Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Lancaster Union, Lancashire, 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 Ellis | 9 | 0 | Old age | no. |
John Osbaldeston | 6 | 0 | Mental imbecility | no. |
John Jackson | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Brunton | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Stephenson | 5 | 0 | Lameness | no. |
Ann Hinde | 24 | 0 | Lameness and old age | no. |
Ann Carr | 11 | 0 | Insanity | no. |
Mary Braithwaite | 8 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Eliza Kirkby | 18 | 0 | Mental imbecility | no. |
Nancy Bamber | 15 | 0 | Scrofula | no. |
Margaret Bulfield | 7 | 0 | Mental imbecility | no. |
Sarah Johnson | 8 | 0 | Epileptic fits | workh. school. |
Jane Prickett | 6 | 0 | Mental imbecility | no. |
Margery Blayard | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
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