Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Wigan 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.
Name | Yrs | ms. | Reason | School |
---|---|---|---|---|
Thomas Hill | 10 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
William Winstanley | 9 | 0 | Not able to work | no. |
Robert Gore | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Robert Bowker | 5 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
William Hall | 8 | 0 | Not able to work | no. |
Henry Makinson | 12 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
George Rollinson | 12 | 0 | Not able to work | no. |
Henry Ashurst | 12 | 0 | Old age | no. |
John Brown | 9 | 0 | Lame | no. |
William Webster | 7 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
James Pennington | 9 | 0 | Blind | no. |
William Wigan | 19 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
John Baron | 10 | 0 | Blind | no. |
Thomas Melling | 8 | 0 | Not able to work | no. |
James Ashurst | 16 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Arthur Christy | 19 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Charles Appleton | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elijah Whalley | 9 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
James Jones | 7 | 0 | Not able to work | no. |
James Ashton | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Dean | 8 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
James Green | 7 | 0 | Not able to work | no. |
Ralph Wilcock | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Houghton | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Thomas Molyneux | 9 | 0 | Blind | no. |
John Fisher | 10 | 0 | Not able to work | no. |
James King | 8 | 0 | Blind | no. |
James Gaskell | 7 | 0 | Not able to work | no. |
John Jolley | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Thomas Birtwistle | 13 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Matthew Murtaugh | 6 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
Gerard Delamer | 7 | 0 | Not able to work | no. |
Thomas Grahame | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Robert Gray | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Peter Markey | 5 | 0 | Not able to work | no. |
George Nolan | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Thomas Grime | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William McDonald | 9 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
Isaac McDonald | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Agnes Simm | 32 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Margaret Lowe | 7 | 0 | Not able to work | no. |
Ellen Melling | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Margaret Speakman | 6 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Alice Chadwick | 10 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Jane Fairhurst | 7 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Mary Fairhurst | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Sherratt | 8 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Tamar Cheetham | 6 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Ann Worthington | 5 | 0 | Not able to work | no. |
Mary Tyrer | 12 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Ann Banks | 11 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Ellen Highton | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Appleton | 13 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Jane Bispham | 15 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Sarah Bigham | 6 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Jane Webster | 12 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Elizabeth Glover | 14 | 0 | Not able to work | no. |
Mary Horrocks | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Nuttall | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Margaret Fairhurst | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Margaret Walker | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary McSorley | 9 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Jane McCabe | 6 | 0 | Not able to work | no. |
Catherine Stafford | 6 | 0 | Lame | no. |
Ellen Dewhurst | 6 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Sarah Green | 6 | 0 | Blind | no. |
Elizabeth Bolton | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Alice Westby | 6 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Ellen Crook | 12 | 0 | Blind | no. |
Ann Hitchen | 13 | 0 | Lame | no. |
Mary Hill | 9 | 0 | Not able to work | no. |
Rosa Hill | 9 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Jane Hart | 7 | 0 | Not able to work | no. |
Margaret Roughley | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Calland | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Baxter | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Salvina McEwe | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Rigby | 12 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Jane Fisher | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Grace McManus | 7 | 0 | Lame | no. |
Catherine Pennington | 12 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Rosa Brown | 7 | 0 | Lame | no. |
Elizabeth Atherton | 7 | 0 | Not able to work | no. |
Rachel Dixon | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Margaret Shevidan | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Martha Croston | 30 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
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