Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Stroud Union, Gloucestershire, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Charlotte Antill | 10 | 8 | Idiotic | no. |
Olive Workman | 20 | 7 | Deaf and dumb | no. |
Maria Workman | 5 | 4 | Insane | no. |
Samuel Walker | 6 | 1 | Infirm | no. |
Hannah Fisher | 13 | 10 | Idiotic | no. |
Mary Lamb | 5 | 1 | Fits | no. |
Thomas Parsons | 9 | 3 | Diseased legs | no. |
Ann Rice | 9 | 3 | Idiotic | no. |
Harriett Bingle | 7 | 2 | Deaf and dumb | no. |
William Wynn | 17 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
John White | 10 | 5 | Crippled in both hands | no. |
George West | 5 | 11 | Infirm | no. |
John Vines | 20 | 10 | ditto | no. |
William Hill | 17 | 3 | Idiotic | no. |
Harriett White | 9 | 4 | ditto | no. |
Ethelinda Cother | 8 | 3 | Insane | no. |
Thomas Poulston | 7 | 4 | Infirm | no. |
Charles Brinkworth | 6 | 0 | Idiotic | yes. |
Ellen Bennett | 5 | 6 | ditto | no. |
John Chandler | 5 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
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