Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Eton Union, Buckinghamshire, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mary Maddocks | 9 | 0 | Ulcerated legs | no. |
Sarah Turnock | 6 | 0 | General debility | no. |
Jane Hatt | 13 | 0 | Blind | no. |
Charlotte Hunt | 23 | 0 | Paralysed | no. |
Mary Ann Cade | 17 | 0 | Dropsical | no. |
Ann Nicholls | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Sarah Atkins | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Charlotte Gardiner | 23 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
Mary Goodchild | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Ann Mattingley | 8 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Ann Stevens | 10 | 0 | Crippled feet and legs | no. |
James Larkin | 15 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
Joseph Moulder | 13 | 0 | Old age | no. |
John Hawes | 19 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Thomas Lovett | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Coleman | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Bailey | 5 | 0 | Bad feet | no. |
Thomas Stuart | 11 | 0 | Paralysed | no. |
Isaac Nicholls | 6 | 0 | Swelled legs | no. |
Thomas Bullock | 7 | 0 | Compound rupture | no. |
Edward King | 5 | 0 | Ulcerated legs | no. |
Daniel Lovett | 13 | 0 | Fits | no. |
William Barnett | 13 | 0 | Ulcerated legs | no. |
Robert Adams | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Joseph Peverill | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Bateman | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Matthew Bamford | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
James Smith | 23 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Gilbert Healy | 8 | 0 | Blind | no. |
Henry Barnes | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Thomas Hinton | 6 | 0 | Lumbago | no. |
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