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Robert Edmond Blair - Saltley Reformatory Inmate

No. in Admissions Register: 1267
Age: 13 (born 10 December 1887)
Whence received: Liverpool Petty Sessions
Description:  
Complexion: -
Hair colour: -
Eyes colour: -
Height: -
Particular marks: -
State of health: -
Able-bodied? -
Date of admission: 12 April 1901
Late residence: 25a Major Street, Liverpool
Parish he belongs to: -
Customary work and mode of life: Schoolboy. Continually sleeping out at night
Whether illegitimate: No
State of education:  
Reads: Imperfectly, Standard 3
Writes: Imperfectly, Standard 3
Offence: Rogue and vagabond
Circumstances which may have led to it: Lack of parental control
Date of sentence, by whom and court: 11 April 1901; W J Stewart; Liverpool Petty Sessions
Where imprisoned: -
Sentence: 5 years at Saltley
Previous committals:  
Number: 1
Length: -
For what: Vagrancy
Father's name: John Blair
Occupation: Shipwright
Mother's name: Eliza Blair
Occupation: -
Parents dead? Neither
Survivor married again? -
Parents' treatment of child: -
Character of parents Nothing known against the boy's father. The mother is a drunkard, and living apart from her husband - whereabouts unknown
Parents' wages: -
Amount parents agree to pay: -
Parents address: 25a Major Street, Liverpool
Superintendent of police (to collect                      payments): Inspector J McCoy, Liverpool
Person making this return: J McCoy
   
Notes:
   
2 April 1904 The Register of Boys on Licence records that Blair was licensed to go out and work for Mr Wallis, Coleshill Hall Farm, Coleshill
   
10 April 1906 Sentence expired whilst out on licence, discharged from Saltley