Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Cuckfield Union, Sussex, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Elizabeth Isted | 9 | 0 | Disease of the heart and old age | no. |
Robert Bolting | 16 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
John Bolting | 16 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Bolting | 16 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Benjamin Jeffery | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Thomas Mitchell | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Frances Reeves | 10 | 0 | Insane and blind | no. |
James Smith | 12 | 0 | Old age | no. |
George Streater | 11 | 0 | Weak eyesight and dropsy | no. |
John Brown | 13 | 0 | Old age | no. |
John Roser | 12 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Sophia Howden | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
James Wadey | 11 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
Ann Hobden | 14 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
John Anthony | 7 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
Robert Spurlock | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
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