SELECTEDBIOGRAPHIES Sarah EARL née Barrett (b.1801-d.1882) A ‘taste’ of the good life for Godalming couple Elisha WYATT (b.1799-d.1885) Merrow man's moment of madness with axe Albert FREELOVE (b.1869-d.1955) Guildford Union Workhouse orphan makes career as a tailor Mary Ann (b.1835-d.?), Hannah (b.1869-d.1949), Edward (b.1873-d.1931) CARVER A life enveloped in mystery for Ripley orphan, but success for two of her children after being Workhouse scholars Elizabeth née Kercher (b.1842-d.1942), William (b.1868-d.1892), Sarah (b.1871-d.1893) FROGLEY Teenager Sarah causes havoc in Guildford Union Workhouse; mother Elizabeth reaches 100th year Edward Joseph HALSEY (b.1836-d.1905) First experience of local administration at Guildford Union for prominent local businessman Chairman of the Guildford Union Board of Guardians 1880-1884 Elizabeth Amelia CHILTON (b.1846-d.1933) Second marriage at 76 for ex-Guildford Union Workhouse inmate William (b.1844-d.1890), Harriet (b.1874-d.1968), Catherine (b.1876-d.1953) CATES Imprisonment then Workhouse for Royal Marine, but better fortunes for his daughters Joseph HALL (b.1804-d.1984) 'Paper trail' to the Workhouse for a journeyman papermaker Enoch PERRY (b.1861-d.1937) 'The Barnes Tragedy' - daughter of Guildford Union 'casual' dies in shocking manslaughter case George (b.1820-d.1894) & Arthur (b.1876-d.1934) WOODGER Blindness and wife's early death forces Wisley man and young son into Workhouse Mary Ann (b.1841-d.1910) & Charles (b.1874-d?) BIGGINS Guildford sends 15-year-old to Grimsby as a 'fishing apprentice' Sarah SPOONER née Hall (b.1851-d.1930) Mary Ann (1870-1918); William (1874-1945); Amelia Jane (1879-1881) Seven children, four fathers but Knaphill family bond stays strong George NOTTRIDGE (b.1810-d.1884) Woking man employed at renowned Goldsworth Nursery George (b.1842-d.1898), Ellen (b.1848-d.1915) GOODRIDGE Francis (b.1872-d.1908), Sarah (b.1874-d.1953), Anne (b.1875-d.1882), Bertha (b.1880-d.1910) Family stays strong despite father's failings George GODDARD (b.1859-d.1918) Compton-born man finds peace in Brookwood Asylum after tough time in Guildford Union Workhouse 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"
