Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Wakefield Union, West Riding of Yorkshire, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Laycock | 12 | 0 | Order of Board | no. |
| Henrietta Stephenson | 34 | 0 | Destitute and blind | no. |
| Mary Wilson | 10 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| Mary Wormald | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Furbisher | 8 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
| Mary Stead | 10 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| Henry Mitchell | 12 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Burton | 10 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
| Jane Haukeswell | 8 | 0 | Subject to fits | no. |
| Eliza Winter | 8 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
| Mary Jane Hirst | 5 | 0 | ditto | workh. school. |
| George Clayton | 6 | 6 | Orphan | workh. school. |
| John Mortimer | 10 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| George Hargreaves | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Eliza Scarf | 10 | 0 | Idiot; deaf and dumb | no. |
| John Booth | 7 | 0 | Old age, and unable to work | no. |
| Sarah Booth | 7 | 0 | Came in with John Booth | workh. school. |
| Eliza Booth | 7 | 0 | ditto | workh. school. |
| John Sherwin | 9 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Sarah Varley | 7 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| Catherine Downs | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Sarah Lancaster | 10 | 0 | Destitute | workh. school. |
| Sarah Martin, alias Connor | 8 | 0 | Orphan | workh. school. |
| Robert Farrar | 6 | 0 | Destitute | workh. school. |
| William Farrar | 6 | 0 | ditto | workh. school. |
| Benjamin Milthorpe | 6 | 0 | Sickness | no. |
| Esther Myers | 9 | 0 | Destitute | no. |
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