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Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Prestwich 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.

NameYrsms.ReasonSchool
Esther Clarkson100Old age and infirmityunknown.
Hannah Hopwood80Idiocyunknown.
Ann Ogden100Old age and infirmityunknown.
Robert Hyde100Idiocyunknown.
Sarah Ann Berry100dittounknown.
Mary Berry60dittounknown.
John Kirk100dittounknown.
James Kirk100dittounknown.
James Vere80Old age and infirmityunknown.
Job Consterdine80dittounknown.

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