Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Launceston Union, Cornwall, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
John Berny | 8 | 0 | Old and infirm | no. |
Jane Leigh | 13 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Philippa Elliott | 13 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Shepherd | 9 | 0 | Old and infirm | no. |
Grace Congdon | 5 | 0 | Three illegitimate children | no. |
Priscilla Foot | 20 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Sophia Hoskyn | 5 | 0 | Old and infirm | no. |
Robert Phillips | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Charles Coombe | 10 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
William Smale | 6 | 0 | Old and infirm | no. |
Kitty Foot | 19 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
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