary Milligan | 20 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Mary Ann Nicholls | 6 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
Caroline Parsons | 5 | 0 | Consumptive | no. |
Sarah Witts | 18 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Caroline Wilks | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Jane Butler | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Isabella Charlton | 20 | 0 | Age and hernia | no. |
Caroline Clayton | 14 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Mary Driver | 5 | 0 | Lameness | no. |
Johannah Daley | 10 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Ellen Finnegan | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Hart | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Hoopper | 6 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
Amelia Lambert | 20 | 0 | One leg | no. |
Louisa Kennedy | 6 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
Winnifred Newell | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Pattison | 18 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
Hannah Swainson | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Jane Weedon | 20 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Ann Watt | 8 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
Lydia Currant | 20 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Ann Meadows | 10 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
Jane Nicholls | 10 | 0 | Asthma | no. |
Mary Ann Pattie | 10 | 0 | Subject to fits | no. |
Ann Townsend | 12 | 0 | Age and lameness | no. |
Margaret Wilson | 20 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Elizabeth Gingle | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ellen Reddington | 8 | 0 | Lameness | no. |
Sarah Bridereman | 5 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Martha Pullen | 6 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Elizabeth Parker | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Hannah Brett | 11 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Elizabeth Day | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Headley | 21 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
Mary Ann Morton | 5 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Ann Riley | 17 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Lydia Woolley | 5 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
Martha Jones | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Hawkins | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Francis | 5 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Thomas Lune | 10 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
James Shannon | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Wilson | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Thomas Wakeham | 8 | 0 | Lameness | no. |
Benjamin Burgess | 8 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
John Campbell | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Thomas Doolan | 5 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
James Hogarth | 5 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
John Newton | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Samuel Piett | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
James Windsor | 10 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Peter Deolin | 5 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
John Niff | 8 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
John Pulley | 7 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
William Walker | 5 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
David Crole | 6 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
James Chattaway | 7 | 0 | Lameness | no. |
James Callaghan | 8 | 0 | Fractured leg | no. |
James Davey | 10 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
John Kirk | 6 | 0 | Lameness | no. |
William Smith | 19 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
William Turtle | 8 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
Robert Bruce | 7 | 0 | Partly blind | no. |
George Drummond | 10 | 0 | Paralysed | no. |
William Springate | 6 | 0 | Lameness | no. |
Thomas Tansley | 6 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
Christopher Cleary | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Whealley | 10 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
David Sutter | 6 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
John Grimmer | 8 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
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