Michael Rooney - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 63 |
| Date of admission: | 18 January 1855 |
| Weekly payments: | - |
| Age: | 13 |
| Education: | None |
| Previous employment: | Brass founder |
| Crimes, how often and in what prison: | First offence |
| Training in reformatory: | Absconded 4 April 1857 |
| When left reformatory: | Garden |
| Parentage and family: | Father and Mother living |
| Residence: | Lyons Buildings, Rushton St. [Birmingham] |
| Trade of father: | Book keeper |
| With whom the boy is placed: | - |
| Address: | - |
| Trade: | - |
Notes:
| 13 January 1855 A brief report of his crime in the Birmingham Journal Saturday 13 Jan 1855 p.6 col.6 says: Michael Rooney, brassfounder, for receiving two pounds [weight] of brass castings, the property of James Collins and another, his masters, knowing it to have been stolen; fourteen days imprisonment, and three years at the Reformatory School at Saltley. |
| 4 April 1857 In the Reformatory Minute book is recorded: 425.Mr Humphreys reported that Rooney and Tremble [boy 64] had absconded this day after attempting to pass bad money at a shop in the neighbourhood, and that the man who called at the school kept the halfcrown, and the charge against the boys can be proved. |
| 426. Resolved: that information be sent to Mr Stephens at the Police Courts, and that proceedings be taken against Rooney and Tremble [boy 64], also against Carlton [boy 91], Taylor [boy 87 or 88], Collins [boy 100], and Hughes [boy 70], who absconded on the 1st of April. |
| 3 June 1857 The Minute Book list those boys who have absconded and are still at large, including Rooney. |