Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Chailey Union, Sussex, 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 Brooker | 22 | 0 | Old age and Infirmity | |
| Mary Hemsley | 13 | 0 | Old age and crippled | |
| Sophia Phillips | 7 | 0 | Totally deaf and of weak intellect | |
| Thomas Hills | 8 | 0 | Idiotic | |
| Henry Brown | 8 | 0 | ditto | |
| Sarah Comber | 7 | 0 | ditto | |
| Mary Ann Attred | 7 | 0 | Wholly disabled from paralysis. | |
| Thomas Chambers | 7 | 0 | Age and Infirmity | |
| Thomas Greenwood | 6 | 0 | Disease of the heart. | |
| Ann Miller | 5 | 0 | Blindness |
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