Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Newcastle-under-Lyme Union, Staffordshire, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
James Johnson | 17 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
William Watson | 10 | 0 | Ruptured | no. |
Joseph Wakelin | 17 | 0 | Fits | no. |
John Rowe | 5 | 0 | Aged and infirm | no. |
Elizabeth Ashley | 22 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
Hannah Ashley | 22 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Pepper | 20 | 0 | Infirm from age | no. |
Sarah Meadon | 8 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
Sarah Dobson | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Harding | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Key | 6 | 0 | Asthma | no. |
Sarah Cooper | 5 | 0 | Aged and infirm | no. |
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