Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Mutford and Lothingland Union, Suffolk, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
James Bloomfield | 17 | 0 | Partially blind | no. |
Abraham Poll | 23 | 0 | Club foot | no. |
Amos Freeman | 26 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
Samuel Barber | 25 | 0 | Lameness | no. |
John Tripp | 9 | 0 | Disability | no. |
William Smith | 17 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
Ann Cooper | 28 | 0 | Idiotic | workh. school. |
Mary Woodard | 21 | 0 | ditto | workh. school. |
Ellen Woods | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Susan Newrick | 7 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
Sarah Danford | 40 | 0 | Idiotic | workh. school. |
Mary Pipes | 9 | 0 | Disability of husband | no. |
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