Lynsted with Kingsdown Society

1841 Census for Milton Workhouse

Society Notes:

• The general absence of occupations recorded in this table - a "census" in 1841 was little more than a simple head-count.
• Census data from our two major workhouses (Milton and Faversham) illustrate a number of things, e.g.:
  • which occupations (from the 1851 Census onwards) were in decline in the Eighteen and Nineteenth Centuries
  • how families and communities responded to poverty in old-age and infirmity
  • how the loss of bread-winner led to whole families being placed in workhouses
  • how single women with children faced abandonment
  • the plight of seasonal workers, the feckless or borderline criminals

Each work-house applied its own regimes of occupying the hands of their inmates. This varied between breaking stones, picking okum (pulling old ropes apart for use in sealing gaps between ships’ timbers with added tar), and simple gardening to help feed the inmates.

COVER TEXT

I CERTIFY and declare that the Account of the Population of the District for which I am Enumerator, contained in this Schedule, has been truly and faithfully taken by me, and that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, the same is correct, so far as may be known.
Witness my hand this Seventh day of June 1841. Charles Jordan, Enumerator

I CERTIFY and declare that I have examined the Account of the Population contained in this Schedule, which is signed by the Enumerator, and was delivered to me on the Eleventh day of June 1841, and have satisfied myself that it has been made as accurate as is possible.
Witness my hand this 26th day of June 1841. John Day, Registrar

I CERTIFY and declare that I have examined the Account of the Population contained in this Schedule, which is signed by the Registrar, and was delivered to me on the 30th day of June 1841, and that he has duly performed the duties required of him in regard to the same, and that no inaccuracies have been discovered therein which have not been duly corrected, as far as has been possible.

Witness my hand, this nineteenth day of July 1841. John Hinde, Superintendent Registrar

ENGLAND AND WALES: SCHEDULE FOR PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS

County of Kent(Parliamentary Division)East Kent

Hundred, Wapentake, Soke or Liberty of Milton
Parish of Milton
Township of ----------------------
City, or Borough, or Town, or County Corporate of ------------------------------
Within the Limits of the Parliamentary Boundary of the City or Borough of ---------------------
Within the Municipal Boundary of ----------------------------------

Superintendent Registrar’s District - Milton
Registrar’s District
Name of Institution, &c.Milton Union Workhouse – Parish of Milton next Sittingbourne