Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Mitford and Launditch Union, Norfolk, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
William Gould | 6 | 0 | Aged and infirm | no. |
George Rose | 26 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
Robert Plummer | 18 | 0 | Aged and infirm | no. |
John Mann | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Robert Newell | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Martin | 13 | 0 | Idiot | unknown. |
John Bone | 6 | 0 | Imbecile | unknown. |
Daniel Ralling | 15 | 0 | Idiot | unknown. |
John King | 25 | 0 | ditto | unknown. |
Henry Hillng | 11 | 0 | ditto | unknown. |
Matthew Yaxley | 15 | 0 | Paralysed | no. |
Butcher Bird | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Forby | 21 | 0 | Idiot | unknown. |
Hannah Rayner | 14 | 0 | ditto | unknown. |
Susannah Catton | 8 | 0 | A widow, with three legitimate children, and one bastard child. | no. |
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