Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Barton-upon-Irwell Union, Lancashire, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Sharlock | 6 | 6 | Debility | no. |
| Henry Turner | 8 | 0 | Idiot | workh. school. |
| Samuel Lawton | 10 | 0 | Weak minded | no. |
| John Higginbottom | 5 | 6 | Infirm | no. |
| Margaret Taylor | 5 | 6 | Idiot | no. |
| Ellen Ashcroft | 5 | 0 | ditto, | no. |
| Alice Renshaw | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| David Lloyd | 6 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
| Jane Cordwell | 7 | 0 | no. | |
| Charles Hardman | 5 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
| Sarah Gratrix | 7 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| Betsy Hulme | 8 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
| Margaret Donnelly | 8 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| Thomas Crompton | 8 | 0 | no. | |
| Martha Cookson | 8 | 0 | Widow | no. |
| Elizabeth Beswick | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Isaac Pollitt | 9 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| Adam Stabley | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Armstrong | 10 | 0 | Blind | no. |
| Alice Hickson | 9 | 0 | no. | |
| Mary Withington | 9 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| Elizabeth Johnson | 9 | 0 | no. | |
| Richard Pollitt | 5 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| Richard Muggs | 8 | 0 | Blind | no. |
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