Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Basford Union, Nottinghamshire, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Richard Kent | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
John Webster | 10 | 0 | Partially insane | no. |
Joseph Slack | 5 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Thomas Ratcliff | 5 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
Joseph Dennis | 12 | 0 | Insanity | no. |
John Severns | 36 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
William Granger | 6 | 0 | Blind | no. |
Uriah Shaw | 22 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Samuel Crooks | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Rigley | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
James Walker | 28 | 0 | Defective vision | no. |
William Burrows | 10 | 0 | Old age | no. |
James Brantley | 14 | 0 | Decrepitude | no. |
Matthew Bricknock | 6 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
George Wiltshire | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
George Barker | 6 | 0 | Fits | no. |
Mary Farnsworth | 30 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Mary Gibbs | 38 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Harriet Forbs | 30 | 0 | Decrepitude | no. |
Ann Shelton | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Elizabeth Walker | 6 | 0 | Blind | no. |
Elizabeth James | 8 | 0 | Bastard children | no. |
Elizabeth Flowers | 16 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Maria Bend | 18 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Harriet Monks | 9 | 0 | Blind | yes. |
Ann Hinde | 14 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Phoebe Cooper | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Shipman | 12 | 0 | Deaf and dumb | no. |
Mary Fretwell | 25 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Mary Smith | 30 | 0 | Insanity | no. |
Mary Weatherhall | 8 | 0 | Decrepitude | no. |
Elizabeth Barns | 10 | 0 | Bastard children | no. |
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