The first inmates to the Workhouse were admitted in September 1862 so the 1871 National Census was the first opportunity to formally record their details.. As per any census, those details included status ( M = married, s= single or w= widow ), age, occupation, if any, and place of birth. It reported any disabilities, Idiot, Lunatic or Blind. Apart from the first three names heading the list, the Master, Matron and Nurse, all the rest of the inmates were registered as paupers. What I’ve yet to find out on this census and subsequent ones I have listed in my History is where all the rest of the staff, nurses, helpers, cooks etc were when the census was taken.
If you read my chapter on the start of the Workhouse in Deanhouse you will see a paragraph about the concern of the local inhabitants. One can understand why, when out of the 202 inmates in the first census, only two were from Netherthong, Hannah Booth and Benjamin Gill, whilst eight were from Ireland. To save you counting 22 are registered as Idiots, two as Lunatics and two as blind. There are also 45 children aged from a few months to 18 years and, when they were over five years old, they were classed as scholars.
If you want to read more about the early Workhouses, then I can recommend, Workhouse – The People – The Places – The Life Behind Doors by Simon Fowler. Published 2007. ISBN 978 1 905615 03 2. Quite disturbing in parts – actually lots of parts.
Name | Status | Age | Occupation | Place of Birth |
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James Wood | M | 48 | Master | Cheshire |
Emma Wood | wife | 38 | matron | Lancashire |
Mary Nettleton | Widow | 52 | nurse | Leeds |
Fred Cheetham | s | 30 | tenter | Yorkshire |
John Higgins | Widow | 75 | farm servant | Pontefract |
Wm.Johnson | s | 65 | waever | Meltham |
Nancy Godley | s | 28 | servant | Huddersfield |
Mary malther | s Idiot | 58 | Huddersfield | |
Mary Rawson | s | 52 | housekeeper | Lancashire |
Wm. Rawson | 8 | scholar | Huddersfield | |
Abel Teedale | s | 35 | tenter | Huddersfield |
Mary Hirst | s Idiot | 42 | Huddersfield | |
Hannah Lindley | s | 50 | servant | Wooldale |
Emma Baipps | s Idiot | 27 | Huddersfield | |
Hannah Taylor | s Idiot | 34 | Huddersfield | |
John Taylor | 6 | scholar | Huddersfield | |
Joseoh Brootle | s | 56 | boatman | Deighton |
Ellen Kelley | s | 27 | servant | Ireland |
Walter dawe | Widow | 73 | labourer | Ireland |
Andrew Brown | Widow | 57 | labourer | Ireland |
Richard Roach | s | 42 | labourer | Ireland |
Andrew Manning | Widow | 66 | labourer | Ireland |
John Mahoney | Widow | 70 | joiner | Ireland |
Mary Lynch | s | 43 | piecer | Huddersfield |
James Bradbury | Widow | 71 | waever | Saddleworth |
Lionel Hawkworth | Widow | 64 | labourer | Hoylandswain |
Wm. Stead | Widow | 66 | spinner | Bramley |
F.Hornby | 17 | scholar | Kirkheaton | |
Ann Sharpe | M | 38 | servant | Huddersfield |
Janice Heap | s | 66 | milner | Leeds |
Wm. Dugdale | s | 67 | wood sawyer | Leeds |
Wm. Brootle | 12 | scholar | Manchester | |
M.McGuire | M lunatic | 41 | stonemaon | Ireland |
Rowland halstead | s | 78 | tenter | Huddersfield |
Henry Hessler | 14 | scholar | Huddersfield | |
John Hirst | s | 61 | horse keeper | Huddersfield |
David Milnes | s | 60 | weaver | Lockwood |
Abram haigh | M | 68 | weaver | Lepton |
Thomas Ferron | Widow | 67 | cabinet maker | America |
Mary Halstead | s | 39 | feeder | Huddersfield |
Edwin Halstead | 8 | scholar | Huddersfield | |
Sarah hartley | M | 29 | piecer | Leeds |
Caroline Hartley | 6 | scholar | Leeds | |
Wm. Hartley | < 12m | Bramley | ||
James Dyson | s | 53 | weaver | Almondbury |
Mary Malther | 41 | weaver | Silkstone | |
