Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Preston 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 |
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Priscilla Proffitt | many years | Disease of spine | unknown. | |
Ellen Lucas | ditto | Deaf and dumb | unknown. | |
Mary Thompson | 10 | 0 | Old age | unknown. |
Margaret Bramwell | 10 | 0 | ditto | unknown. |
Mary Cochrane | 8 | 0 | ditto | unknown. |
Mary Ann Welsh | 6 | 0 | Fits | unknown. |
Elizabeth Metcalf | 6 | 0 | Disease of spine | unknown. |
Mary Heaps | 5 | 0 | Old age | unknown. |
Ann Gardner | 11 | 0 | ditto | unknown. |
Martha Bolton | 6 | 0 | ditto | unknown. |
Jane Henethy | 5 | 0 | Nearly blind | unknown. |
Mary Whitehead | 7 | 0 | Old age | unknown. |
Jane Hunter | 5 | 0 | ditto | unknown. |
Susannah Cooper | 6 | 0 | Paralysis | unknown. |
Betty Hamber | many years | Lunacy | unknown. | |
Winifred Dickinson | ditto | Lame | unknown. | |
Ellen Hall | ditto | Lunacy | unknown. | |
Sarah Monsley | ditto | Old age | unknown. | |
Jane Nightingale | ditto | Lunacy | unknown. | |
Eliza Brewer | 5 | 0 | Paralysis | unknown. |
Thomas Ashcroft | 9 | 0 | Old and infirm | unknown. |
Elias Graham | 7 | 0 | ditto | unknown. |
Thomas Hibbert | 5 | 0 | Old age | unknown. |
John Rigby | 7 | 0 | ditto | unknown. |
Edward Crompton | many years | Lunacy | unknown. | |
John Walmsley | not stated | Lame | unknown. | |
John Brewer | ditto | Old age | unknown. | |
William Andrews | ditto | Nearly blind | unknown. | |
Robert Hardacre | 11 | 3 | Lame in his hip | unknown. |
James Brown | 6 | 6 | Lame in his arm | unknown. |
Thomas Winder | 6 | 0 | Ruptured | unknown. |
Mary Anne Doyle | 7 | 0 | Bad leg | unknown. |
John Gemson | 5 and upwards | Infirm | unknown. | |
John Eccleston | ditto | ditto | unknown. | |
Christopher Tuer | ditto | ditto | unknown. | |
Ellen Tuer | ditto | ditto | unknown. | |
William Jackson | ditto | ditto | unknown. | |
Catherine Jackson | ditto | ditto | unknown. | |
James Swarbrick | ditto | ditto | unknown. | |
John Green | ditto | ditto | unknown. | |
James Naylor | ditto | ditto | unknown. | |
John Smith | ditto | ditto | unknown. | |
Ellen Gornull | ditto | ditto | unknown. | |
Richard Hodgkinson | ditto | ditto | unknown. | |
John Booth | ditto | ditto | unknown. | |
Robert Hill | ditto | ditto | unknown. | |
William Bradley | ditto | Infirm | unknown. | |
Betty Bradley | ditto | ditto | unknown. | |
John Ashworth | ditto | ditto | unknown. | |
James Porter | ditto | ditto | unknown. | |
John Slater | ditto | ditto | unknown. | |
Joseph Haythornthwaite | ditto | ditto | unknown. | |
Thomas Seed | ditto | Cripple when born | unknown. | |
William Dickinson | ditto | Infirm | unknown. | |
Henry Hodgkinson | ditto | Idiot from birth | unknown. | |
Thomas Carter | ditto | Infirm | unknown. | |
William Gregson | ditto | ditto | unknown. | |
William Layfield | ditto | ditto | unknown. | |
Thomas Greenwood | ditto | ditto | unknown. | |
Frederick Chapman | 13 | 0 | Infirm and destitute | unknown. |
Jane Benson | 11 | 0 | ditto | unknown. |
Hannah Moss | 9 | 0 | ditto | unknown. |
James Hewitson | 12 | 0 | Idiot | unknown. |
James Yates | 12 | 0 | Cripple | unknown. |
William Fisher | 12 | 0 | Old and infirm | unknown. |
John Thistleton | 12 | 0 | ditto | unknown. |
Joseph Leeming | 10 | 0 | Subject to fits | unknown. |
Henry Cowburn | 10 | 0 | Old and infirm | unknown. |
Henry Hindle | 10 | 0 | Idiot | unknown. |
John Tindall | 9 | 0 | Weak intellect | unknown. |
Lawrence Turner | 9 | 0 | Cripple | unknown. |
Joseph Clarkson | 9 | 0 | ditto | unknown. |
Thomas Dugdale | 9 | 0 | Idiot | unknown. |
Henry Addison | 8 | 0 | Lunatic | unknown. |
Henry Walker | 8 | 0 | Old and infirm | unknown. |
Vincent Smith | 8 | 0 | Bad health | unknown. |
Edward Towers | 8 | 0 | Lunatic | unknown. |
William Heaps | 7 | 0 | Old and infirm | unknown. |
John Moor | 7 | 0 | Idiot | unknown. |
Leonard Simpson | 7 | 0 | Old and infirm | unknown. |
John Hilton | 6 | 0 | Cripple | unknown. |
Henry Farnworth | 6 | 0 | Idiot | unknown. |
William Stephenson | 5 | 0 | Old and infirm | unknown. |
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