Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Coventry Incorporation, Warwickshire, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ann Hewitt | 20 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
William Sandy | 10 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
John Egan | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Samuel Dadley | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Robert Broughill | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Michael Brooks | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Cole | 8 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
John Barnwell | 9 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
William Lines | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Butler | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Edward Johnson | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Cook | 12 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Frederick Jones | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Hiorns | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Jones | 30 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
Sarah Bradshaw | 16 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Elizabeth Carpenter | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Goward | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Buinard | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Kirk | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Hands | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Catherine Villiers | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Maria Chamberlain | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Harris | 6 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Emma Farren | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Harriet Charley | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Priscilla Bradbury | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Smith | 16 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Hooper | 6 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Mary Hewitt | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ann Egan | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Stockley | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Ward | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Ballard | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
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