Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Brixworth Union, Northamptonshire, 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 |
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Thomas Foster | 23 | 0 | Idiot, and unable to work | no. |
James Crutchley | 12 | 6 | ditto | no. |
Cornelius Brown | 8 | 6 | ditto | no. |
William Walden | 5 | 6 | Infirmity, and unable to work | no. |
Esther Kinchin | 23 | 0 | Subject to fits, and unable to work. | no. |
Dorcas Mulligan | 8 | 6 | A cripple, and has no friends to look after her. | no. |
Alice Johnson | 7 | 3 | Weak mind. and has an illegitimate child. | no. |
Naomi Cooper | 11 | 6 | Idiot, and unable to take care of herself. | no. |
Martha Bradshaw | 5 | 3 | Weak mind, and unable to work | no. |
Ann Robins | 5 | 2 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Butlin | 12 | 3 | Idiot, and incapable of taking care of herself. | no. |
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