Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Oswestry Union, Shropshire, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
John Jones | 10 | 0 | Chronic rheumatism | no. |
William Jones | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
John Davies | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Watkin Rogers | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Richard Bate | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Williams | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Jane Davenport | 7 | 0 | Chronic mania | no. |
William Morris | 6 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
Margaret Edwards | 20 | 0 | Weak eyes | workh. school. |
Margaret Edwards | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
William Chattoway | 5 | 6 | Chronic rheumatism | no. |
Thomas Jones | 10 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
Thomas Hackett | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Ellen Jones | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ellen Morris | 20 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
Ann Rogers | 18 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Myatt | 11 | 0 | ditto | workh. school. |
Sarah Stokes | 60 | 0 | ditto | workh. school. |
Louisa Cash | 15 | 0 | ditto | workh. school. |
William Edwards | 10 | 0 | Asthma | workh. school. |
Sarah Price | 34 | 0 | Weak mind | workh. school. |
Richard Humphreys | 5 | 0 | Chronic mania | no. |
Thomas Edwards | 6 | 0 | Disabled from accident | no. |
Edward Dovaston | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Jane Jones | 5 | 6 | ditto | no. |
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