Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Derby Union, Derbyshire, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Thomas Cotton | 11 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
William Lakin | 23 | 0 | Weak-minded | district. |
William Clark | 6 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
William Swindell | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Nathaniel Hawley | 10 | 0 | Weak-minded | no. |
George Ashby | 5 | 0 | Sickness | district. |
Edward Budworth | 9 | 0 | Lameness | no. |
John Burrows | 7 | 0 | Sickness | no. |
John Gilbert | 5 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
William Ratcliffe | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Charles Sidley | 15 | 0 | Out of employ | workhouse. |
Jane Allsop | 22 | 0 | Weak-minded | no. |
Hannah Hand | 20 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Ann Twigg | 23 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Emma Brownsword | 10 | 0 | Weak-minded | no. |
Ann Parker | 6 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Sarah Allsebrook | 6 | 0 | Weak-minded | no. |
Ann Smith | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Smith | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Topham | 9 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Ann Jerram | 10 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
Mary Hadfield | 21 | 0 | Sickness | district. |
Mary Smedley | 7 | 0 | ditto | district. |
Sarah Allen | 6 | 0 | ditto | district. |
Lydia Hill | 6 | 0 | ditto | district. |
Sarah Stringer | 10 | 0 | Age and infirmity | district. |
Mary Davis | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Cutts | 7 | 0 | Weak-minded | no. |
Mary George | 10 | 0 | Age and infirmity | district. |
Mary Sowter | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
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