Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Hexham Union, Northumberland, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Thomas Lee | 22 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Matthew Lee | 23 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Robert Leadbitter | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
George Pattinson | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Phoebe Richardson | 21 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Dufton | 22 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Cecilia Lyons | 23 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ralph Smith | 18 | 0 | Not able bodied, and subject to fits. | no. |
William Robson | 10 | 0 | Not able bodied, and paralytic | no. |
William Parker | 10 | 0 | Not able-bodied; a cripple; has no use of his legs. | no. |
William Woodmass | 10 | 0 | Notable-bodied, and scrofulous | no. |
Joseph Craig | 5 | 0 | Not able-bodied; from old age, and lameness. | no. |
Mary Carrick | 11 | 0 | Widow, destitute, with two children, one of whom a bastard. | no. |
Mary Ann Rutherford | 7 | 0 | Not able-bodied, and an idiot. | no. |
Margaret Brown | 5 | 0 | Widow, destitute, with three children. | no. |
Jane Ward | 5 | 0 | Widow, destitute, with two children and one bastard. | no. |
Sarah Wright | 18 | 0 | Widow, not able bodied, and faculties impaired. | no. |
Margaret Stobart | 16 | 0 | Not able bodied, and subject to fits. | no. |
Margaret Hemsley | 16 | 0 | Not able-bodied, and paralytic | no. |
Frances Atkinson | 17 | 0 | Notable-bodied; not able to work | workh. school. |
Kerin Oldham | 17 | 0 | Not able-bodied, with a bastard child. | no. |
Elizabeth Carrick | 11 | 0 | Not able-bodied, scrofulous, and has only one arm. | workh. school. |
Grace Newton | 14 | 0 | Not able-bodied, infirm, and old age. | no. |
Margaret Armstrong | 14 | 0 | Not able-bodied, and paralytic | no. |
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