Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Uckfield Union, Sussex, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan Homewood | 9 | 0 | Infirmity and old age | |
| Sarah Homewood | 9 | 0 | ditto | |
| Richard Berwick | 19 | 0 | ditto | |
| Lois Fenner | 6 | 0 | ditto | |
| Daniel Seright | 7 | 0 | ditto | |
| Thomas Tyler | 9 | 0 | Cripple. | |
| Thomas Parker | 8 | 0 | Infirmity and old age | |
| Ann Durraut | 20 | 0 | ditto | |
| Sarah Sandalls | 8 | 0 | ditto | |
| George Stevens | 20 | 0 | ditto | |
| Thomas Burley | 17 | 0 | Idiotic | |
| Mary Turner | 18 | 0 | ditto | |
| Abigail Brissenden | 24 | 0 | ditto | |
| Emma Potter | 11 | 0 | Idiotic and deaf and dumb |
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