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No. in Admissions Register: 443
Age: 13
Whence received: Stafford Gaol
Description:
Complexion: Fresh
Hair colour: Brown
Eyes colour: Brown
Visage: -
Particular marks: -
State of health: Good
Able-bodied? Yes
Date of admission and term: 19 April 1871 4 years
Late residence: Stafford
Parish he belongs to: Stafford
Customary work and mode of life: Errand boy
Whether illegitimate: No
State of education:
Reads: Imperfectly
Writes: Imperfectly
Offence: Stealing money to the sum of 2s
Circumstances which may have led to it: -
Date of sentence, by who and court: 20 March 1871, Stafford Petty Sessions, H Gillard, J Talbot, and W Burton
Where imprisoned: Stafford
Sentence: 1 month prison (hard labour), 4 years at Saltley
Previous committals:
Number: Two
Length: 7 days
For what: Stealing a cap; malicious damage
Father's name: James Emberton
Occupation: Shoemaker
Mother's name: Mary Ann Emberton
Occupation: -
Parents dead? -
Survivor married again? -
Parents' treatment of child: Good
Character of parents Honest and sober, not very good health
Parents' wages: 12s per week
Amount parents agree to pay: Not able to pay anything, has 5 children
Parents address: 2 Water Street, Stafford
Superintendent of police (to collect payments):     -
Person making this return: T Summerfield, Stafford Gaol
When and how left reformatory: 18 Apr 1975 - released at expiration of sentence


Notes:

12 February 1870 A previous offence was reported in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 12 February 1870 p.7 col.4: JUVENILE OFFENDERS. -Two boys, named Thomas Lowndes, aged 13, and James Emberton, aged 11, pleaded guilty to stealing two cloth caps, the property of John Averill and Joseph Spilsbury, at the parish of Castle Church. Lowndes was sentenced to be imprisoned for one month with hard labour, and afterwards sent to reformatory for four years, his mother being ordered to pay 6d. week towards his maintenance. Emberton was ordered to be whipped. [Lowndes was sent to Saltey, boy 426]
 
26 March 1870 There is a report of another previous offence in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 26 March 1870 p.7 col.1: CHARGE OF WILFUL DAMAGE.-Berjamin Varley, Henry Millwood, Arthur Harris, and James Emberton, boys, were severally charged with unlawfully damaging a number of the palisades near the Stafford Railway Station, which are the property of the London and North-Western Railway Company, Mr. Edward Thomas Burr, solicitor, appeared in support of the information. The defendants pleaded guilty. Mr Burr said that the tops of about 104 palisades had been broken off by boys in a spirit of wanton mischief, and the object of the company to obtain a conviction which might be made known and act as a warning to others. The Magistrates said the practice must be stopped, and ordered each boy to pay 10s, the amount of the damage, a fine of 10s. in addition, and 4s 6d costs. In default they would be sent to prison lor one month.
 
31 May 1874 There is a letter relating to his release on licence, from the North Staffordshire Discharged Prisoners Aid Society: Dear Sir, please send a specimen of Emberton'e work in printing.to Mr Gee, house decorator, Stafford, who is willing to take him, if satisfied, as an apprentice. I can take him at once. Yours [illegible word], William Sinclair(?)
 
20 June 1874 Licensed to work for Mr Gee, house decorator, Stafford
 
19 February 1875 Recalled and readmitted, having left Mr Gee's service and not reported himself but hid himself away.
 
18 April 1875 Returned to parents on expiration of term
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