Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Winchcomb Union, Gloucestershire, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Thomas Bartlett | 11 | 0 | Old and infirm (a cripple) | no. |
Joseph Stanley | 11 | 0 | Old and infirm | no. |
Elizabeth Hall | 22 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
Jacob James | 9 | 0 | Old and infirm | no. |
John Reeves | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Louisa Garrison | 22 | 0 | Deaf and dumb | no. |
George Tarran | 5 | 0 | A cripple | no. |
Job Robinson | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
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