Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Stratford-on-Avon Union, Warwickshire, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Rebecca Cowley | 24 | 0 | An idiot from birth | no. |
William Cowley | 24 | 0 | ditto | workh. school. |
Ann Reeves | 24 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Lucy Freeman | 24 | 0 | ditto | workh. school. |
Harriet Maunton | 24 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Ball | 24 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Hill | 10 | 0 | An habitual drunkard | no. |
Henry Court | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Aubury | 8 | 0 | Wholly infirm | no. |
Elizabeth Rogers | 8 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
William Gibbs | 6 | 0 | An idiot from birth | no. |
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