Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Newmarket Union, Cambridgeshire, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Layton Raymond | 20 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Catherine Mason | 15 | 0 | Infirmity (deaf and dumb) | no. |
| Sarah Levett | 20 | 0 | Weak intellect | workh. school. |
| Joseph Barrow | 6 | 0 | Infirmity (blindness) | no. |
| John Drayton | 16 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| John Rowling | 14 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Thomas Rawlinson | 8 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| John Goodson | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Chapman | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Samuel Draper | 18 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Brown | 10 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Elizabeth Barrow | 8 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| John Harlock | 13 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Richard Freestone | 9 | 0 | Idiotcy | no. |
| Mary Ann Gardner | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
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