Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Carlisle Union, Cumberland, 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 Rome | 19 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Mary Ann Holliday | 6 | 0 | Lunatic | no. |
Mary Blythe | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Sewell | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Barclay | 8 | 0 | Takes fits | no. |
Mary Haddon | 6 | 0 | Scrofula | no. |
Ellen Sowerby | 10 | 0 | Sickness | dist. school. |
Margaret Morley | 10 | 0 | Infirmity | dist. school. |
Jane Irving | 11 | 0 | Imbecile | not known. |
John Boyle | 10 | 0 | Idiot | not known. |
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