Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Huddersfield Union, West Riding of Yorkshire, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Jonas Bower | 6 | 6 | Infirm | no. |
Henry Hinchliffe | 5 | 6 | Insane | no. |
Jonas Hinchliffe | 7 | 0 | Blind | no. |
Mary Garside | 5 | 6 | Infirm | no. |
James Armitage | 7 | 0 | Blind | no. |
Grace Crossley | 18 | 6 | Insane | no. |
Daniel Rogerson | 7 | 6 | ditto | no. |
Phillis Sykes | 5 | 6 | ditto | no. |
Mary Thorp | 19 | 0 | Dumb | no. |
Ann Crowther | 7 | 0 | Insane | no. |
Alfred Ramsden | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Hellawell | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Susan England | 17 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Fox | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Spivey | 6 | 6 | Infirm | no. |
Crist Ibberson | 6 | 6 | Fits | no. |
Elizabeth Poppleton | 16 | 0 | Dumb | no. |
George Smith | 9 | 0 | Insane | no. |
Henry Littlewood | 9 | 6 | ditto | no. |
John Holmes | 8 | 6 | Defective intellect | no. |
Martha Moorhouse | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Swift | 6 | 6 | Insane | no. |
John Moorhouse | 9 | 0 | Subject to fits | no. |
Amos Boothroyd | 8 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
William Garside | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Coldwell | 6 | 0 | Insane | no. |
John Battye | 7 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Hannah Hinchliffe | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
George Heaton | 6 | 6 | Defective intellect | no. |
Alfred Penn | 7 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Jane Haigh | 6 | 6 | ditto | no. |
William Lambert | 10 | 0 | Blind | no. |
Mary Hirst | 5 | 6 | Insane | no. |
Ruth Jepson | 6 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Mary Haigh | 8 | 6 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Moorhouse | 20 | 0 | Dumb | no. |
John Ratcliff | 20 | 0 | Ditto | no. |
Walter Liversidge | 12 | 0 | Fits | no. |
Mury Webster | 22 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Hannah Haigh | 22 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Sarah Littlewood | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Bell | 6 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Charles Hirst | 16 | 0 | Decrepitude | no. |
Hannah Swinden | 16 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Joseph Mettrick | 8 | 0 | Lame | no. |
Harriet Hinchliffe | 7 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Mary Eastwood | 5 | 0 | Oldage | no. |
Joshua Garside | 19 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary France | 14 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
Betty Hoyle | 25 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
John Haigh | 22 | 0 | Weak eyesight | no. |
Thomas Gledhill | 8 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Joseph Whitnam | 6 | 0 | Weak eyesight | no. |
John Hirst | 6 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Benjamin Bates | 18 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Emma Beevers | 11 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
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