Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Alverstoke Parish, Hampshire, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caroline Griffin | 9 | 0 | Imbecile | |
| Jane Yarwood | 5 | 0 | Old age | |
| Edward Booker | 10 | 0 | Fits | |
| Charles Churcher | 7 | 0 | Rheumatics | |
| William Watson | 6 | 0 | Fits | |
| Charlotte Oram | 9 | 0 | Imbecile | |
| Elizabeth Simms | 7 | 0 | Blind | |
| Stephen Smith | 6 | 0 | Old age | |
| Jane Davis | 6 | 0 | ditto | |
| Harriet Carter | 7 | 0 | ditto | |
| Nicholas Adams | 8 | 0 | Blind | |
| Sarah Adams | 8 | 0 | Wife of above | |
| John Mortimore | 5 | 0 | Old age and illness | |
| John Maurice Spleen | 8 | 0 | ditto | |
| Ann Forward | 12 | 0 | ditto | |
| Fanny Wilkinson | 10 | 0 | ditto | |
| Edward Ware | 12 | 0 | Lame | |
| William Washington | 16 | 0 | Sight partially gone | |
| Caroline Whitcomb | 20 | 0 | Insane | |
| Edward Trimmings | 9 | 0 | Old age | |
| Sarah Smith | 14 | 0 | ditto | |
| Susannah Roberts | 6 | 0 | Old age and illness | |
| Charles Roe | 11 | 0 | Old age | |
| Thomas Roper | 16 | 0 | Imbecile | |
| Maria Rood | 24 | 0 | ditto | |
| Benjamin Pink | 20 | 0 | Old age | |
| Alexander Pickering | 20 | 0 | Lame | |
| Thomas Phillips | 25 | 0 | ditto | |
| Elizabeth Orr | 12 | 0 | ditto | |
| Mary Mason | 9 | 0 | Insane | |
| Mary Lander | 20 | 0 | Old age | |
| Edward Futcher | 17 | 0 | Imbecile | |
| Harriet Futcher | 15 | 0 | ditto | |
| Rosetta Diaper | 10 | 0 | ditto | |
| Elizabeth Brantdz | 15 | 0 | Affliction | |
| Daniel Brown | 12 | 0 | Fits | |
| Harriet Blake | 15 | 0 | Imbecile | |
| Maria Atkinson | 21 | 0 | Old age and illness | |
| Mary Ann Rose | 6 | 0 | ditto | |
| Mary Hill | 10 | 0 | Imbecile | |
| Ann Williams | 28 | 0 | Insane | |
| Sarah Henley | 60 | 0 | Imbecile | |
| William Holly | 14 | 0 | Old age | |
| Elizabeth Bulger | 18 | 0 | ditto | |
| John Young | 6 | 0 | Imbecile |
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