Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Dursley Union, Gloucestershire, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mary Hart | 20 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
Joseph Woodward | 19 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Martha Smith | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Hewlings | 21 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
Lucy Webb | 17 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
John Higgins | 11 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
Elizabeth Hurn | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Fisher | 17 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
Maria Austin | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Charles French | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
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