Long-term Workhouse Inmates in King's Lynn Union, Norfolk, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
John Dolby | 9 | 0 | Rheumatism | no. |
Frank Crisp | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Gricks | 6 | 0 | Lameness | no. |
James Johnson | 7 | 0 | Lameness | no. |
William Brereton | 10 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Dinah Jickling | 16 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Thomas Bacon | 24 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Maria Coxall | 13 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Thomas Lines | 15 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Sarah Pointer | 6 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Mary Balls | 27 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Rachael Dixon | 60 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Mary Woodrow | 7 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Hannah Jickling | 16 | 0 | Old age | no. |
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