Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Wigton Union, Cumberland, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Margaret Hodgson Beaty | 7 | 0 | Idiotcy | not known. |
John Hesket | 10 | 0 | Infirmity | not known. |
Margaret Craghill | 6 | 0 | Idiotcy | not known. |
George Gillespie | 10 | 0 | ditto | not known. |
Hannah Harkness | 5 | 0 | ditto | not known. |
Jane Craghill | 6 | 0 | ditto | not known. |
Eleanor Lesly | 8 | 0 | Infirmity | not known. |
Isabella Bell | 7 | 0 | Idiotcy | not known. |
Joseph Messenger | 8 | 0 | Infirmity | not known. |
Joseph Lowes | 10 | 0 | ditto | not known. |
Jane Saul | 5 | 0 | Blindness | not known. |
Robert Stobbart | 10 | 0 | Idiotcy | not known. |
Michael Tiffen | 12 | 0 | Infirmity | not known. |
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