Long-term Workhouse Inmates in West Bromwich Union, Staffordshire, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Hand | 6 | 0 | Accident, causing paralysis in legs | no. |
| Henry Pountney | 15 | 0 | Nearly blind | no. |
| James Worton | 5 | 6 | Rheumatism and asthma | no. |
| Joseph Souter | 9 | 0 | General debility | no. |
| James Hanley | 5 | 6 | Subject to fits | no. |
| John Brittain | 5 | 9 | Asthma and paralysis | no. |
| Thomas Osborne | 5 | 6 | Paralysis | no. |
| Thomas Bowyer | 5 | 9 | ditto | no. |
| John Willetts | 6 | 0 | Bad legs | no. |
| John Hawkins | 9 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
| John Kennaugh | 7 | 0 | Bad legs | no. |
| Thomas Hackett | 6 | 9 | Accident in coal pit | no. |
| Charles Porter | 6 | 6 | Asthma | no. |
| Timothy Whitehouse | 9 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
| Mary Ann Dace | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Esther Dace | 7 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Hardman | 7 | 6 | Crippled from broken leg | no. |
| Elizabeth Rogers | 9 | 0 | Rheumatism | no. |
| Susannah Spooner | 40 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
| Emma Capewell | 5 | 3 | ditto | no. |
| Phoebe Billingham | 20 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Fanny Smith | 8 | 0 | Blind | no. |
| Rebecca Cuttler | 9 | 6 | ditto | no. |
| Francis Upton | 9 | 0 | Nearly blind | no. |
| Lucy Green | 6 | 6 | General debility from an irregular life | no. |
| Sarah Hadley | 5 | 6 | Weak mind | no. |
| Mary Vine | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Martha Hodgetts | 43 | 0 | General debility from an irregular life | no. |
| Lydia Bragg | 5 | 3 | Old age | no. |
| Lavinia Bone | 8 | 6 | Paralysis | no. |
| Betty Price | 8 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
| Hannah Fisher | 33 | 0 | General debility from an irregular life | no. |
| Harriet Paddock | 8 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
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