Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Battle Union, Sussex, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
William Summers | 13 | 0 | Infirmity, from age and defective eyesight | no. |
Stephen Glover | 19 | 0 | Infirmity, from age and rupture | no. |
George Atkins | 10 | 0 | Infirmity, from paralysis | no. |
Stephen Fuller | 15 | 0 | Infirmity, from rheumatism | no. |
Benjamin Stevens | 15 | 0 | Infirmity, from broken knee | no. |
Joseph Beevis | 10 | 0 | Infirmity, from rheumatism | no. |
Edward French | 6 | 0 | Infirmity, from diseased back | no. |
John Hanson | 12 | 0 | Infirmity, from injured spine | workh. school. |
George Morphy | 20 | 0 | Infirmity, from rupture | no. |
Sarah Cox | 12 | 0 | Infirmity, from diseased hip, and having a bastard child | no. |
Harriet Hilder | 16 | 0 | Of unsound mind | no. |
Ellen Bartholomew | 18 | 0 | Partially blind | no. |
Ann Prior | 15 | 0 | Of unsound mind | no. |
Mary Lingham | 20 | 0 | Infirmity, from age | workh. school. |
Mary Cruttenden | 13 | 0 | Infirmity, from bad digestion, and having bastard children. | no. |
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