Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Chepstow Union, Monmouthshire, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Elizabeth Powell | 21 | 0 | Lunacy, harmless; old and infirm | no. |
Charlotte Jones | 15 | 0 | Formerly deserted; of weak mind; aged | no. |
Edward Jones | 14 | 0 | Idiocy, quite harmless | workhouse. |
John Cox | 14 | 0 | Idiocy, much deformed | no. |
Thomas Clifford | 12 | 0 | Rheumatism and old age | no. |
William Ellis | 11 | 0 | Infirmity and old age | no. |
John Pedlingham | 11 | 0 | Fracture of skull, weak | no. |
John Harris | 10 | 0 | Rheumatism and old age | no. |
William Young | 9 | 0 | Epilepsy; weak and infirm | workhouse. |
Luke Saunders | 8 | 0 | Lunacy, quite harmless; imbecile | no. |
William Williams | 7 | 0 | Diseased leg, old age and infirmity | no. |
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