Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Stoke-upon-Trent Parish, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
John Ash | 5 | 0 | Old age | |
Martha Ball | 20 | 0 | No employment | workh. school. |
Elizabeth Ball | 18 | 0 | ditto | workh. school. |
Mary Bates | 8 | 0 | Idiotic | |
John Berresford | 12 | 0 | ditto | |
John Beech | 7 | 0 | No employment | |
Samuel Blood | 6 | 0 | Old age | |
Elijah Burton | 5 | 0 | Unable to work | |
Elijah Colclough | 10 | 0 | A cripple | workh. school. |
Martha Crutchley | 19 | 0 | Idiotic | workh. school. |
William Cartledge | 7 | 0 | Old age | |
John Cooper | 5 | 0 | ditto | |
Martha Cartwright | 10 | 0 | No employment | workh. school. |
John Faulkner | 10 | 0 | Old age | |
George Heath | 10 | 0 | ditto | |
William Hargreaves | 18 | 0 | ditto | |
Harriett Hammersley | 22 | 0 | Idiotic | workh. school. |
Hannah Hulme | 7 | 0 | No employment | |
Joseph Harrison | 6 | 0 | Unable to work | |
Ann Jones | 12 | 0 | Idiotic | |
Sarah Jones | 5 | 0 | No employment | |
James Mayer | 18 | 0 | A cripple | |
William Nicholls | 7 | 0 | Old age | |
John Pope | 10 | 0 | ditto | |
Thomas Plant | 16 | 0 | ditto | |
Sarah Ellen Roberts | 8 | 0 | Blind | |
Ellis Rowarth | 12 | 0 | ditto | |
William Roberts | 10 | 0 | No employment | workh. school. |
Martha Rowley | 14 | 0 | Idiotic | |
Charles Robinson | 7 | 0 | Old age | |
Emma Ridgway | 6 | 0 | No employment | |
Caroline Shaw | 12 | 0 | ditto | |
Emma Swettenham | 9 | 0 | ditto | workh. school. |
Absalom Shaw | 28 | 0 | A cripple | |
Ann Scarratt | 22 | 0 | Idiotic | |
Ellen Smith | 12 | 0 | ditto | |
Elizabeth Stoddard | 11 | 0 | Old age | |
John Stanley | 8 | 0 | ditto | |
William Sutton | 6 | 0 | ditto | |
John Thompson | 16 | 0 | ditto | |
Ellen Teggin | 7 | 0 | A cripple | |
Ellen Watmouth | 7 | 0 | Idiotic | |
Joseph Wright | 10 | 0 | Old age | |
Enoch Webberley | 8 | 0 | A cripple |
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