Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Bristol Incorporation (St Peter's Hospital), Gloucestershire, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Booth | 6 | 0 | Subject to fits | no. |
| Thomas Dawes | 23 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
| John Green | 10 | 0 | Deafness and old age | no. |
| Robert Humphries | 34 | 0 | Impaired mind | no. |
| David Jones | 5 | 3 | Blindness and age | no. |
| Richard Simmons | 6 | 10 | Paralysis | no. |
| Edward Smyth | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Thomas Pearcy | 14 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
| John Williams | 14 | 0 | Deafness and dislocation of hip bone | no. |
| John Watts | 30 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
| Ann Brooks | 18 | 0 | Deaf and subject to fits | no. |
| Mary Chilcott | 19 | 0 | A widow and unable | no. |
| Ann Crute | 6 | 0 | General debility | no. |
| Hannah Henesley | 46 | 0 | Impaired mind | no. |
| Hannah Masters | 26 | 0 | Dislocation of hip | no. |
| Ann Perry | 5 | 0 | Impaired mind | no. |
| Eve Roberts | 23 | 0 | Deaf and dumb | no. |
| Phoebe Shepstone | 30 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Mary Perkins | 16 | 0 | Diseased hip | no. |
| Eliza West | 16 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
| Mary Ann Watts | 6 | 0 | Lame | no. |
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