Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Beverley Union, East Riding of Yorkshire, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ann Baker | 20 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Sarah Cook | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Ward | 5 | 0 | Epileptic | no. |
Jane Gibson | 5 | 0 | Paralysed | no. |
Ann Hesslehurst | 5 | 0 | Blind | no. |
Richard Sheppherd | 10 | 0 | Idiocy | no. |
Henry Sheppherd | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Witty | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Clark | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Collinson | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Maria Milner | 6 | 0 | Idiocy | no. |
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