SELECTED
BIOGRAPHIES

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"