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No. in Admissions Register: 298
Date of admission: 10 April 1865
Whence received: Stafford
By whom brought: -
On what terms: -
Friends interested in him: -
Description:
Height: -
Figure: -
Complexion: Fresh
Hair colour: Light brown
Eyes colour: Grey
Perfect vision? Yes
State of health: Good
Able-bodied? Yes
Sound intellect? Yes
Use of all limbs? Yes
Had cow or small pox? Cowpox
Particular marks: Burn on breast and cut on each temple
Cutaneous disorder? No
Scrofulous or consumptive? Not apparent
Subject to fits? No
Age last birthday: 13
Illegitimate? -
Birthday: -
Birth place: -
Has resided: Sedgley
Parish he belongs to: Sedgley
Customary work and mode of life: Helping iron rollers
Schools attended: -
By whom and where employed: -
State of education:
Reads: Not at all
Writes: Not at all
Cyphers: -
General ability: -
Offence: Stealing 2s from a drawer
Circumstances which may have led to it: The lock out
Date of sentence: 27 March 1865
Where convicted: Willenhall before Rev G H Fisher and R D Gough
Who prosecuted: -
Where imprisoned: -
Sentence: 14 days, 5 years at Saltley
Previous committals and convictions: None
Father's name: Solomon Faulk
Occupation: Iron worker
Residence: Cinder Hill, Sedgley, Staffordshire
Mother's name: Ann Faulk
Occupation: -
Residence: -
Father's character: Honest, but given to drink
Mother's character: -
Parents dead? No
Survivor married again? -
Parents' treatment of child: Good
Character of parents Honest and in good health, but very poor
Parents' wages: Can earn 20s a week when in work
Amount parents agree to pay: Ought to pay at least 1s a week
Superintendent of police (to collect payments):      Hugh McCrea, Bilston
Relatives to communicate with: -
Person making this return: -
Estimate of character on admission: -
Character on discharge: -
When and how left the Reformatory: 9 Apr 1870 - Discharged at conclusion of sentence


Notes:

29 March 1865 There is a short report of the crime in the Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Gazette Wednesday 29 March 1865 p.7 col.3: COMMITTAL TO A REFORMATORY.- At the Police Court, on Monday, before the Rev. G. H. Fisher and R. D. Gough, Esq., a lad named Faulkner [surname given as thus], about thirteen years of age, was charged with having stolen the sum of 2s belonging to James Francis, shopkeeper, Lower Lichfield-street. It seems that the prosecutor caught the lad just as he had taken a two-shilling piece from the shop till; he at once confessed his guilt, and asked to be forgiven, but a policeman was sent for, and he was given into custody. From what was stated to the Bench they decided to commit him to prison for the offence, for the space of fourteen days, and afterwards to be sent to a reformatory school for three years.
 
14 January 1869 Licensed
 
9 April 1870 Discharged
 
January 1871 Heard of doing well
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