Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Alverstoke Parish, Hampshire, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Caroline Griffin | 9 | 0 | Imbecile | |
Jane Yarwood | 5 | 0 | Old age | |
Edward Booker | 10 | 0 | Fits | |
Charles Churcher | 7 | 0 | Rheumatics | |
William Watson | 6 | 0 | Fits | |
Charlotte Oram | 9 | 0 | Imbecile | |
Elizabeth Simms | 7 | 0 | Blind | |
Stephen Smith | 6 | 0 | Old age | |
Jane Davis | 6 | 0 | ditto | |
Harriet Carter | 7 | 0 | ditto | |
Nicholas Adams | 8 | 0 | Blind | |
Sarah Adams | 8 | 0 | Wife of above | |
John Mortimore | 5 | 0 | Old age and illness | |
John Maurice Spleen | 8 | 0 | ditto | |
Ann Forward | 12 | 0 | ditto | |
Fanny Wilkinson | 10 | 0 | ditto | |
Edward Ware | 12 | 0 | Lame | |
William Washington | 16 | 0 | Sight partially gone | |
Caroline Whitcomb | 20 | 0 | Insane | |
Edward Trimmings | 9 | 0 | Old age | |
Sarah Smith | 14 | 0 | ditto | |
Susannah Roberts | 6 | 0 | Old age and illness | |
Charles Roe | 11 | 0 | Old age | |
Thomas Roper | 16 | 0 | Imbecile | |
Maria Rood | 24 | 0 | ditto | |
Benjamin Pink | 20 | 0 | Old age | |
Alexander Pickering | 20 | 0 | Lame | |
Thomas Phillips | 25 | 0 | ditto | |
Elizabeth Orr | 12 | 0 | ditto | |
Mary Mason | 9 | 0 | Insane | |
Mary Lander | 20 | 0 | Old age | |
Edward Futcher | 17 | 0 | Imbecile | |
Harriet Futcher | 15 | 0 | ditto | |
Rosetta Diaper | 10 | 0 | ditto | |
Elizabeth Brantdz | 15 | 0 | Affliction | |
Daniel Brown | 12 | 0 | Fits | |
Harriet Blake | 15 | 0 | Imbecile | |
Maria Atkinson | 21 | 0 | Old age and illness | |
Mary Ann Rose | 6 | 0 | ditto | |
Mary Hill | 10 | 0 | Imbecile | |
Ann Williams | 28 | 0 | Insane | |
Sarah Henley | 60 | 0 | Imbecile | |
William Holly | 14 | 0 | Old age | |
Elizabeth Bulger | 18 | 0 | ditto | |
John Young | 6 | 0 | Imbecile |
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