Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Worcester Union, Worcestershire, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Esther Heywood | 12 | 0 | Idiocy. | no. |
| Sarah Nixon | 10 | 0 | Diseased spine | yes. |
| John Rushton | 12 | 0 | Fractured leg. | no. |
| Mary Ann Smith | 7 | 0 | Orphan | yes. |
| James Smith | 7 | 0 | ditto | yes. |
| George Westbury | 7 | 0 | Old and Infirm | no. |
| Henry Woollett | 5 | 0 | Father dead and deserted by mother. | yes. |
| Emma Woollett | 5 | 0 | ditto | yes. |
| Thomas Griffiths | 6 | 0 | Orphan | yes. |
| Sarah Palmer | 23 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| Mary Wathen | 6 | 0 | Old and infirm | no. |
| Harriett Bayliss | 16 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Charlotte Griffiths | 7 | 0 | Orphan | yes. |
| Susan Hope | 14 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Elizabeth Jones | 17 | 0 | Weak sight and illness | no. |
| Ann Smith | 16 | 0 | Illness | no. |
| Henry Mayne | 13 | 0 | Bad rupture which prevents his working. | no. |
| Hannah Mable | 18 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Joseph Powell | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Samuel Osborn | 8 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
| Joseph Griffiths | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Powell | 16 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| James Bishop | 15 | 0 | Dwarf | yes. |
| Samuel Fuller | 18 | 0 | Weak sight | no. |
| Harriett Harper | 15 | 0 | Bad sight | no. |
| Joseph Powney | 16 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
| Mary Powney | 16 | 0 | Idiocy | no. |
| Thomas Strain | 13 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
| Clara Swift | 9 | 0 | Orphan | yes. |
| Elizabeth Walton | 22 | 0 | Idiocy | no. |
| Philimon Good | 6 | 0 | Orphan | no. |
| Mary Crook | 12 | 0 | Scarcity of work | no. |
| Matthew Dark | 9 | 0 | Deserted | yes. |
| Richard Dee | 8 | 0 | Illness | yes. |
| John Edgington | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Ann Gallagher | 12 | 0 | Destitution and old age | no. |
| William Prince | 7 | 0 | Destitution | no. |
| Walter Prince | 7 | 0 | With father | yes. |
| Elizabeth Palmer | 13 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
| Hannah Hawell | 10 | 0 | Illness | no. |
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