Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Risbridge Union, Suffolk, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mary Byford | 22 | 0 | No home | dist. school |
John Bruty | 7 | 0 | Idiot | unknown. |
Harriet Woods | 5 | 6 | Illness | dist. school |
Adam Fitch | 8 | 0 | Infirmity | dist. school |
George Buckler | 7 | 0 | ditto | dist. school |
John Scott | 6 | 0 | ditto | dist. school |
Martha Day | 6 | 0 | Illness | dist. school |
Lucy Bartrup | 23 | 0 | Idiot | dist. school |
Joseph Hardgrove | 5 | 0 | Unable to work | dist. school |
Susan Barker | 7 | 0 | No home | dist. school |
Mary Simpson | 9 | 0 | ditto | dist. school |
Susan Webb | 7 | 0 | Idiot | unknown. |
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