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Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Leicester Union, Leicestershire, 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
Thomas Allen90Has fitsunknown.
James Chatwin90Imbecileunknown.
William Ford90Old ageunknown.
William Mebberson70dittounknown.
Mary Munrow60dittounknown.
Samuel Price60dittounknown.
Joseph Smith90dittounknown.
Sarah Smith90Has fitsunknown.
William Smith90Old ageunknown.
Thomas Snow60dittounknown.
John Bettridge50dittounknown.
William Jeays60dittounknown.
Thomas Tansley50dittounknown.
John Bell90dittounknown.
John Beaumont90Imbecileunknown.
Stephen Beale90dittounknown.
Joseph Cooke90dittounknown.
Elizabeth Fowkes80dittounknown.
Thomas Hilton70Old ageunknown.
Samuel Moore90Imbecileunknown.
Michael Martin60dittounknown.
Sarah Riley50dittounknown.
Frederick Taylor60dittounknown.
Elizabeth Underwood90dittounknown.
Ann Watson60Old ageunknown.
Hannah Marvin60dittounknown.
Edward Cox90Imbecileunknown.
Thomas Payne60Old ageunknown.
William Loseby60dittounknown.
Thomas Read90Sicknessunknown.
Daniel AshweIl90Eyesight badunknown.
John Hayfield90Imbecileunknown.
John Jacques70dittounknown.
William Whitworth90dittounknown.
Samuel Cutler60Old ageunknown.
John Drakley60Imbecileunknown.
Elisabeth Daft60Debilityunknown.
Sarah Bruce90Old ageunknown.
Charlotte Hackett80Imbecileunknown.
Edwin Higginson60dittounknown.
John Langham60Old ageunknown.
William Ross90Imbecileunknown.
James Watkinson90dittounknown.
Francis Dooley90Old ageunknown.
William Johnson90dittounknown.
William Darker60Blindunknown.
Elizabeth Harriss80Old ageunknown.
Catharine Harriss90dittounknown.
James Gurden90Imbecileunknown.
Thomas Scott90Old ageunknown.
Sarah Wright90Imbecileunknown.
William Mountaney50Old ageunknown.
Thomas Lambley50dittounknown.
Elizabeth Orton50dittounknown.
Charles Yearby90Imbecileunknown.
Daniel Brethwaite50Old ageunknown.
Harriett Baldwin70Imbecileunknown.
Hezekiah Barsby60Debilityunknown.
Leonard Wright50Imbecileunknown.
Robert Hyde70dittounknown.

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