Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Ellesmere Union, Shropshire, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
John Pollett | 7 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
Caroline Davies | 13 | 0 | Insanity | no. |
Philip Pickering | 6 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
Sarah Rogers | 5 | 0 | Weak mind, and having a bastard | no. |
William Minshall | 5 | 0 | An idiot | no. |
Henry Phillips | 35 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Caroline Evans | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Williams | 8 | 0 | Weak mind, and having a bastard | no. |
Elizabeth Davies | 11 | 0 | An idiot | no. |
Joseph Jenks | 10 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
Thomas Phillips | 7 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
Richard Smith | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Charles Worrall | 6 | 0 | An idiot | no. |
Richard Dawes | 6 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Richard Jones | 6 | 0 | Insanity | no. |
Samuel Jones | 8 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
Thomas Dovaston | 5 | 0 | Inability to support family through infirmity | no. |
Enoch Price | 5 | 0 | Deaf and dumb | no. |
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