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Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Belper Union, Derbyshire, 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.

NameYrsms.ReasonSchool
Eliza England180Idiotno.
William Wagstaffe170dittono.
Mary Gregory150dittono.
Elizabeth Rhodes60dittono.
James Poundall200dittono.
Ann Allsop150dittono.
Martha Sellers130dittono.
Elizabeth Spencer60Old ageno.
George Cheetham160Idiotno.
William Smiles70Old ageno.
Martha Shardlow160Idiotno.
Caroline Lovatt100dittono.
Ann Walker60Old ageno.
William Martin70Idiotno.
Henry Hutchinson100dittono.
Sarah Deverall80dittono.
Harriet Hough90dittono.
Thomas Walker140dittono.
Thomas Hall100dittono.
William Hill110Weak mindno.
Mary Bunting100Old age.no.
William Horobin60Idiotno.
Benjamin Stevenson110Old ageno.

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