Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Barnstaple Union, Devon, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Susan Tucker | 23 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
Elizabeth Elliott | 23 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Richard Coucher | 10 | 0 | Blind | no. |
Philip Jones | 6 | 0 | Crippled | no. |
Betsy Saunders | 10 | 0 | Fits | no. |
John Harding | 6 | 6 | Age and infirmity | no. |
Elizabeth Rudd | 10 | 0 | Has several bastard children | no. |
Elizabeth Slocombe | 14 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
Ann Griffiths | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Agnes Triggs | 6 | 0 | Crippled | no. |
John P Harris | 10 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
Sarah Bramble | 14 | 0 | General debility | no. |
Mary Grigg | 18 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
Jane Dendle | 6 | 6 | ditto | no. |
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