Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Ashton-under-Lyne Union, Lancashire, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ann Butterworth | 12 | 0 | Imbecility | no. |
Mary Heap | 11 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
Ann Higginbottom | 12 | 0 | Imbecility | no. |
Henry North | 8 | 0 | Insanity | no. |
Ann Smith | 11 | 0 | Disabled through rheumatism | no. |
Ann Wright | 12 | 0 | Imbecility | no. |
Ann Winterbottom | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Robert Woodcock | 11 | 6 | Old age and debility | no. |
William Brierley | 8 | 0 | Idiocy | no. |
Eliza Mallinson | 7 | 6 | Epilepsy | yes. |
Mary McDonald | 6 | 6 | Imbecility and blindness | no. |
James Whitworth | 6 | 0 | Old age and defective sight | no. |
William Taylor | 5 | 6 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
Mary Casey | 5 | 5 | Paralysis | no. |
Sarah Brierley | 5 | 4 | Epilepsy | no. |
James Buckley | 5 | 3 | Insanity and blindness | no. |
Thomas Rowland | 11 | 6 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
John Howarth | 5 | 5 | ditto | no. |
Abraham Garside | 12 | 0 | Imbecility | no. |
James Ridgway | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Bridge | 8 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
Martha Charlesworth | 11 | 6 | Crippled and defective sight | yes. |
Ann Haughton | 12 | 0 | Insanity: | no. |
Hannah Clough | 5 | 6 | Epilepsy | no. |
Abel Martin Elliott | 5 | 6 | Idiocy | no. |
Sarah Burgoyne | 5 | 5 | Insanity | no. |
James Nield | 5 | 5 | ditto | no. |
William Robinson | 11 | 0 | Imbecility | no. |
Thomas Steel | 10 | 0 | Crippled | no. |
Ann Stanfield | 7 | 0 | Paralysis | yes. |
Peter Winterbottom | 5 | 6 | Idiocy and crippled | no. |
Sarah Marsland | 5 | 4 | Three illegitimate children | no. |
William Harrison | 11 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
Peter Pearson | 9 | 0 | Paralysis agitana | no. |
Charles Jackson | 9 | 0 | Deaf, dumb and blind | no. |
John Jackson | 9 | 0 | Deaf and dumb, also defective sight | no. |
James Jackson | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Jackson | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Thomas Jackson | 8 | 0 | Imbecility | no. |
Betty Thorpe | 7 | 6 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
Ann Whitworth | 7 | 6 | ditto | no. |
George Goodwin | 6 | 6 | Insanity | no. |
Elizabeth Holt | 8 | 9 | Maimed | no. |
William Henry Briscoe | 8 | 0 | Epilepsy | no. |
William Hindley | 6 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
Alice Gregson | 5 | 6 | Widow, with three children | no. |
Mary Thornley | 5 | 3 | Epilepsy | no. |
Hannah Day | 5 | 3 | ditto | no. |
Eliza Oliver | 9 | 0 | Bedridden and crippled | not known. |
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