Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Medway Union, Kent, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
William Abbott | 20 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Jane Miles Austen | 7 | 6 | Insane | no. |
James Austen | 15 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
John Brown | 8 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Edward Barrett | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Balsden | - | - | Idiotic | workh. school. |
William Bennett | 7 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Elizabeth Catherine | 5 | 0 | Inability through bad legs | no. |
Mary Church | 19 | 0 | Deformed | workh. school. |
Charlotte Durrant | 7 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Thomas Durrant | 12 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
William Day | 11 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Daniel Donohoo | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Henry Dyke | 13 | 0 | Blind and deaf | no. |
George Erith | 7 | 6 | Insane | no. |
Robert Freeman | 13 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Elizabeth Frid | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Fearn | 24 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Janet Henrietta Foster | 7 | 6 | Insane | no. |
John Fearman | 6 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Sarah Gambier | 6 | 6 | Idiotic | no. |
Ann Gest | 6 | 6 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Harrison | 7 | 6 | Insane | no. |
Sarah Hills | 20 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
James Hills | 5 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Charles Thomas Holliday | 6 | 0 | Insane | no. |
Frances Hinckley | 6 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Thomas Inwood | 8 | 0 | Inability through illness | no. |
Elizabeth Kains | 14 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
John Lyons | 17 | 0 | Crippled | no. |
John Levy | 26 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
James Lansfield | 17 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
Mary Lewis | 7 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Arthur Lester | 9 | 0 | Deformed | no. |
Ann Morrison | 6 | 6 | Infirm | no. |
William Masters | 6 | 6 | Spinal disease | no. |
Margaret Michaels | 8 | 0 | Idiocy | no. |
William Obee | 6 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Maria Pickett | 6 | 0 | Poverty | no. |
John Parnell | 7 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
William Thomas Pearce | 18 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Robert Pearce | 6 | 0 | A cripple | no. |
Sophia Pride | 19 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Richard Parr | 7 | 0 | Insanity | no. |
Maria Phillpott | 6 | 0 | Insane | no. |
John Palmer | 7 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Sarah Raby | 20 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Sophia Ravey | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Rowe | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Roberts | 17 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
Rhoda Rule | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Tester | 17 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Wilhelmina Thomas | 7 | 6 | Insane | no. |
Timothy Thompson | 7 | 6 | ditto | no. |
Martha Thompson | 7 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Charles Varrell | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Wood | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Ward | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Susan Young | 17 | 0 | Blind and deaf | no. |
John Collins | 9 | 0 | Insane | no. |
Elizabeth Lawrence | 9 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
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