Reason I asked about The Workhouses was this
William ELLSMORE U 70 M Inmate Imbecile W Dean, Gloucester, England

1881 Census: Residents of WLS10484"Monmouth Workhouse" Hereford RoadMonmouth, Monmouth, Wales
Any clues who he was
Have just read up on the link http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Monmouth/Monmouth.shtml omg those poor people the conditions they had to survive in them, I will never complain about how hard done by i may have had it ever again.