Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Canterbury Union, Kent, 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 |
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Susan Pout | 20 | 0 | Afflicted with palsy, and idiotcy | no. |
Mary Blake | 20 | 0 | Want of employment and without means | no. |
Sarah Bligh | 25 | 0 | Imbecility of mind | no. |
Mary Brown | 25 | 0 | Want of employment and of intemperate habits | no. |
Mary Lenoy | 40 | 0 | Inability to maintain herself | no. |
William Gardner | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Iggulden | 16 | 0 | Idiotic and dumb | no. |
Charlotte Willard | 16 | 0 | Mental aberration, rendering her unable to get her livelihood | no. |
Thomas Hollands | 16 | 0 | A cripple, and incapable of maintaining himself. | workh. school. |
Hope White | 16 | 0 | Afflicted with epilepsy | no. |
William Spicer | 11 | 0 | Subject to epilepsy and of intemperate habits | no. |
John Tate | 12 | 0 | Want of employment and of intemperate habits | no. |
Dinah Collis | 9 | 0 | Old age and incapable of employment. | no. |
Sarah Hornewood | 12 | 0 | Want of employment | no. |
Elizabeth Bennett | 12 | 0 | Mental aberration | no. |
Mary Johnson | 11 | 0 | Old age and incapable of employment | no. |
Alfred Cross | 15 | 0 | Want of employment, &c. | no. |
Robert Bourne | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Robert Compton | 10 | 0 | Want of employment and afflicted with rheumatism | no. |
Elizabeth Rogers | 8 | 0 | Incapable of maintaining herself | no. |
John Eves | 9 | 0 | Old age and incapable of employment | no. |
Charles Boree | 8 | 0 | Want of employment and intemperance | no. |
Sarah Quigley | 6 | 0 | Old age and intemperance | no. |
Elizabeth Larmer | 5 | 6 | Old age and inability to work | no. |
Thomas Denne | 5 | 6 | Afflicted with epilepsy and inability to maintain himself | no. |
John Stanworth | 5 | 6 | Want of employment and of intemperate habits | no. |
Frances Foulsey | 5 | 0 | Old age and incapable of employment | no. |
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