Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Crickhowell Union, Breconshire, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
William Powell | 30 | 0 | Not able-bodied | no. |
William Salisbury | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Henry Jones | 11 | 0 | Old age | no. |
William Williams | 10 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
John Evans | 10 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Thomas Jenkins | 6 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
John Jones | 8 | 0 | Old age | no. |
William Price | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Williams | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elias Powell | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Charlotte Parry | 18 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
Dinah Lewis | 14 | 0 | Nearly blind | no. |
Mary Watkins | 14 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
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