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...
- Charles ADEY was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Mary Ann ARNOLD was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- James BLOWER was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Martha BROCKMAN was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Jane CLEVERLY was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- George COLE was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Emma DIGGLES was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Emily Eliza ELLIS was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- James GREENWOOD was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Isabella HALL was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Robert HALL was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- John HAMMOND was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Elizabeth HAWLEY was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Susan HAWLEY was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Emma HUGGETT was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Joseph JARVIS was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Eliza LEEKS was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- William MORGAN was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Rebecca PRIOR was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Elizabeth PRYER was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- John SINCLAIR was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Mary Ann STEVENSON was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Elizabeth STRINGER was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- John STRINGER was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Mary Ann STRINGER was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Elizabeth WEBB was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Jane WEBB was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Mary Ann WEBSTER was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Eliza WELLER was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Robert WILLIAMS was admitted to Brixton Grove House on this day in 1849.
- Frederick Francis HAYLES left Brixton Grove House on this day in 1850.
- George Augustus HAYLES left Brixton Grove House on this day in 1850.
- Henry Robert HAYLES left Brixton Grove House on this day in 1850.
- Charles HORTON left Brixton Grove House on this day in 1851.
- John STRINGER 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