Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Nantwich Union, Cheshire, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Joseph Coxey | 6 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
Mary Cornes | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
James Stockton | 16 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Alary Farrington | 19 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
Dorothy Parkes | 12 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
Mary Dutton | 19 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
Robert Topham | 10 | 0 | Blind | no. |
John Fletcher | 8 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
Frances Holyoak | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Samuel Hewitt | 6 | 0 | Asthma | no. |
Eliza Young | 6 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
Joshua Vickers | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
James Towers | 12 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
Mary Peake | 7 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
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