Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Rochdale Union, Lancashire, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Isaac Garside | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
James Clegg | 5 | 0 | Imbecility | no. |
Samuel Kershaw | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Alice Taylor | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Henry Bardsley | 5 | 0 | Imbecility | no. |
Betty Entwistle | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Betsy Lee | 5 | 0 | Rheumatism | no. |
William Smith | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
William Chadwick | 5 | 0 | Fits | no. |
James Stott | 6 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
Eli Dean | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
James Ogden | 5 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
George Howarth | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Robert Cass | 5 | 0 | Blind | no. |
James Sharrocks | 5 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Jonathan Butterworth | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Holt | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
James Livsey | 5 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Benjamin Mills | 5 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Sophia Collinge | 5 | 0 | Blind | no. |
Alice Livsey | 5 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Jane Howard | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Crossley | 5 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Betty Healey | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Martha Hoyle | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Judith Jackson | 8 | 9 | Old age and weakness in right hand | no. |
John Fitton | 8 | 6 | Deaf; dumb and lame | no. |
Ann Wolfenden | 11 | 10 | Insane | no. |
Eliza Clegg | 18 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
Sarah Fielding | 18 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Jackson | 8 | 9 | ditto | no. |
Edmund Simpson | 8 | 3 | Old and lame | no. |
Elizabeth Whitehead | 9 | 11 | Deaf and dumb | no. |
Betty Whittles | 18 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Robert Baron | 11 | 4 | ditto | no. |
Walter Clegg | 9 | 0 | Lunatic | no. |
John Whitworth | 10 | 0 | Ruptured | no. |
James Brearley | 8 | 0 | Lame | no. |
Ann Bateman | 6 | 6 | Old and blind | no. |
Betty Baxter | 6 | 6 | Lame and bedfast | no. |
Mary Leach | 8 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Thomas Schofield | 6 | 6 | Old age | no. |
Mary Howorth | 5 | 7 | Idiot | no. |
William Hanson | 8 | 0 | Lame | no. |
Betty Holroyd | 7 | 0 | Blind | no. |
Sarah Harrison | 6 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
Mary Howard | 6 | 6 | Old age | no. |
Rhoda Lees | 7 | 0 | Fits | no. |
Susan Farrow | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
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