Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Shardlow Union, Derbyshire, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Dorothy Ward | 6 | 0 | Sickness and infirmity | no. |
Elizabeth Woodward | 5 | 0 | Incapability for service | no. |
Mary Stevenson | 18 | 0 | ditto | no. |
James Wilmot | 9 | 0 | Paralysis | yes. |
Edward Kilborne | 21 | 0 | Idiotcy | no. |
Mary Mee | 16 | 0 | Incapability for service | no. |
Lucy Pritchett | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Foster | 7 | 0 | ditto | yes. |
Thomas Wheatley | 21 | 0 | Idiotcy | no. |
Martha Castledine | 6 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
Ann Walliss | 22 | 0 | Incapability for service | no. |
Elizabeth Wallis | 22 | 0 | ditto | yes. |
Charles Hutchinson | 16 | 0 | Idiotcy | yes. |
John Biddies | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Martha Gregory | 19 | 0 | Incapability for service | no. |
Edward Winrow | 12 | 0 | Physical disability | no. |
Susan Henfrey | 17 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Mary Ann Kirkman | 8 | 0 | Deaf and dumb | no. |
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