Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Salford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Betty Andrews | 5 | 0 | Lame and destitute | no. |
| Mary York | 6 | 0 | Lame | no. |
| Maria Brierley | 7 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
| Mary Lawton | 5 | 0 | Sickness | no. |
| Margaret Buckley | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Betty Hickman | 7 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
| Elizabeth Leary | 17 | 0 | Imbecility | no. |
| James Leary | 17 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Catherine Lane | 10 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
| Elizabeth Roberts | 5 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
| Robert Roberts | 5 | 0 | Lame | no. |
| Mary Connor | 5 | 6 | Sickness | no. |
| Rachel Baron | 6 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
| Martha Whittaker | 17 | 0 | Old age and rheumatism | no. |
| Caroline Leadbeater | 10 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
| Mary Davies | 15 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
| Mary Whitehead | 6 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| Harriett Speed | 6 | 0 | Sickness and imbecility | no. |
| Mary Willett | 6 | 0 | Sickness and lame | no. |
| Ann Bell | 7 | 0 | Imbecile and paralysed | no. |
| Mary Glassonbury | 6 | 0 | Old age and paralysed | no. |
| Elizabeth Smirkwaite | 15 | 0 | Sickness and age | no. |
| Sarah Ann Longworth | 7 | 0 | Sickness and lame | no. |
| Margaret Keeley | 12 | 0 | Partially imbecile | no. |
| Ellen Fleming | 5 | 0 | Partly insane | no. |
| Isaac Nixon | 5 | 0 | Lameness | no. |
| George Hampson | 9 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
| Benjamin Harrison | 9 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| John Jones | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Yates | 7 | 0 | Rheumatics | no. |
| James Walmsley | 8 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| John Millar | 5 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
| James Maude | 16 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Charles Glover | 6 | 0 | Sickness and infirmity | no. |
| James Hallsworth | 5 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
| Garnet Herbert | 8 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
| Daniel Dale | 9 | 0 | Imbecile and paralysed | no. |
| James Smith | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| William Edwards | 9 | 0 | Epilepsy | no. |
| John Whittle | 9 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| James Thompson | 5 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
| Robert Jones | 5 | 0 | Destitute and old age | no. |
| Stephen Markland | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Brooks | 12 | 0 | Lame and partly imbecile | no. |
| John Taylor | 10 | 0 | Lame and old age | no. |
| Mary Wilkinson | 16 | 0 | Lame and infirmity | no. |
| Matilda Townsend | 5 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
| Elizabeth Pearson | 12 | 0 | Imbecile and dumb | no. |
| John Bowman | 7 | 0 | Paralysed | no. |
| Joseph Harrison | 5 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
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