Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Ipswich Union, Suffolk, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isaac Lenny | 5 | 0 | Insanity | no. |
| Edward Planten | 5 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
| Lucy Peeling | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Sharman | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Martha Brown | 5 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| John Fuller | 7 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
| Eleanor Noble | 5 | 0 | Husband's desertion | no. |
| Hannah Harvey | 5 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| Edmund Taylor | 5 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
| John Warner | 5 | 0 | Insanity | no. |
| Hannah Cooper | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Samuel Parker | 6 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
| William Wilkinson | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Clarke | 7 | 0 | Insanity | no. |
| George Leggett | 7 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
| William Seeger | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Maria Ransome | 5 | 0 | ditto | workh. school. |
| Daniel Southgate | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Samuel Coob | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| James Manning | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Noble | 8 | 0 | ditto | workh. school. |
| Clara Peeling | 9 | 0 | ditto | workh. school. |
| Richard Griggs | 8 | 0 | Insanity | no. |
| James Long | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Garnham | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Robert Downing | 7 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
| Henry Gray | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Amelia Gray | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Hannah Cutting | 5 | 0 | ditto | workh. school. |
| Joseph Hill | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Beaumont | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Hayward | 20 | 0 | Insanity | no. |
| Harriet Whitby | 6 | 0 | Destitution | workh. school. |
| Elizabeth Frost | 20 | 0 | Insanity | workh. school. |
| Henry Buckingham | 20 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
| Emily Hunt | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Cross | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Vesey | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Last | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Brown | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Melbourne | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Samuel Hewitt | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Jemima Marsh | 6 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
| Frederick Rowell | 6 | 0 | Insanity | no. |
| Louisa Josling | 10 | 0 | Destitution | workh. school. |
| Sarah Stammers | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Hayward | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Double | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Barke | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Balls | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Samuel Everett | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Hammond | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Bowman | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Maria Rouson | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Hurricks | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ellen Hall | 5 | 0 | Insanity | no. |
| Emma Clarke, alias Garnham | 7 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
| Mary James | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Lucock | 16 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Maria Matt, alias Wright | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Butcher | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Arm Truelove | 5 | 0 | Insanity | no. |
| William Thwaite | 10 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
| Sarah Gloding | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Abraham Sarger | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Hawkins | 6 | 0 | Insanity | no. |
| Eliza Peggs | 5 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
| Eliza Reman | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Potler | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Samuel Vincent | 17 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Lord | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| James Randall | 6 | 0 | Insanity | no. |
| Henry Bennett | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Stephen Lord | 7 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
| Edward Bryant | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| David Taylor | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Robert Warren | 7 | 0 | Insanity | no. |
| John Garrod | 5 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
| William Leggett | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Susannah Kirby | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| David Pinner | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Matthews | 30 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Hannah Brown | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Burrows | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Lamb | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
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