Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Stourbridge Union, Worcestershire, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Abraham Wood | 14 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Thomas Sideway | 12 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
Francis Keeling | 12 | 0 | Illness, and bad sight | no. |
James Cumming | 6 | 0 | Infirmity and old age | no. |
John Welsh | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Edwin Richards | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Bennett | 17 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Thomas Boxley | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Edward Newton | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Wall | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Peter Pardoe | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Wooldridge | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Joseph Thorns | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Henry Bache | 6 | 0 | Fits | no. |
John Lawley | 6 | 0 | Lameness | no. |
William Perry | 16 | 0 | Infirmity and bad sight | no. |
Joseph Gadd | 11 | 0 | Old age | no. |
John Gardener | 12 | 0 | Infirmity and old age | no. |
Benjamin Perry | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
George Woodhouse | 5 | 0 | Lameness | no. |
Joseph Harris | 5 | 0 | Dropsy | no. |
John Willetts | 8 | 0 | Lameness | no. |
Joseph Tibbetts | 7 | 0 | Bad eyes and weakness | no. |
Thomas Drew | 5 | 0 | Bad eyes | no. |
Richard Howes | 12 | 0 | Disease of heart | no. |
John Heathcote | 12 | 0 | Infirmity and old age | no. |
William Tew | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Cooke | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Hazelwood | 15 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Joseph Southall | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Woodhouse | 5 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Hannah Field | 8 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Elizabeth Dancer | 6 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
Catherine Pew | 8 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Elizabeth Homer | 10 | 0 | Imbecility | no. |
Mary Kilcoyne | 5 | 0 | Unable to support three children | no. |
Ann Skielding | 15 | 0 | Disease of brain | no. |
Sarah Thatcher | 8 | 0 | Weakness of mind | no. |
Ann Homer | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Timmings | 10 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Phoebe Drew | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Maria Walker | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sabra Griffin | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Ann Freeman | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Jones | 11 | 0 | Infirmity and age | no. |
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