Welcome to Tooting180
Restoring the names, and dignity, of the forgotten children of Tooting
In the winter of 1848–49, nearly 200 children died in a cholera outbreak at a private pauper 'farm' in Tooting, South London. Their names were largely unrecorded in the histories. The man who ran the institution was tried for manslaughter, but ultimately acquitted. His name survived. Most of the children's did not.
Tooting180 is an ongoing research project to identify each of those lost children and tell their stories. With the help of volunteers and archival research, we are building a database of the boys and girls who passed through the Tooting and Brixton pauper farms — many of them poor, orphaned, or displaced by circumstance.
So far, we have:
- Identified 849 children who lived in the Drouet institutions in Tooting and Brixton
- Tracked 1,828 movements of children into and out of the homes
- Confirmed the identities of 24 of the 180 cholera victims
This is only the beginning. With your help we can recover more names, reconnect families scattered through the system, and give these children the dignity of remembrance.
Find out more about the Tooting180 project
On this day...
- Benjamin BAILEY was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- James BAKER was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Michael BAKER was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Henry BANKS was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Albert BELL was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Horatio Nelson BIRD was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Abraham BIRT was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- John BIRT was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Alfred BLOWER was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Charles BREWER was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Alexander BULL was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- William BULL was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Jane CALLEN was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Alfred CLARK was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Arthur CLARK was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Charles CLEVERLY was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Frederick COUGHLIN was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Jonathan COUGHLIN was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Louisa COUGHLIN was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- William COUGHLIN was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- William DAY was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- John DELAY was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Robert DIPPER was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Charles DREW was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- James EVANS was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Edwin GASCOIGNE was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Fanny GEORGE was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- James GROUT was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Joseph GROUT was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Thomas HACKETT was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- James HOBDEN was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Charles HORTON was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Julia HURLEY was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Henry ISLES was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- James JARVIS was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Robert KING was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- William KING was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Alfred MASON was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Thomas Collins MERIDETH was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Edward METHERELL was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Eliza MURPHY was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- George NICHOLSON was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Ann PAMPHILION was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- William PAMPHILION was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- William PAXTON was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Joseph PERRY was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- William PRIOR was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Peter PROCTER was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- William RICKETTS was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- William ROSSER was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- George RYAN was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Edward SAMPSON was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Henry SIMMONDS was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Ralph SIMMONDS was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- George SMITH was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- James SMITH was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Thomas SMITH was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- William SMITH was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- James SPINKS was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- George STIRLING was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- George STYLES was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Henry THOMAS was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Joseph WALLINGTON was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Samuel WALLINGTON was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- John WATKINS was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- James WELCH was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- John WESTLEY was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- George WHITTON was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Mary WOOD was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- William WOOD was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Charles ALNAS was transferred from Brixton Grove House to Workhouse on this day in 1850.
- Sarah BENNETT left Brixton Grove House on this day in 1851.
- Alfred CLARK left Brixton Grove House on this day in 1851.
- Elizabeth GROUT left Brixton Grove House on this day in 1851.
- Mary POPE left Brixton Grove House on this day in 1851.
- Mary SHEA was transferred from Brixton Grove House to Workhouse on this day in 1851.
- George SMITH left Brixton Grove House on this day in 1851.
Project status - May 2025
Recent additions to our archive include:
- Admission and discharge records from Newington St Mary, Clerkenwell Workhouse, and Southwark Christ Church workhouses
- Entries from Islington Infant Poor House mentioning Tooting
- Transcriptions of the inquests and trial
- Ongoing expansion of our searchable database
See our Analysis page for a deeper look at the stats
Chart 1. Pauper farm residents in the database, by gender