Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Falmouth Union, Cornwall, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Joseph Morrish | 7 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
James Thomas | 7 | 0 | Blindness and infirmity | no. |
William Bennett | 7 | 0 | Infirmity and illness | no. |
Robert Hain | 8 | 0 | Fits | workh. school. |
William Simmons | 12 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Elizabeth Marks | 7 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Jane Hill | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Currant | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Cullycott | 5 | 0 | Illness | no. |
Ann Gibbons | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Jenkings | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Earle | 20 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
Harriet Slade | 8 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Penelope Grangey | 20 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
William James | 7 | 0 | Illness | no. |
Bella James | 7 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
William Padden | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Richard Jewell | 17 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Francis Bolitho | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Payne | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
James Thomas | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Jane Jackson | 16 | 0 | ditto | no. |
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