Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Bolton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ralph Horrocks | 20 | 0 | Weak mind and paralysed | no. |
| John Crook | 12 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
| Leah Whittaker | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Preston | 8 | 0 | Asthmatic | no. |
| Thomas Hoyles | 5 | 0 | Old end feeble | no. |
| William Coward | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Edward Monks | 10 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
| Alice Blackburn | 5 | 0 | Wholly paralysed | no. |
| Betty Haslam | 10 | 0 | Weak mind and epileptic | no. |
| John Prescot | 7 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
| James Parkinson | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Doyle | 16 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Charlotte Stott | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Betty Thornley | 7 | 0 | Wholly asthmatic | no. |
| James Garnett | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| George Kitchen | 7 | 0 | Feebleness of body and mind | no. |
| Mary Alartin | 6 | 0 | Old and feeble | no. |
| Matthew Ryder | 5 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
| Eliza Close | 6 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
| Thomas Day | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Alice Baxter | 6 | 0 | Weak mind and epileptic | no. |
| Elizabeth Richardson | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| George Sharpies | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| James Dawson | 5 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
| Sarah Howarth | 6 | 0 | Feeble bodied | no. |
| Jane Simcock | 6 | 0 | Feeble mind and deserted by husband | no. |
| Alice Crook | 9 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
| Ellen Mort | 6 | 0 | Weak mind and epilepsy | no. |
| Ralph Entwisle | 14 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
| Mary Ann Greenhalgh | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Nelson | 11 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
| Catherine Holme | 5 | 0 | Weak mind and epilepsy | no. |
| Ellen Peacock | 7 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
| Elizabeth Green | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Margaret Hodgkinson | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ellen Crook | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Margaret Bullough | 5 | 0 | Weak mind and epilepsy | no. |
| William Gray | 10 | 0 | Old and feeble | no. |
| Ann Pearce | 14 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
| Eunice Mather | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Betty Eckersley | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Crompton | 8 | 0 | Feeble in body and destitute | no. |
| Marina Ashcroft | 16 | 0 | Old and infirm | no. |
| Thomas Allen | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Smith | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
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