Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Bury 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Brooks | 8 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| Sarah Davenport | 8 | 0 | Paralytic | no. |
| John Holt | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Lucy Peers | 8 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| John Bothwell | 14 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Harriett Turner | 14 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| Edward Wallwork | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Edward Wardle | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Samuel Booth | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Greenhalgh | 16 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Nuttull | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Ann Ormerod | 14 | 0 | Insane | no. |
| Henry Parker | 5 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
| Alice Rawlinson | 13 | 0 | Lunatic | no. |
| Emmerson Smith | 11 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| Jane Whittle | 10 | 0 | Insane | no. |
| Rebecca Fielding | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Lilly | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| James Ashworth | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Sarah Berry | 14 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| John Eccles | 14 | 0 | ditto | yes. |
| Sally Partington | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Standring | 5 | 0 | Insane | no. |
| William Warburton | 13 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Ashton | 13 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| Abraham Kershaw | 14 | 0 | ditto | yes. |
| Ann Kershaw | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Samuel Partington | 16 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ellen Bracewell | 7 | 0 | Insane | no. |
| Betty Ernmerson | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Joseph Fray | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Martha Fenton | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Adolphus Hill | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Holt | 10 | 0 | Idiot | yes. |
| Jane Jones | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Jones | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Lindley | 11 | 0 | Insane | no. |
| Joel Ogden | 11 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
| William Gee | 7 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| Richard Richmond | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Swinburne | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Peter Walker | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Richard Walker | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Joseph Wroe | 5 | 0 | Paralytic | no. |
| Ann Barlow | 13 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| Squire Gregory | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Holmes | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| James Greenhalgh | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Betty Ashworth | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| James Cherry | 9 | 0 | Insane | no. |
| Betty Fletcher | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Jane Stott | 14 | 0 | Idiot | yes. |
| Harriet Warburton | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Wilson | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Howarth | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
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