Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Barrow-upon-Soar Union, Leicestershire, 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 Branson | 22 | 0 | Atrophy of one side | no. |
Charles Harrison | 7 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
John Leake | 8 | 0 | Infirmity from age | no. |
Joseph Orton | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Alice Taylor | 16 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
James Cooper | 12 | 0 | Infirmity from age | no. |
William Moseley | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Shaw | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Peal | 8 | 0 | Diseased spine | no. |
Henry Everett | 12 | 0 | Infirmity from age | no. |
Thomas Draper | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Read | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
James Woodford | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
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