Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Oldham Union, Lancashire, 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 Smethurst | 12 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Ann Winterbottom | 7 | 0 | Intemperance | no. |
Jeremiah Dalton | 13 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Hannah Dronsfield | 12 | 0 | Fits | no. |
Betty Marsden | 12 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
John Platt | 12 | 0 | Blind | no. |
Sarah Dunkerly | 11 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
Samuel Fletcher | 10 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Sarah Jane Jackson | 10 | 0 | ditto | workh. school. |
James Jackson | 12 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
James Bardsiey | 12 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Elizabeth Jackson | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Joseph Stott | 10 | 0 | Old age | no. |
William Stott | 12 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Joseph Newton | 9 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Mary Ann Jackson | 10 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Alice Broster | 12 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Betty Whally | 7 | 0 | Intemperance | no. |
Jane Jackson | 9 | 9 | Paralysis | no. |
John Trippier | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
John Booth | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Jane Thomason | 7 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Hannah Hall | 6 | 0 | Blind | no. |
William Jones | 7 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Samuel Wright | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Cooker | 7 | 0 | Intemperance | no. |
Lucy Brooks | 12 | 0 | Fits | no. |
Jane Riley | 11 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Hannah Sutcliffe | 6 | 0 | Fits | no. |
Miriam Hall | 5 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Mary Denton | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Booth | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Amelia Hoyles | 10 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
Sarah Nield | 10 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Betty Kirkham | 6 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
John Malalieu | 10 | 0 | Old age | no. |
William Wright | 9 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Mary Mills | 10 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
John Buckley | 10 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Thomas Howarth | 10 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Charles Malalieu | 10 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Betty Cook | 7 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Richard Dyson | 10 | 0 | Lame | no. |
Prudence Parkinson | 12 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Mary Fox | 10 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
Hannah Stott | 10 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Thomas Lees | 10 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Alice Cooper | 10 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
Mary Ann Collings | 10 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
John Ogden | 5 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
Hannah Mills | 10 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
William Platt | 10 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Richard Prestwich | 10 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Sophia Carlisle | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
John Stott | 10 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
John Whitehead | 12 | 0 | Fits | no. |
Bridget Christie | 5 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Mary Brophy | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Olivia Hartley | 5 | 0 | ditto | workh. school. |
Thomas Williams | 10 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Thomas Schofield | 10 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Joseph Shawcross | 6 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
Jonathan Ogden | 7 | 0 | Blind | no. |
William Platt | 6 | 0 | Deaf | no. |
James Ogden | 11 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Joseph Taylor | 10 | 0 | Blind | no. |
Benjamin Howarth | 8 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Thomas Buckley | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Collinge | 9 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
John Wrigley | 6 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
James Fitton | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mark Greaves | 6 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
John Harrop | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
James Mellor | 6 | 0 | Deaf | no. |
John Greenwood | 5 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
John Ogden | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
John Wild | 5 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
Samuel Haughton | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Joseph Glassop | 5 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Ann Wrigley | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Betty Jackson | 6 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
Hannah Lemon | 19 | 0 | Blind | no. |
Hannah Barker | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
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