Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Staines Union, Middlesex, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Robert Smith | 9 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Richard Rosewell | 13 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Brown | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Lay | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Wells | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
James Kemp | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Satfrill | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Samuel Lush | 18 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Richard Pearce | 7 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Richard Constable | 5 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
George Neal | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Thomas Pye | 18 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
William Bennett | 6 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Jeremiah Hobbs | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Thomas Holdship | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Bromley | 19 | 0 | ditto | no. |
George Monday | 7 | 0 | Rheumatism | no. |
Joseph Brother | 6 | 0 | Bad arm | no. |
Ralph Preston | 6 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
Mary Parker | 30 | 0 | Not known | no. |
Mary Cooper | 5 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Caroline Jacobs | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Eliza West | 20 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Mary Ann Taylor | 9 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Margarett Hayes | 25 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Martha Busby | 7 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Ann Cobb | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Martha Best | 14 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Sophia Penny | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
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