Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Gloucester Union, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Holder | 12 | 0 | Insanity | no. |
| Henry Davis | 6 | 0 | One arm | yes. |
| John Bailey | 13 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| John Faville | 10 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Eliza Clarke | 7 | 0 | Insanity | no. |
| Esther Bundy | 8 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| George Jones | 15 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Eliza Dew | 9 | 0 | Deafness | no. |
| George Teagle | 7 | 0 | Fits | no. |
| Mary Ann Stafford | 10 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
| Elizabeth Greenaway | From birth | Imbecile | no. | |
| William Lewis | 10 | 0 | Bad legs | no. |
| John Harding | 9 | 0 | Syphilis | no. |
| Sarah Watts | 15 | 0 | Lunatic | no. |
| Joseph Dyke | 8 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
| Ann Dyke | 8 | 0 | Lunatic | no. |
| Joseph Muston | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Ann Hewitt | 10 | 0 | Lunatic | no. |
| Daniel Perkins | 8 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Ellen Griffiths | 10 | 0 | Lunatic | no. |
| Mary Bennett | 9 | 0 | Lunacy | no. |
| John Maston | 8 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
| James Harding | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| John Moore | 9 | 0 | Blind | no. |
| Mary Griffiths | 10 | 0 | Lunatic | no. |
| Eliza Collier | 10 | 0 | Lunacy | no. |
| Ann Roberts | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Mary Ann Workman | 10 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
| Fanny Hicks | 10 | 0 | Lunacy | no. |
| Mary Williams | 8 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Edward Phillips | 9 | 0 | Lameness | no. |
| Edward Bundley | 10 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
| James Draysey | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
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