Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Totnes Union, Devon, 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 Hannaford | 5 | 6 | Bad legs | no. |
John Gribble | 6 | 6 | ditto | no. |
John Dew | 12 | 0 | Seizure | no. |
James Parker | 7 | 0 | Fistula | no. |
Richard Goodridge | 6 | 0 | Weakness of mind | no. |
Mary Searle | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Elizabeth Manly | 6 | 0 | Rupture | no. |
Elizabeth Eales | 7 | 0 | Lameness and blind | no. |
Mary Callard | 6 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
Jane Arscott | 8 | 0 | Deformed | no. |
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