Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Wycombe Union, Buckinghamshire, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Dinah Prior | 5 | 0 | Has two illegitimate children, and is lame. | no. |
Susan Bunker | 17 | 0 | Imbecility | no. |
Elizabeth Rutland | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Hannah Baddams | 5 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
Louisa Lofton | 7 | 0 | General debility | no. |
Caroline Newton | 7 | 0 | Has two illegitimate children | no. |
Ann Collins | 7 | 0 | General debility | no. |
William Lancaster | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Joseph Wingrove | 16 | 0 | Bad eyes | no. |
William May | 12 | 0 | General debility from intoxication. | no. |
William Atkins | 9 | 0 | General debility | no. |
William Perrin | 12 | 0 | General debility; upwards of 90 years of age. | no. |
James Berry | 6 | 0 | Epileptic fits | no. |
John Parks | 16 | 0 | General debility | no. |
William Robinson | 6 | 0 | Epileptic fits | no. |
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