Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Penrith Union, Cumberland, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
William Askew | 6 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
Jonathan Simpson | 8 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
Agnes Atkinson | 10 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
Sarah Ousby | 23 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
Frances Ousby | 18 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
Isabella Stewart | 6 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
William Nicholson | 5 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
William Sherrit | 5 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
Margaret Hodgson | 7 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
Margaret Cowin | 29 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
Frances Bell | 6 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
Sarah Bell | 11 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
Thomas Greenhow | 8 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
John Ireland | 20 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
Nancy Maughan | 5 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
Elizabeth Mullinder | 7 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
James McGee | 5 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
Richard Routledge | 10 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
Joseph Rodgers | 5 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
Isaac Todd | 15 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
George Ward | 6 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
Hannah Greaves | 12 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
Thomas Brown | 5 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
Hannah Clementson | 11 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
William Edmondson | 12 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
Hugh McGuire | 5 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
Joseph Richardson | 12 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
John Varty | 5 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
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