Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Loddon and Clavering 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Daniel Clarke | 9 | 10 | Disabled, from paralysis | no. |
John Fowler | 17 | 0 | Lame ankles from fracture | no. |
Charles Goodwin | 6 | 6 | Debility from old age | no. |
Charles Blake | 16 | 0 | Lame and partially blind | no. |
Ann Elgood | 5 | 3 | An idiot (harmless) | no. |
Mary Ann Farrell | 8 | 3 | ditto | no. |
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