Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Kingston-upon-Hull Union, East Riding of Yorkshire, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Joseph Stickney | 43 | 0 | Weak minded | no. |
David Snow | 25 | 0 | Aged | no. |
Elizabeth Bramwell | 20 | 0 | Aged and infirm | no. |
Hannah Betts | 18 | 0 | Aged; widow | no. |
Dinah Johnson | 15 | 0 | Partial paralysis | no. |
Betty Moatson | 13 | 0 | Aged and destitute | no. |
Elizabeth Butt | 13 | 0 | Weak minded | workh. school. |
Ann Murphy | 13 | 0 | ditto | workh. school. |
George Linley | 13 | 0 | Blind | no. |
Marmaduke Brewster | 13 | 0 | ditto | no. |
James Quigley | 11 | 0 | Aged and very infirm | no. |
Mary Ann Tanfield | 11 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Sarah Moor | 10 | 0 | Deaf and dumb | no. |
Sarah Jackson | 10 | 0 | Weak minded | no. |
Mary Girdham | 10 | 0 | Illegitimate children | no. |
John Hodgson | 9 | 0 | Partial paralysis | no. |
Martha Meek | 9 | 0 | Aged and very infirm | no. |
Dorothy Louth | 6 | 0 | Aged and infirm | no. |
Mary Fieldhonse | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Thomas Barker | 9 | 0 | Aged, and unable to maintain himself | no. |
John Munroe | 8 | 0 | Unable to maintain himself | no. |
Richard Carroll | 7 | 0 | Contracted arm | no. |
Samuel Levitt | 7 | 0 | Aged and infirm | no. |
Henry Lazenby | 7 | 0 | Aged and very infirm | no. |
Ellen Hick | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Jobn Bramhall | 7 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
John Windle | 6 | 0 | Partial paralysis | no. |
Ann Windle | 6 | 0 | Aged | no. |
Elizabeth Shaw | 6 | 0 | Aged and infirm | no. |
James Jackson | 6 | 0 | Lameness; constitutionally weak | no. |
Mary Gleadow | 6 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Betty Keddy | 6 | 0 | Weak minded | no. |
William Jowitt | 6 | 0 | Lame | no. |
Dorothy Jowitt | 6 | 0 | Aged | no. |
Louisa Driver | 6 | 0 | Weak minded | no. |
Emma Fowler | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Thornasin Linwood | 5 | 0 | Aged and infirm | no. |
Elizabeth Hesslewood | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Maria Story | 5 | 0 | Aged and very, infirm | no. |
Thomas Fowler | 5 | 0 | Insane | no. |
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