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CROYDON UNION

The Board of Guardians meet weekly at the workhouse at Duppa’s Hill, which contains 220 inmates. 
Thomas Tilbury Haydon, master; 
Mrs Ann Haydon, matron.

Source: Post Office 1846 -   p517  
Submitted by Betty Longbottom


Croydon consists of the following Parishes:
  • Addington
  • Beddington
  • Coulsdon
  • Croydon
  • Merton
  • Mitcham
  • Morden
  • Penge
  • Sanderstead
  • Wallington
  • Woodmansterne

Inmates

Workhouses, List of those visited in 1867 With Name of the Workhouse and numbers of  insane, idiotic, and imbecile inmates.
WORKHOUSE MALE FEMALE TOTAL
Croyden 1 8 9
Source: 22nd Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy to the Lord Chancellor. Submitted by Alan Longbottom.

Records 

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