Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Oundle Union, Northamptonshire, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Elizabeth Fox | 22 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Elizabeth Blackwell | 14 | 0 | Infirm from age | no. |
Thomas Reynolds | 10 | 0 | Blind | no. |
William Dyson | 18 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
Mary Offield | 6 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
Samuel Wooding | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Berridge | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Samuel Green | 17 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Harriett Seater | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Bradley | 8 | 0 | Infirm from age | no. |
Richard Gadsby | 13 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
Richard Walker | 20 | 0 | Infirm from age | no. |
William Brown | 15 | 0 | Blind | no. |
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