Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Watford Union, Hertfordshire, 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Edward Groom | 12 | 0 | Aged and infirm | no. |
William Peacock | 6 | 11 | ditto | no. |
Mary Woodward | 9 | 10 | ditto | no. |
Elizabeth Norman | 6 | 8 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Smith | 11 | 9 | ditto | no. |
Sophia Hiorns | 12 | 5 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Hill | 8 | 11 | ditto | no. |
Charlotte Bowles | 5 | 2 | ditto | no. |
William Catlin | 10 | 0 | Insane, returned incurable from Beds. Asylum | no. |
John Martindale | 7 | 7 | Aged and infirm | no. |
Ann Kempster | 12 | 5 | Idiot | no. |
Sarah Baldwin | 12 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Hannah Young | 5 | 4 | Aged and infirm | no. |
Ann Walker | 12 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
Mary Ann Rowe | 7 | 4 | Fits | no. |
Samuel Suddrick | 5 | 0 | Epileptic fits | no. |
John Davis | 12 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
George Crawley | 14 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
Sarah Neville | 12 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
Joseph Barnes | 5 | 11 | Aged and infirm | no. |
Mary Ann Bolton | 10 | 0 | Insanity | no. |
Edward Wilmot | 13 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
Thomas Rowbottom | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
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