Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Stockport Union, Cheshire, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah Jackson | 20 | 0 | Deaf and dumb | no. |
| Richard Ashton | 10 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| Philip Naughton | 5 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
| Nathan Sutton | 10 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| Lucy Smith | 6 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
| Thomas Glue | 5 | 0 | Epilepsy | no. |
| Sarah Hadfield | 5 | 5 | Idiot | no. |
| Rebecca Leyland | 8 | 6 | Lunacy | no. |
| Amy Chandley | 7 | 3 | Blindness | no. |
| Robert Johnson | 20 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
| William Golburt | 11 | 3 | ditto | no. |
| Joseph Sharples | 11 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Mottrant | 8 | 5 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
| James Knott | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Holt | 6 | 6 | Idiotic | no. |
| George Bradley | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Hill | 8 | 2 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Goodwin | 11 | 3 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Farmer | 5 | 0 | Epilepsy | no. |
| Hannah Smith | 10 | 0 | Palsy | no. |
| Joseph Rowcroft | 8 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
| Harriet Booth | 6 | 0 | Epilepsy | no. |
| Samuel Wharmby | 6 | 0 | Old age, &c. | no. |
| Charles Lain | 17 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
| Joseph Bancroft | 16 | 0 | Old age and sickness | no. |
| Elizabeth Swindlehurst | 6 | 4 | Epilepsy | no. |
| Dinah Pearson | 12 | 0 | Old age, &c. | no. |
| William Bailey | 10 | 0 | Asthmatic | no. |
| John Knight | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| George Rawlinson | 5 | 10 | Old age and sickness | no. |
| Emma Brown | 5 | 3 | Palsy | no. |
| Charlotte Jones | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Jackson | 8 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Ralph Booth | 9 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
| Hannah Wood | 11 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
| Esther Acton | 7 | 5 | Epilepsy | no. |
| Aaron Barlow | 5 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
| Robert Reeves | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Rowland | 7 | 4 | Old age | no. |
| Mary Smith | 6 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
| Esther Smith | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Taylor | 5 | 6 | Epilepsy | no. |
| Henry Watson | 10 | 0 | Idiotcy | no. |
| William Watson | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Craven | 8 | 3 | Palsy | no. |
| Joseph Furness | 10 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Ann Bowden | 9 | 5 | Idiotcy | no. |
| Ann Gratrix | 8 | 10 | Bad legs | no. |
| Ann Camomile | 7 | 8 | Epilepsy | no. |
| Grace Skelton | 5 | 7 | Rheumatic | no. |
| Alice Gilmore | 5 | 7 | Old age | no. |
| Mary Whitelegg | 5 | 2 | Idiotcy | no. |
| John Shore Walker | 6 | 4 | Fistula | no. |
| Wright Beeley | 5 | 0 | Idiotcy | no. |
| James Singleton | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Shard | 6 | 0 | Rheumatic | no. |
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