Long-term Workhouse Inmates in St Thomas Union, Devon, 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 Cade | 6 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
Ann Kennicott | 5 | 0 | Sickness | no. |
John Dingle | 8 | 6 | Age and infirmity | no. |
Richard Milford | 7 | 6 | Imbecile | no. |
Reuben Lamacraft | 5 | 6 | Age and epilepsy | no. |
Ann Please | 23 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Henry Dawe | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Collins | 24 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Eliza Ford | 11 | 6 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Jarman | 5 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
Sarah Gillett | 7 | 6 | Age and infirmity | no. |
George Emmett | 11 | 6 | Weak intellect | no. |
Mary Harding | 5 | 0 | Sickness | no. |
William Martial | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Addison | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Martha Bodley | 6 | 6 | Weak intellect | no. |
Mary Harwood | 5 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
Elizabeth Farrant | 9 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Charity Ware | 5 | 0 | Age and infirmity | no. |
James Coplestone | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Ellen Holding | 5 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Michael Davey | 7 | 6 | Sickness | no. |
Elizabeth O'Brien | 5 | 6 | Old age | no. |
Mary Brown | 5 | 6 | Infirmity | no. |
Mary Hellier | 7 | 6 | Age and infirmity | no. |
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