James Rayman | 9 | scholar | Huddersfield | |
Crispin Berry | s | 56 | weaver | Lepton |
Tom Dulton | s | 22 | iron founder | Huddersfield |
Robert Sykes | s | 54 | gardener | Kirkheaton |
Mary Gaun | 44 | weaver | Lancashire | |
George Heaton | M | 59 | brush maker | Leeds |
Wm. Noland | 8 | scholar | Cheshire | |
Susan Bishop | s | 27 | servant | Northants |
John Curley | s | 24 | Huddersfield | |
James Burley | s | 55 | horse keeper | Huddersfield |
James Taylor | 12 | scholar | Huddersfield | |
Joe Dranefield | 10 | scholar | Huddersfield | |
Samuel Mellor | 8 | scholar | Huddersfield | |
Esmond Smith | 8 | scholar | Dalton | |
Edward Higgins | 6 | scholar | Leeds | |
Alfred Whiteley | s | 38 | labourer | Linthwaite |
George ?? | s | 60 | weaver | Almondbury |
George Calvert | s | 50 | stoker | Almondbury |
Nancy Thomas | s Idiot | 35 | Almondbury | |
Charles North | s | 67 | weaver | Almondbury |
Samuel Haigh | s | 70 | weaver | Almondbury |
Thomas Dearnally | s | 52 | weaver | Almondbury |
Jacob Lee | s | 17 | Blind | Almondbury |
Maria Walther | s | 29 | feeder | Thurstonland |
Adam Boothroyd | s | 57 | weaver | Almondbury |
Sarah Liversedge | s | 34 | servant | Honley |
Horatio Liversedge | s Idiot | 17 | scholar | Almondbury |
Ellen Fleming | s | 36 | Almondbury | |
Mary Middington | s | 55 | servant | Yorkshire |
Wm. France | Widow | 75 | weaver | Honley |
Charles Hirst | s | 50 | Austonley | |
Mary Brootle | s | 67 | tenter | Austonley |
Mary Hinchliffe | s Idiot | 31 | Upperthong | |
Wm. Winterbotton | s | 54 | Deaf and Dumb | Cartworth |
Fanny Charlesworth | s | 54 | weaver | Upperthong |
D.Moorhouse | s | 77 | tailor | Wooldale |
Ann Booth | s Idiot | 46 | Hepworth | |
Joseph Hollingsworth | s | 36 | labourer | Cartworth |
Abel Earnshaw | s | 51 | weaver | Cartworth |
Joseph Barber | 11 | scholar | Cartworth | |
Elizabeth Beevers | s | 27 | servant | Wooldale |
Charlotte Beevers | 9 | scholar | Wooldale | |
Ben Beevers | 6 | scholar | Cartworth | |
Harriet Peace | M lunatic | 61 | Lepton | |
I Beevers | 2 | Cartworth | ||
Isaac Sanderson | s Idiot | 40 | labourer | Dalton |
Wm. Garside | s Idiot | 51 | Farnley Tyas | |
Joseph Harpin | Widow | 77 | weaver | Farnley Tyas |
Matha Harpin | s | 52 | servant | South Crosland |
Alfred Armitage | 11 | scholar | Fulstone | |
Sarah Armitage | 9 | scholar | Fulstone | |
Ruth Armitage | 7 | scholar | Fulstone | |
Hannah Booth | s | 35 | weaver | Netherthong |
Jonathan Bailey | M | 69 | spinner | Wooldale |
Jane Bailey | s Idiot | 36 | weaver | kirkburton |
George Ibbersen | s | 67 | weaver | Fulstone |
Ada Cootl | < 5m | Honley | ||
Albert Armitage | 13 | scholar | Fulstone | |
Walter Taylor | s Idiot | 27 | Golcar | |
Elizabeth Whitwane | 14 | Blind | Golcar | |
Betty Whitwane | s Idiot | 27 | Golcar | |
Joseph Whitwane | s | 75 | weaver | Huddersfield |
Betty Blackburn | s | 50 | weaver | Golcar |
Joseph Clough | s | 67 | labourer | Holme |
Martha Beevers | s Idiot | 66 | servant | Cartworth |
Sarah Wood | s Idiot | 24 | charwoman | Yorkshire |
Sarah J Wood | <12m | Honley | ||
John Hallar | s | 68 | setter | Honley |
Fenton Lubb | s Idiot | 30 | Honley | |
Elizabeth Hobson | 9 | scholar | Honley | |
Elizabeth Kaye | s | 40 | servant | Austonley |
Ben Kaye | 5 | scholar | Honley | |
John Cuttall | s | 72 | weaver | Cartworth |
Godfrey Berry | 8 | scholar | Honley | |
Tom Berry | 5 | scholar | Honley | |
Mary Schofield | s | 64 | weaver | Honley |
Jane Woodhouse | s | 81 | Linthwaite | |
David Hampshire | 5 | scholar | Honley | |
John Booth | M | 60 | labourer | Huddersfield |
Fred Hobson | s | 64 | weaver | Honley |
James Garner | s | 65 | weaver | Honley |
