Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Faversham 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ann Sutton | 11 | 0 | Having a family, and being deserted by her husband. | no. |
| Thomas Spingles | 6 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| Jane Ottaway | 6 | 6 | Weak intellect | workh. school. |
| Sarah Rook | 25 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| Louisa Page | 25 | 0 | Loss of eye-sight | no. |
| Thomas Collard | 12 | 0 | Rhuematism | no. |
| William Baldock | 9 | 6 | Infirmity of mind | no. |
| Catherine Spendiff | 5 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
| Thomas Gammon | 17 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Packman | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Moody | 14 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| H. Cosgrove | 13 | 0 | Paralysis | workh. school. |
| C. Hills | 6 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
| S. Sheridan | 5 | 6 | ditto | no. |
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