Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Highworth and Swindon 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mary Kibblewhite | 4 | 0 | Idiot, and subject to fits | no. |
Jane Garlick | 14 | 0 | Idiot | workh. school. |
Elizabeth Lewis | 14 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Jane Walker | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Hannah Adams | 12 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Robert May | 10 | 0 | Paralysis. | no. |
Ann Clargo | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Mary Knight | 7 | 0 | Sickness | no. |
Sophia Athrill | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ruth Cornwell | 6 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
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