Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Warwick 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ann Shepherd | 22 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
William Denzy | 6 | 0 | Asthmatic and very infirm | no. |
William Matthews | 5 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Patience Freeman | 7 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
Henry Weathersby | 9 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Catherine Connell | 6 | 0 | Idiotic and paralysed | no. |
Richard Neal | 10 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Joseph Taylor | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Smith | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Hill | 6 | 0 | Unsound mind | no. |
Martha Lee | 6 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
William Masters | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Davies | 7 | 0 | Deaf and dumb | no. |
William Webb | 5 | 0 | Debility | no. |
Joseph Davies | 22 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
William Dowles | 15 | 0 | Paralysed | no. |
Emma Evans | 10 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Mary Wilkins | 13 | 0 | Deaf and dumb | no. |
Benjamin Cult | 6 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
William Sabin | 8 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Austin Filcher | 6 | 0 | Debility | no. |
Sarah Shepherd | 20 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
Margaret Satchell | 5 | 0 | Bedridden | no. |
John Jackson | 6 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Lucy Nicks | 8 | 0 | General debility | no. |
Harriet Holland | 16 | 0 | Deaf and dumb | no. |
Alice Bolton | 12 | 0 | Debility | no. |
Henry Ward | 14 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
Joseph Nutt | 13 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Joseph Briggs | 15 | 0 | Bad sight | no. |
William Shellam | 10 | 0 | Old age | no. |
George Grubb | 15 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
John Terrell | 10 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
John Parsons | 12 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
Elizabeth Hyams | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Charlotte Gossick | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Terrell | 6 | 0 | Decayed tradesman | no. |
William Hemming | 7 | 0 | General debility | no. |
Frederick Bowyer | 22 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
Robert Barlow | 9 | 0 | Lameness | no. |
Susan Oldhams | 9 | 0 | A woman of lost character | no. |
Elizabeth Joyce | 6 | 0 | Unsound mind | no. |
John Adey | 6 | 0 | Illness | no. |
William Rose | 14 | 0 | Infirmity | no. |
John Jackson | 10 | 0 | Debility | no. |
Priscilla Smallwood | 12 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
Mary Bragg | 6 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
William Goddard | 9 | 0 | Infirm | no. |
William Bartlam | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
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