Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Toxteth Park Parish, Lancashire, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Clarkson | 10 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
| James Aylward | 9 | 0 | Too old to work | no. |
| Robert Andrews | 6 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| John Faulkner | 13 | 0 | Rheumatism | no. |
| Michael Murray | 6 | 0 | Asthma | no. |
| Archibald Blair | 7 | 0 | Rheumatism | no. |
| Richard Edwards | 8 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
| John Shaw | 9 | 0 | Weakness of limbs | no. |
| James Platt | 16 | 0 | Injury to hand | no. |
| James McGreary | 6 | 0 | Asthma | no. |
| Hugh Glass | 5 | 0 | Rheumatic pains | no. |
| James Davis | 5 | 0 | Idiocy | no. |
| Sarah O'Neil | 5 | 0 | Subject to fits | no. |
| Elizabeth Sinclair | 6 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| Elizabeth Tomkinson | 8 | 0 | Insufficient earnings | no. |
| Mary Patterson | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| William Pugh | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Fanny Bradly | 6 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| Sarah Jones | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Duckworth | 8 | 0 | Ill health and old age | no. |
| Elizabeth Pritchard | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Margaret Murray | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Rainer | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Wilson | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Birnie | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Isabella Harrison | 15 | 0 | Idiocy | no. |
| Elizabeth Scott | 15 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Catherine Roberts | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Jane Evans | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Thomas | 9 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
| Sarah McCarty | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Catherine Smith | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
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