Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Reading Union, Berkshire, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Stephen Harriss | 9 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Edward Withers | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Edward Gregory | 7 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Henry Chitty | 6 | 6 | ditto | no. |
John Marshall | 11 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
Samuel Saunders | 8 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
Thomas Pitter | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
John Hance | 60 | 0 | Idiotcy | no. |
James Edgeston | 11 | 0 | No employ | no. |
Lucy Hiscock | 11 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Sarah Hiscock | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Tibble | 8 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
Sarah Ann Petty | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Hadley | 7 | 0 | Imbecility | no. |
Mary Jennings | 13 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Rebecca Rogers | 9 | 0 | Epileptic fits | no. |
Deborah Dew | 5 | 0 | Rheumatism | no. |
Elizabeth Birkett | 26 | 0 | Cancer | no. |
Anjuin Beck | 20 | 0 | Imbecility | no. |
Caroline Higgs | 20 | 0 | Scrofula | no. |
Sarah Titcombe | 13 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Elizabeth Berry | 13 | 0 | Imbecility | no. |
Susan Ballard | 26 | 0 | Scrofula | no. |
James Cottrell | 11 | 0 | Imbecility | no. |
Messenger Keeley | 13 | 0 | No employ | no. |
Hannah Keeley | 13 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Tuplin | 26 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
William Hide | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
George Hatton | 9 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
James Lister | 30 | 0 | Imbecility | no. |
George Millington | 20 | 0 | Idiotcy | no. |
William Hannington | 21 | 0 | Illness | no. |
John Davis | 11 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
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