Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Samford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Simpson | 55 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| Mary Clarke | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Martha Welham | 12 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
| Mary Sharman | 32 | 0 | Mental affection | no. |
| Lucy Cooper | 14 | 0 | Idiotcy | no. |
| William Chapman | 40 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| John Warren | 8 | 0 | Idiotcy | no. |
| John Stopher | 22 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Robert Whinney | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Samuel Ratcliff | 11 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
| Henry Grimwood | 7 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| Samuel Grimwood | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Samuel Beales | 36 | 0 | Dumbness and deafness | no. |
| Ann Beales | 36 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Eliza Sharman | 8 | 0 | Defective intellect | no. |
| George Norman | 8 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
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