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HM Prison, Exeter cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Roger Cornfoot - geograph.org.uk/p/1062012 |
Prisoners (or as my dad would say, their only crime was getting caught):
- Thomas Sheldrick 7 years Transportation for Larceny in 1830
- John Rookley 6 months for Larceny in Exeter in 1841
- Lucy Smith 6 months for Larceny in Northampton in 1844
- Mary Jane Austin, HM Prison, Northampton St Sepulchre 1881
- Arthur Edward Penfold sentenced to death for murder 1891
Workhouses (for these, their only crime was being poor):
- John and Elizabeth Oxford, Devonport Workhouse (1841-1853)
- Eliza Crow, Great Dunmow Union Workhouse 1842
- Jane Middleton and her infant sons, Robert Middleton and William Middleton, South Molton Union Workhouse 1851-1854
- Alfred, Edith and Tempest Pryor, Bassingbourn Union Workhouse 1851
- Elizabeth and Ellen Wilton, Great Dunmow Union Workhouse 1861
- Mary Tooze, Hackney Union Workhouse 1871
- Thomas, Mary Jane and William Flew, South Molton Workhouse 1876
- Lucy Hockley, Great Dunmow Union Workhouse 1861, 1871 & 1890
- Elizabeth Hockley, Ada Elizabeth Hockley & Joseph James Hockley
- Richard, Alfred and Walter Rowland. Wellington Union Workhouse 1881
- Mary Jane Austin, Brixworth Union Workhouse 1881
- Thomas Thompson, Kettering Union Workhouse 1881
- William Thompson, Kettering Union Workhouse 1881
- Arthur Edward Penfold, St Andrew's Workhouse, Norwich 1888
- Ann Wilton, Workhouse Gordon Road, Camberwell 1881-1909
- Jane Stone and Louisa Jane Stone, Tiverton Union Workhouse 1891
- Frederick, Eliza, Arthur and Bessie Southcott, Tiverton Union Workhouse 1891-1913
- Isaac Phillips, Romford Union House 1891-1892
- Ann Soppit, Tynemouth Parish Workhouse 1901
- Charles John Northcott, Elmore Workhouse (Tiverton) 1908
- William Hill Adcock, Dartford Union Workhouse 1911
- John Hurley Coombe Holborn Union Workhouse, Mitcham, Surrey 1911.
- Cornelius Jones, died in the Workhouse Infirmary in Cork, 1926
Other Asylums and institutions (their crime was being female):
- Elfrida Trevail, Patient at the Cornwall County Asylum 1871-1921
- Ann Bennett Trevail, Inmate of the Cornwall County Asylum, 1901
- Mary Jane Penfold London County Asylum, The Heath, Dartford 1901
- Elizabeth Ann Flew Devon County Lunatic Asylum, 1901-1908
- Sarah Ann Edmond, died at The Mental Hospital, Exminster, 1933
- Mary Trevail Netherne Hospital (formerly Surrey County Asylum or Netherne Asylum: a psychiatric hospital), Coulsdon, Surrey in 1938
- Constance Mary Helen Edmond, was resident at the The Royal Western Counties Institution For Training And Treatment Of Mental Defectives, Starcross, originally known as the Western Counties Idiot Asylum, 1939
- Mary Louisa Adcock Botterill was consigned to what was then called the Leavesden Asylum for Idiots and Imbeciles in 1947
- Josephine Grace Reich St Lawrence's Hospital (formerly Cornwall County Asylum), Bodmin 1977