Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Axbridge Union, Somerset, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah Bailey | 20 | 0 | Idiotic | no. |
| Maria Andrews | 18 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Eliza Coles | 19 | 0 | Paralysed and dumb | no. |
| Jane Maine | from infancy | Idiot | no. | |
| Sarah Hill | 17 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Eliza Fisher | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Louisa Goodgroome | from birth | Diseased and lame | workh. school. | |
| James Rogers | 19 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Robert Vaughn | 20 | 0 | Idiot, subject to fits | workh. school. |
| Walter Coles | 21 | 6 | Blind | no. |
| William Durston | 5 | 6 | Idiot | no. |
| John Vowles | 15 | 0 | Old age | not known. |
| Job Dymock | 19 | 6 | Idiot | not known. |
| Charles Mitchell | 9 | 0 | Infirm, from age | no. |
| William Day | 7 | 0 | Subject to fits | no. |
| Robert Fry | 6 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
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