Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Walsingham Union, Norfolk, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Elizabeth Lee | 5 | 0 | Illegitimate children | no. |
Maria Lee | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Massingham | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Ann Edge | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Rebecca Spence | 8 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Mary Ann Oliver | 16 | 0 | ditto | no. |
George Newton | 15 | 0 | Ulceration, leg | no. |
Samuel Skippon | 8 | 0 | Old age | no. |
William Skerry | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Peter Southcote | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Impson | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
James Wright | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Skippon | 8 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
Robert Jarvis | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Drury | 6 | 0 | Rheumatism | no. |
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