Workhouse Records, County Wexford, Ireland - 1861
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Contributed by Mary Heaphy
Contributed by Mary Heaphy
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WEXFORD INDEPENDENT, DATED 31st JULY 1861.
Workhouse Records.
The weekly meeting of the Guardians was held on Saturday last.
Chair was taken by Colonel HATTON, J.P.

ADMISSIONS.*
ARMSTRONG, Margaret, 17, Wexford.
CONLON, Michael, 27, Union.
CONNORS, James, 66, Union.
CULLEN, Laurence, 18, Wexford.
DOBSON, Ellen, 40, Wexford.
DOBSON, William, 1. Wexford.
KAVANAGH, John, 40, Wexford.
KEATING, Mary, 70, Wexford.
MURPHY, Margaret, 24, Ardcavan.
MURPHY, Margaret, 3 months, Ardcavan.
QUIRK, John, 67, Drinagh.
ROCHE, Catherine, 40, Ardcolm.
ROCHE, Catherine, 6, Ardcolm.
RYAN, Ellen, 60, Kilscoran.

OUTDOOR RELIEF.
The number of recipients was 17, the amount given
�2.5.0. A farmer applied for and selected a servant, a
young girl named Ellen KENSELLAH, chargeable on
Duncormick Electoral Division. On the girl coming before
the Board to sanction her going from the house and
obtain the usual outfit, in reply to the Chairman, she
said she could neither read or write. The Chairman very
properly drew attention to the statement, astonished at
what he had just heard. The girl said she had been
brought up in the House and was nearly 17 years of age.
The Chairman called on the Master of the house and the
Schoolmistress. The Master said the girl, being 15 years
old, demanded her right to be put among the adults, and
he by the rules was bound to do so. The Schoolmistress
said the girl had attended school regularly, but was a
very dull pupil. She could read and write when leaving
the school. She produced her last copy-book. How she
could have forgotten all so soon, she could not account
for.




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