Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Barton-upon-Irwell 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Henry Sharlock | 6 | 6 | Debility | no. |
Henry Turner | 8 | 0 | Idiot | workh. school. |
Samuel Lawton | 10 | 0 | Weak minded | no. |
John Higginbottom | 5 | 6 | Infirm | no. |
Margaret Taylor | 5 | 6 | Idiot | no. |
Ellen Ashcroft | 5 | 0 | ditto, | no. |
Alice Renshaw | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
David Lloyd | 6 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Jane Cordwell | 7 | 0 | no. | |
Charles Hardman | 5 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Sarah Gratrix | 7 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Betsy Hulme | 8 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
Margaret Donnelly | 8 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Thomas Crompton | 8 | 0 | no. | |
Martha Cookson | 8 | 0 | Widow | no. |
Elizabeth Beswick | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Isaac Pollitt | 9 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Adam Stabley | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Armstrong | 10 | 0 | Blind | no. |
Alice Hickson | 9 | 0 | no. | |
Mary Withington | 9 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Elizabeth Johnson | 9 | 0 | no. | |
Richard Pollitt | 5 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Richard Muggs | 8 | 0 | Blind | no. |
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