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John MATLOCK (b.ca 1822-d.1884)
Gaol better than workhouse, according to Worplesdon tramp
Henry (b.1867-d.1948), William (b.1869-d.1921), Alice (b.1871-d.?), James (b.1873-d.1953) HART
Groundbreaking Hart family make Guildford Union proud
Elizabeth MARTIN (b.ca 1800-d.1833)
Uncaring son refuses to support mother in Guildford Union Workhouse
Alfred LOVELL (b.1845-d.?)
Mercantile clerk splits from family and disappears
Flora (b.1869-d.1955) and George (b.1873-d.?) JACKMAN
Twice abandoned in childhood of misery
Sarah TRIGG (b. ca1826-d.?)
Hertfordshire woman found 'Not Guilty' of poisoning her husband and son, moves to Merrow with third 'husband'
Henry SIMMONDS (b. ca1821-d. ?)
A night at the Guildford 'Spike' for a lonely vagrant
Jane MITCHELL née Chalcraft (b. 1852-d. ?); Priscilla (1873-1881); Susan (1878-1881)
Young family decimated by ill health
Agnes SLOW (b. ca1866-d.1943)
Raised in workhouse, life-changing 'marriage' to former convict
Edward MITCHELL (b. ca1800-d.1887)
Over 30 years as a Godalming bargeman before being caught stealing
Peter (b.1802-d.1881) & Sarah (b.1805-d.1883) PERCY
Age no barrier in winning battle against authorities
Stephen DALLEN (b.1813-d.1886)
Bleak life for Ockham born rag-and-bone man after both parents die in same week
Rhoda Jane PARSONS (b.1837-d.1899)
'Order of Removal' from St Marylebone to Guildford Union Workhouse
Benjamin BUTCHER (b.1835-d.1923)
Not a model soldier, but comes home a hero
Job (b.ca1814-d.1891) and Sarah (b.1794-d.1881) LIGHT
Travellers settle in Godalming
William (b.1845-d.1916) and Ellen (b.ca1852-d.1911) KILLICK
"Father Christmas" arrested for begging
Mary Ann JOYCE (b.1868-d.?) and Walter SHIRES (b.1873-d.1937)
Stark contrast in half-siblings' lives
Thomas TUCKER (b.1805-d.1882)
Leather worker in Godalming's tanning industry
Rose (b.1869-d.1944), George (b.1871-d.1902?), Ellen (b.1874-d.?), Eliza (b.1877-d.1966) HEBBURN
Abandoned children given new start in Canada
Edward SUTLIEFF (b.1838-d.1897)
Itinerant life for Guildford man following shocking deaths of parents
Jane Elizabeth BLAKE (b.1853-d.1925)
Albury Heath sub-postmistress - a "very trying woman"
Francis FAGGETTER (b.1873-d.1940)
Pirbright boy finds stability after traumatic childhood
Ellen BROWN (b.1837-d.1909)
Born Jovial Sailor Ripley, taken to Canada by brother after 33 years in the workhouse
Henry EDE (b.1816-d.1884)
Epilepsy and alcohol, an unhappy combination
Letitia HUNT (b.1845-d.1910) Death of five siblings and mother by age ten
Henry (1869-?); Fanny (1872-1961)
Martha CORNISH (b.1798-d.1882)
Cholera in Victorian London strikes family twice
Caroline ANDREWS (b. 1849-d.1912)
Rebecca (1872-1942); Henry (1873-1945); Clara (1875-1951); Joseph (1877-1944); "Infant" (1881-1881)
How did the family of a habitual fraudster from Essex end up in Guildford Workhouse?
Walter WELLAND (b.1870-d.1938)
Workhouse boy becomes loyal Army man in British & Canadian forces, serves in 3 conflicts
Diana CLARK (b.1828-d.1901)
"Thoroughly looked after" in Brookwood after brawls, drunkenness, and 23 years in the workhouse
Gertrude MACKNELL (b.1874-d.1940)
Teenager defies child migration scheme by returning home
Mary MARSHALL (b.abt.1804-d.1881)
Twice-widowed Sussex woman becomes "monthly nurse" in Guildford
Sidney ATTFIELD (b.1840-d.?) "Vagrant"
Workhouse, homeless and prisoner, all by the age of 16
William READING (b.1813-d.1886)
16-year-old transported to Australia, returns home to West Clandon
Edward FAGGETTER (b.1833-d.1884)
Pirbright man brought down by disability, poverty and domestic violence
William BILLIMORE (b.1820-d.1884)
Man with a violent temper
Henry HILL (b. 1872-d.1920)
Soap opera of lies, deception and bigamy ends in tragedy
Stephen BARRY (b. 1799-d.1886)
Six years in gaol for "uttering counterfeit coin"