Fred Haigh | 1 | Honley | ||
David Boothroyd | Widow | 62 | weaver | Honley |
William Day | s | 38 | teaser | Farnley Tyas |
Eliza Haigh | s | 24 | servant | Golcar |
John Bray | s | 40 | coal miner | Honley |
George Beever | 10 | scholar | Huddersfield | |
Charlotte Hardy | s | 49 | servant | kirkburton |
Sarah Hallas | s | 40 | weaver | Kirkheaton |
Mary Hallas | 10 | scholar | Kirkheaton | |
John Woodhouse | 7 | scholar | Lepton | |
Alice Woodhouse | 4 | scholar | Honley | |
Sarah Thewlis | s Idiot | 48 | Lepton | |
Ellen Eastwood | s | 35 | charwoman | Lepton |
Joe Eastwood | 4 | scholar | Honley | |
Wm. Davidson | 13 | scholar | Huddersfield | |
James Bedford | s | 47 | blacksmith | Lepton |
Ann Fox | s Idiot | 40 | Lindley | |
John Beaumont A | s | 71 | weaver | Linthwaite |
John Beaumont B | Widow | 71 | weaver | Linthwaite |
Lavinia Gawthroyd | s Idiot | 26 | Kirkheaton | |
Jonathan Burnley | Widow | 70 | cab driver | Wetherby |
Isaac Fletcher | M | 58 | tailor | Leeds |
Ann Crowther | s | 36 | charwoman | Lockwood |
Joseph Riley | Widow | 71 | finisher | Lockwood |
Joseph Crowe | Widow | 67 | finisher | Lockwood |
Mary Hinchliffw | s | 30 | servant | liverpool |
Charles McGatti | 10 | scholar | Manchester | |
Hannah Sykes | s Idiot | 30 | Yorkshire | |
James Rayne | Widow | 63 | house painter | Marsden |
Alfred Marsden | 3 | scholar | Marsden | |
Hiram Mellor | Widow | 57 | piecer | Marsden |
John Whitehead | Widow | 69 | stone delver | Marsden |
Matthew Brookobauti | Widow | 79 | weaver | Crosland |
Sarah Shaw | s Idiot | 30 | Meltham | |
James Beardsell | Widow | 70 | weaver | Upperthong |
Benjamin Gill | s | 60 | weaver | Netherthong |
Harriet Gledhill | s | 41 | weaver | Scammonden |
Joseph Gledhill | 15 | scholar | Scammonden | |
Wm. Gledhill | 9 | scholar | Scammonden | |
Wm.Lawton | s Idiot | 65 | weaver | Cumberworth |
James Armitage | s | 66 | servant | Slaithwaite |
Samuel Barratt | Widow | 67 | cloth milner | Crosland |
Humphrey Hemingway | s | 58 | weaver | Meltham |
Friend Sykes | s | 59 | weaver | Crosland |
Thomas taylor | M | 61 | labourer | Crosland |
Thomas Oldfield | Widow | 83 | weaver | Crosland |
John Boothroyd | s | 25 | Huddersfield | |
Benjamin Pinder | s | 76 | weaver | Thurstonland |
Edmund Hardy | s | 35 | labourer | Thurstonland |
Mary Nobles | s | 34 | burler | Fulstone |
William Nobles | 2 | Honley | ||
Jonas Hinchliffe | s | 70 | finisher | Fulstone |
Christopher Hinchliffe | s | 62 | excavator | Upperthong |
Sophie Hawksworth | s Idiot | 19 | Huddersfield | |
Wm.Mordsworth | s | 74 | labourer | Upperthong |
Benoni Kaye | s | 45 | milner | Oldham |
Mary Robinson | s | 19 | servant | Wooldale |
Matthew Fretwell | s | 35 | finisher | skelmanthorpe |
Ann Robinson | <1m | Honley | ||
John Taylor | Widow | 77 | tailor | Wooldale |
John Ramsden | Widow | 75 | weaver | Wooldale |
Alan Donkersley | s | 30 | Blind | Wooldale |
Job Hinchliffe | 9 | scholar | Wooldale | |
Thomas Ellis | M | 66 | weaver | Wooldale |
John Balysforth | 12 | scholar | Slaithwaite | |
Thomas Mellor | 18 | scholar | Wooldale | |
John Booth | s | 61 | burler | Wooldale |
Henry Moorhouse | 15 | scholar | Golcar | |
Edward Gilroy | s | 74 | labourer | Ireland |
George Brooke | M | 74 | labourer | skelmanthorpe |
John Greaves | M | 74 | weaver | Wooldale |
Daniel Ruddy | s | 55 | labourer | Ireland |
Mary harrison | s | 27 | servant | Doncaster |
Maria Taylor | s | 29 | servant | Holme |
Charles Halstead | s | 31 | finisher | Huddersfield |
Luke Barley | s Idiot | 32 | white smith | Huddersfield |
George Laycock | Widow | 81 | finisher | Huddersfield |
James Boyd | s Idiot | 32 | Huddersfield |