Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Peterborough Union, Northamptonshire, 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 Huckees | 16 | 0 | Rheumatics, contracted limbs | no. |
Mark Simpson | 9 | 6 | Deformed hands | no. |
John Richardson | 10 | 0 | Asthma | no. |
Robert Jones | 5 | 0 | Asthma, and short sighted | no. |
Thomas Cocking | 6 | 0 | Deformed hands | no. |
John Hales | 6 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
John Bryant | 13 | 0 | ditto | no. |
James Bowker | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Wilmott | 6 | 0 | Fits | no. |
Emma Woodrow | 6 | 6 | Weak mind | no. |
Elizabeth Layton | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Jane Bigley | 13 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Catharine Smith | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Letitia Bingham | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Ann Northfield | 5 | 0 | Four illegitimate children | no. |
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