Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Ashbourne Union, Derbyshire, 1861
In 1861, the Poor Law Board published a return of the name every adult pauper who had been a workhouse inmate for a continuous period of five years or more, together with the duration of their residence (in years and months), the reason for it, and whether they had been brought up in a District or separate Workhouse School. It was noted that the term 'District School' had been widely misinterpreted by respondents as meaning any school in the local area, such as a national or private school, and that there was only one instance in the whole report of an inmate actually having been in such a school.
Name | Yrs | ms. | Reason | School |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ruth Brooks | 12 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
Annis Cupit | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Hannah Dakin | 11 | 0 | ditto | unknown. |
Mary Goodall | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Harrison | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Higginbotham | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Robert Hunt | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
James Hurd | 13 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
Frances Pearson | 7 | 0 | Infirm | unknown. |
Ann Prestbury | 15 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
Samuel Petts | 6 | 0 | Rheumatism | no. |
Ann Robinson | 15 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
Elizabeth Swindell | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Margaret Sinnot | 5 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
Samuel Smith | 13 | 0 | Blind | no. |
Frances Thacker | 7 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
Edward Thompson | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Walker | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Maria Walton | 7 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
Esther Waring | 15 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
Harriet Waring | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Hannah Yates | 14 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
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