Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Wareham Union, Dorset, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Jane Elms | 14 | 0 | Pregnancy | no. |
Eliza Elms | 14 | 0 | Pregnancy, and afterwards paralysis | no. |
Hannah Card | 6 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
Lavonia Payne | 20 | 0 | Pregnancy | no. |
Mary Ann Pitman | 6 | 0 | Weak mind | district school. |
Emma Toms | 12 | 0 | Parents dead; suffering from cutaneous disease | union school. |
Philip Dorey | 21 | 0 | Ruptured | no. |
Charles Landers | 12 | 0 | Rheumatics | private school. |
Thomas Ridcat | 14 | 0 | Blind | district school. |
John Travers | 15 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
William Guy | 8 | 0 | Cripple | district school. |
John Lewis | 19 | 0 | Fits | no. |
John Edwards | 13 | 0 | Bad legs | district school. |
George Snooks | 10 | 0 | Paralysis | national school. |
William Cousins | 11 | 0 | Debility | no. |
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