Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Banbury Union, Oxfordshire, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
John Robinson | 20 | 0 | Idiocy | unknown. |
Susan Hughes | 20 | 0 | ditto | unknown. |
Harriet Clifton | 20 | 0 | ditto | unknown. |
Ruth Woodward | 20 | 0 | ditto | unknown. |
Sarah Baker | 20 | 0 | ditto | unknown. |
Mary Gardner | 7 | 0 | Fits | unknown. |
William Hirons | 20 | 0 | Idiocy | unknown. |
Thomas Simpson | 12 | 0 | ditto | unknown. |
Richard Garrett | 8 | 0 | Old age | unknown. |
John Berry | 7 | 0 | ditto | unknown. |
Thomas Wills | 20 | 0 | Idiocy | unknown. |
Mary Morby | 10 | 0 | ditto | unknown. |
Sophia Bonham | 20 | 0 | Blind | unknown. |
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