Below is an index of individuals who received assistance from the Bridport Poor Law Union in the 1850s, extracted from the following source:

BG/BT/A/1/6  – Minutes of the Bridport Union Board of Guardians (Dorset History Centre): lists of able-bodied individuals who received relief, usually because of their own or their families’ illness. Sometimes relief was given for funeral expenses. So far only entries for 1857 have been indexed. The abbreviations ‘C.F.’, ‘C. Fund’ and ‘C.C.’ refer to the union’s Common Fund or Common Charge, meaning that the cost of relief was not allocated to one particular parish. The reference (in the final column) includes the date of the guardians’ meeting and the page number of the minute book.