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No. in Admissions Register: 339
Date of admission: 27 June 1866
Whence received: Stafford
By whom brought: -
On what terms: -
Friends interested in him: -
Description:  
Height: -
Figure: -
Complexion: -
Hair colour: -
Eyes colour: -
Perfect vision? -
State of health: -
Able-bodied? -
Sound intellect? -
Use of all limbs? -
Had cow or small pox? -
Particular marks: -
Cutaneous disorder? -
Scrofulous or consumptive? -
Subject to fits? -
Age last birthday: 12
Illegitimate? -
Birthday: -
Birth place: -
Has resided: Wolverhampton
Parish he belongs to: -
Customary work and mode of life: -
Schools attended: -
By whom and where employed: -
State of education:  
Reads: Imperfectly
Writes: Not
Cyphers: -
General ability: -
Offence: Stealing 8d
Circumstances which may have led to it: Bad company
Date of sentence: 6 July 1866
Where convicted: Newcastle
Who prosecuted: -
Where imprisoned: -
Sentence: 21 days prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley
Previous committals and convictions: Felony (10 days)
Father's name: William Allen
Occupation: Was a miner, but is crippled
Residence: Bissell's Buildings, Walsall Street, Wolverhampton
Mother's name: Ann Allen
Occupation: Charwoman
Residence: -
Father's character: Nothing known against
Mother's character: Nothing known against
Parents dead? -
Survivor married again? -
Parents' treatment of child: Not known
Character of parents -
Parents' wages: Mother 2s 6d per week
Amount parents agree to pay: None
Superintendent of police (to collect payments): -
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Person making this return: -
Estimate of character on admission: -
Character on discharge: -
When and how left the Reformatory: Discharged 26 July 1871


Notes:

11 July 1866 There is a brief report of the crime in the Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 11 July 1866 p.6 col.3: COMMITTAL TO A REFORMATORY.-Wm. Allen [first name given erroneously thus], a boy thief, twelve years of age, was brought up on remand from last week, on the charge of stealing money from the shop till of a person named Rhodes, a baker, in Canal Street. The prisoner had been three times previously convicted of felony. Mr. Spooner sentenced him to 21 days' imprisonment, and at the expiration of that term to be sent to a Reformatory for five years.
 
28 June 1871 Licensed to work for our late tailor, J Hardwick
 
26 July 1871 Discharged