Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Stamford Union, Lincolnshire, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
George Allen | 11 | 0 | Deformed, and lame | no. |
Thomas Barlow | 22 | 0 | Deaf, dumb, and crippled | no. |
William Elderkin | 7 | 0 | Old age, and subject to fits | no. |
George Foister | 7 | 0 | Weak in holly and mind | no. |
Ann Lightfoot | 6 | 0 | Age, and weak mind | no. |
Thomas Marlow | 12 | 0 | Idiot from birth | no. |
William Marlow | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Simon Sharpe | 12 | 0 | Deformed, and aged | no. |
Francis Tealby | 16 | 0 | Lame, and ruptured | no. |
Joseph Oldham | 6 | 0 | Rheumatism, and ruptured | no. |
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