Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Thanet Union, Kent, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Robert Bird | 7 | 0 | Aged, infirm and destitute | no. |
Catharine Bird | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Isaac Buffee | 25 | 0 | Idiotic, and destitution | no. |
James Cronk | 20 | 0 | Aged, infirm and destitute | no. |
Mary Denne | 15 | 0 | Idiotic and destitute | no. |
Jane Fagg | 7 | 0 | no work, and an illegitimate child to keep | no. |
Mary Farmer | 5 | 0 | Idiotic and destitute | no. |
Emma Gill | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Margaret Hopley | 10 | 0 | Aged and destitute | no. |
Thomas Mutton | 6 | 0 | Aged infirm and destitute | no. |
Thomas Potts | 6 | 0 | Age and destitution | no. |
Sarah Salmon | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Isaac Twyman | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Varnells | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Cooper | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Joseph Hills | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
James Allen | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
James Johncock | 6 | 0 | Paralysed and destitution | no. |
Elizabeth Draby | 5 | 0 | Age and destitution | no. |
Thomas Law | 6 | 0 | Paralysed and destitution | no. |
Catherine Sayer | 11 | 0 | Insane and destitution | no. |
Thomas Bailey | 12 | 0 | Age and destitution | no. |
Ann Brasier | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Davis | 8 | 0 | Idiocy and ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Fulcher | 10 | 0 | Age and destitution | no. |
John Gibson | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Stephen Grant | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Glansford | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
George Groombridge | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Fanny Harman | 20 | 0 | Diseased heart and ditto | no. |
Sarah Mummerly | 8 | 0 | Aged and destitute | no. |
Lydia Overy | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Richard Philpott | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
George Fane | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Martha Randall | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Ann Varion | 14 | 0 | Blind and ditto | no. |
John Friend | 8 | 0 | Age and destitution | no. |
Jane Willmott | 9 | 0 | Idiocy and ditto | no. |
Sarah Masted | 6 | 0 | Age and destitution | no. |
Mary Beer | 15 | 0 | Idiocy and ditto | no. |
William Pay | 14 | 0 | Age and destitution | no. |
Isabella Johnson | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Atwell | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Thomas Churchman | 8 | 0 | ditto and blind | no. |
Henry Hatcher | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Jarvis | 21 | 0 | No employ | no. |
Eliza Miller | 6 | 0 | Blind and destitute | no. |
Frances Preston | 17 | 0 | Paralysed and ditto | no. |
Austin Roberts | 9 | 0 | Age and destitution | no. |
Mary Baxter | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Lawrence | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Clara Nash | 6 | 6 | Two illegitimate children | no. |
Henry Russell | 25 | 0 | Idiocy and destitution | no. |
William Spain | 21 | 0 | Infirmity and ditto | no. |
Jane Wootton | 24 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Augustus Johncock | 9 | 0 | Age and destitution | no. |
Thomas Kemp | 25 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Allen | 15 | 0 | ditto and idiocy | no. |
William Revell | 20 | 0 | Idiotcy and destitution | no. |
Charlotte Stevens | 25 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Robert Gore | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Binfield | 17 | 0 | Age and destitution | no. |
John Nutting | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Abigail Naylor | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Thomas Page | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
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