Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Stow-on-the-Wold 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jane Waring | 24 | 0 | Weak intellect, and having illegitimate children | no. |
| William Teal | 14 | 0 | Infirmities of age | no. |
| John Harris | 5 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| Thomas Davis | 9 | 0 | Cripple | no. |
| Cornelius Fido | 15 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Sarah Leach | 13 | 0 | Weak intellect | no. |
| Thomas Jones | 6 | 0 | Old age, and lameness of wife | no. |
| Ann Jones | 6 | 0 | Old age and lame | no. |
| Charles James | 12 | 0 | Weak intellect, and deformed | no. |
| Jesse Hathaway | 20 | 0 | Idiot | no. |
| James Spencer | 14 | 0 | Old age, and infirmities | workhouse. |
| Joseph Haynes | 8 | 0 | Old age, and a great dislike to work | no. |
| Elizabeth Clark | 12 | 0 | Old age | no. |
| Thomas Townsend | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
| John Dowman | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
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