Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Wilton Union, Wiltshire, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Zilpha Perrior | 24 | 0 | Idiocy | no. |
Mary Hughes | 13 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Charlotte Moores | 22 | 0 | Lunacy | no. |
Charlotte Dimmer | 15 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
Harriet Saunders | 11 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
Ann Davis | 6 | 6 | Subject to fits | no. |
Maria Chalke | 11 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
Emma Blake | 19 | 0 | Idiocy | no. |
Elizabeth Bennett | 24 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Curtis | 9 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
Samuel Rowden | 16 | 0 | Old age | no. |
John Gilbert | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Henry Shergold | 9 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
Thomas Lampard | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Joseph Davis | 11 | 0 | Idiocy | no. |
William Adlam | 14 | 0 | Lunacy | no. |
George Musselwhite | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
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