Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Crediton 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Jane Mugford | 20 | 0 | Infirmity, subject to fits, &c | no. |
Elizabeth Henrie | 9 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
Ann Harding | 17 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Andrew Cann | 13 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
Elizabeth Bicknell | 5 | 0 | Aged | no. |
Samuel Currall | 19 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
Mary Osmond | 19 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Jane Tucker | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
James Daw | 5 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
William Bolt | 6 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
Joseph Bowdon | 14 | 0 | Paralysed | no. |
Grace Bowdon | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
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