Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Ongar Union, Essex, 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 Staines | 28 | 0 | Idiot. | no. |
Thomas Phillips | 6 | 0 | Illness. | no. |
James Hawkins | 23 | 0 | Idiot. | no. |
Elizabeth Hasler | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Esther Tucker | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Savage | 24 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Elizabeth Pomfret | 16 | 0 | Idiot. | no. |
John Miles | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
William Mays | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Samuel Rainbird | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Tarling | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Albertina Salmons | 22 | 0 | Blind | no. |
Richard Frisby | 7 | 0 | Illness. | no. |
Martha Weal | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
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