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Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Shifnal Union, Shropshire, 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
Emanuel Fenn240Not able-bodied; destitution incurably ruptured; partially deaf and dumb.unknown.
Elizabeth Easthope230A harmless idiot; incapable of learning.no.
Jane Turner220dittono.
John Smith90Incurable disease; fistula. Respectably connected but disowned by his relatives and friends, owing to his profligacy in early life; educated in a classical school.no.
Joseph Farnall80Chronic rheumatism of long standing.no.

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