William Wilson - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
Image by permission of the Library of Birmingham. MS 244/6/2.
| No. in Admissions Register: | 1250 |
| Age: | 15 (born 17 January 1885) |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Assizes |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Sallow |
| Hair colour: | Dark |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| Height: | 5 ft 3ΒΌ ins |
| Particular marks: | 4 vacc. marks recent, left arm; flag and flagstaff right arm, dots and letter L; anchor left arm, clasped hands with device and words True Love |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 17 December 1900 |
| Late residence: | John Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | - |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Loafing round New Street Station |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly, Standard 3 |
| Writes: | Imperfectly, Standard 3 |
| Offence: | Throwing iron horse shoes at a railway train |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Seems an idle worthless fellow |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 10 December 1900; Sir J Compton Lawrence; Birmingham Assizes |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 8 |
| Length: | Imprisonment in all cases |
| For what: | Refusing to quit station, obstruction, street footballing, gambling, stone throwing |
| Father's name: | James Wilson |
| Occupation: | Painter |
| Mother's name: | Martha Wilson |
| Occupation: | Housewife |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Not stated |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Parents address: | John Street, Birmingham |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Chief Constable, Birmingham |
| Person making this return: | W Wingfield |
| Notes: | |
| 7 May 1903 Discharged from Saltley by Order of the Home Secretary, on account of emigrating to Canada along with Little [boy 1238]. Left Liverpool aboard the SS Tunisian for Richmond, Quebec. A letter was subsequently received from Mr Gold [the School agent in Canada] advising of their safe arrival and particulars of their employment and postal addresses | |
| 10 June 1903 The Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Wilson, Melbourne, Quebec | |
| 8 December 1903 The Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Wilson, Canada | |