My GGGF was in the Southwell Union Workhouse in 1878 .
This report in the Nottinghamshire Guardian when he was charged with gross insubordination .
SOUTHWELL PETTY SESSIONS.
FRIDAY.-(Before Major Becher)
INSUBORDINATE PAUPERS. - Joseph Thraves, 41. William Bucklow. 70, and John Wilson, 69, three inmates of the Southwell Union Workhouse, were brought up charged with insubordination.
William Shacklock, Master of the Workhouse said the defendants, who were inmates, were set to work in the garden, but on the previous day they refused to work until half past