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Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Coventry Incorporation, Warwickshire, 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.

NameYrsms.ReasonSchool
Ann Hewitt200Imbecileno.
William Sandy100Infirmno.
John Egan100dittono.
Samuel Dadley80dittono.
Robert Broughill60dittono.
Michael Brooks100dittono.
John Cole80Imbecileno.
John Barnwell90Infirmno.
William Lines60dittono.
William Butler140dittono.
Edward Johnson200dittono.
William Cook120Imbecileno.
Frederick Jones150dittono.
William Hiorns100dittono.
John Jones300Idioticno.
Sarah Bradshaw160Infirmno.
Elizabeth Carpenter60dittono.
Ann Goward150dittono.
Elizabeth Buinard60dittono.
Elizabeth Kirk110dittono.
Mary Hands150dittono.
Catherine Villiers70dittono.
Maria Chamberlain90dittono.
Elizabeth Harris60Imbecileno.
Emma Farren100dittono.
Harriet Charley60dittono.
Priscilla Bradbury100dittono.
Mary Smith160dittono.
Mary Hooper60Infirmno.
Mary Hewitt100dittono.
Ann Egan100dittono.
Elizabeth Stockley140dittono.
Mary Ward140dittono.
Mary Ballard140dittono.

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