Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Stourbridge Union, Worcestershire, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abraham Wood | 14 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| Thomas Sideway | 12 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
| Francis Keeling | 12 | 0 | Illness, and bad sight | no. |
| James Cumming | 6 | 0 | Infirmity and old age | no. |
| John Welsh | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Edwin Richards | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Bennett | 17 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Boxley | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Edward Newton | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Wall | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Peter Pardoe | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Wooldridge | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Joseph Thorns | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Henry Bache | 6 | 0 | Fits | no. |
| John Lawley | 6 | 0 | Lameness | no. |
| William Perry | 16 | 0 | Infirmity and bad sight | no. |
| Joseph Gadd | 11 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| John Gardener | 12 | 0 | Infirmity and old age | no. |
| Benjamin Perry | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| George Woodhouse | 5 | 0 | Lameness | no. |
| Joseph Harris | 5 | 0 | Dropsy | no. |
| John Willetts | 8 | 0 | Lameness | no. |
| Joseph Tibbetts | 7 | 0 | Bad eyes and weakness | no. |
| Thomas Drew | 5 | 0 | Bad eyes | no. |
| Richard Howes | 12 | 0 | Disease of heart | no. |
| John Heathcote | 12 | 0 | Infirmity and old age | no. |
| William Tew | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Cooke | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Hazelwood | 15 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| Joseph Southall | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Woodhouse | 5 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| Hannah Field | 8 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| Elizabeth Dancer | 6 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
| Catherine Pew | 8 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| Elizabeth Homer | 10 | 0 | Imbecility | no. |
| Mary Kilcoyne | 5 | 0 | Unable to support three children | no. |
| Ann Skielding | 15 | 0 | Disease of brain | no. |
| Sarah Thatcher | 8 | 0 | Weakness of mind | no. |
| Ann Homer | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Timmings | 10 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| Phoebe Drew | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Maria Walker | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sabra Griffin | 5 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Ann Freeman | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Jones | 11 | 0 | Infirmity and age | no. |
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