Thomas Walker [47] - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 47 |
| Date of admission: | 19 January 1854 |
| Weekly payments: | - |
| Age: | 15 |
| Education: | Indifferent |
| Previous employment: | Errand boy |
| Crimes, how often and in what prison: | Various prisons, 5 |
| Training in reformatory: | Farm labourer |
| When left reformatory: | Has been 3 months on trial but left the institution(?) on … |
| Parentage and family: | Mother dead |
| Residence: | - |
| Trade of father: | Soldier |
| With whom the boy is placed: | Mr John Parmenter |
| Address: | Blake Lane, Small Heath |
| Trade: | As indoor servant and to attend to horses and gig |
Notes:
| 7 October 1854 in the Minute Book of the Reformatory it is recorded that Walker has been taken by Mr Parmenter into his household service at a neighbouring villa. |
| 2 January 1855 In the Minute Book it is recorded that Thos. Walker having been three months on trial has been articled for three years to Mr Parmenter. |
| 23 April 1855 In the Minute Book it states that: the Secretaries reported that Ealker, who had been articled to Mr Parmenter had returned to the Institution in weak health. |
| Resolved: that Mr Ratcliff see Mr Parmenter thereon. |
| 6 July 1855 in the Minute Book, a correction is given to the Minute of 23 Apr 1855: On reading minute 127, Mr Ratcliff reported that Walker had joined the militia [the Rifles]. |
| 5 November 1856 The Minute Book reported: 337… Resolved that Mr Adderley be requested to write to the Emigration Commissioners on the subject of Catchpole, Walker, and Payne going to Australia. |
| 4 April 1857 In the Reformatory Minute book is recorded: 424. Resolved: that Mr Grove, who is about to emigrate to New Zealand, be induced to take under his charge Catchpole [boy 12], Walker, Campton [boy 54], and Dempsey [boy 86], and that Mr Ratcliff report at next meeting. |
| 20 April 1857 The Minute Book notes: 445. Mr Ratcliff reported that Mr Grove had decided not to leave England. |
| 11 August 1857 The Minute Book noted: 469. Mr Ratcliff reported that he had arranged with Messrs [no name given] & Co of Liverpool to secure a berth by the ship Melbourne sailing in a few days for Canada, that Thomas Walker (late an inmate) might emigrate. Lord Calthorpe and Mr Adderley having each subscribed £5 towards the expenses. |
| 18 December 1860 The Reformatory Minute Book states: 735. Letters were read from George Bolt [boy 110], now a sailor in a vessel trading between New York and Havre, containing information respecting his own career and that of Benjamin Tranford [boy 102], now a successful butcher in Toronto, and Cotterill [boy 108], now a cook on board a large steamer in America, and Walker [boy 47] and Carlton [boy 91], who are doing well and employed by a farmer at New Orleans, and Beard [boy 105], who is now in prison in Kingston for stealing, and Dempsey [boy 86], who drowned himself through ill-usage on board a ship from New York to Havre. |