Edward Cunningham - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 1278 |
| Age: | 14 (born 2 November 1886) |
| Whence received: | Handsworth Petty Sessions |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Very dark |
| Eyes colour: | Blue mottled |
| Height: | 4 ft 6½ ins |
| Particular marks: | Right arm - FW pictorial EC pictorial [1st pictorial is a vertical rectangle, short side to side long top to bottom, with a horizontal line passing through about a third of way from top of rectangle which stands on another rectangle, long side to side, short top to bottom; second pictorial is a rectangle, long side to side short top to bottom with 3 dots in a horizontal line above the top of it]; left arm - True Love, AS gravestone, cross |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 26 July 1901 |
| Late residence: | 14 court 5 house Great Hampton Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | - |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Nil. An associate of thieves |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly, Standard 3 |
| Writes: | Imperfectly, Standard 3 |
| Offence: | Stealing 2 pairs of boots |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Lack of parental control |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 26 July 1901; J H Wilkinson and T Wells; Handsworth Petty Sessions |
| Where imprisoned: | Not |
| Sentence: | 4 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 2 |
| Length: | 1) (7 September 1900) -; 2) (14 February 1901) - |
| For what: | 1) Larceny; 2) larceny |
| Father's name: | Edward Cunningham |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Mother's name: | Mary Ann Cunningham |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Neglectful |
| Character of parents | Good |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Parents address: | 14 court 5 house Great Hampton Street, Birmingham |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Superintendent Ainsworth, Handsworth |
| Person making this return: | J Ainsworth, Superintendent of Police |
| Notes: | |
| 5 December 1904 The Register of Boys on Licence records that Cunningham was licensed to go out and work for Mr T Burns, Great Hampton Street, Birmingham | |
| 25 July 1905 Sentence expired whilst out on licence, discharged from Saltley | |
| No. in Admissions Register: | 206 |
| Date of admission: | 12 March 1861 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Dark |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Perfect vision? | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Vaccinated |
| Particular marks: | None |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 12 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Walsall Street, Wolverhampton |
| Parish he belongs to: | Wolverhampton |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Collier |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing iron |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Poverty, want of employment, and neglect of parents |
| Date of sentence: | 25 February 1861 |
| Where convicted: | Bilston Police Court |
| Who prosecuted: | W Partridge |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | stealing money (3 days and whipping) |
| Father's name: | William Allen |
| Occupation: | Collier |
| Residence: | Walsall Street, Wolverhampton |
| Mother's name: | Ann Allen |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Drunken |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Well, but neglected him!! |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | 3s 6d per day |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Ought to pay 1s 6d per week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Captain Segram, Police Officer, Wolverhampton |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | J Collins Ward, Police Officer, Wolverhampton |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
Notes:
| 22 January 1865 Licensed to work for Mr Emery, Locksmith, St James Square, Wolverhampton |
| January 1866 Working at a forge - attends St Matthews Sunday School |
| 20? May 1866 Called at the school |
| August 1867 Called at the school - a private at the 81st Regiment |
| October 1867 Wrote from Cork |
Charles Samuel Hardman - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 585 |
| Age: | 11 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fair |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Date of admission and term: | 29 October 1877 5 years |
| Late residence: | Greenhill, Lichfield |
| Parish he belongs to: | St Michael's, Lichfield |
| Customary work and mode of life: | None |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Malicious damage to a sheep |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 28 September 1877, Lichfield Petty Sessions, F Symonds and R Crosskey |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Mother's name: | Mary Ann Hardman |
| Occupation: | Cook at the Swan |
| Parents dead? | Father |
| Survivor married again? | No |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | 10s per week and keep |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s |
| Parents address: | Lower Sandford Street, Lichfield |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
Notes:
| 5 October 1877 There is a report of the crime in the Lichfield Mercury Friday 5 October 1877 p.5 col.1: JUVENILE DEPRAVITY.- Four juveniles named Charles Samuel Hardman, 10, Sandford Street, Thomas Mountain, 7, Rotten Row, Joseph Johnston, 6, Dean's Row, and Thomas Smith, Greenhill, 6, were charged with having on Wednesday, the 26th of August, killed a lamb and maimed a sheep, the property of James Hall, at the parish of St. Michael. -The circumstances of this case, which are generally known, are so disgusting to contemplate as to be altogether unworthy of being reproduced for publication.-After the facts of the case were elicited, the boys' mothers were arraigned with them. Mr. Symonds, in passing sentence, pointed out to those of the three younger that the Bench was unable to deal with them, owing to their age, but hoped they would punish and make them aware of the enormity of the offence. Hardman, who appeared to have been the ringleader, would be imprisoned for a month, and after that time undergo five fears in a reformatory.-The former part of the sentence seemed to relieve the minds of the anxious mothers, but on the announcement of that relating to Hardman, the scene was affectingly changed. The silence and tranquility which reigned in the court was suddenly broken by the sensation which it occasioned. Hardman's mother burst into tears, and implored the Bench to mitigate the irrevokable sentence, and ejaculating "Oh, my boy," embraced him who was scarcely yet sensible of what had transpired, only realising it vaguely in the conduct of his distressed mother, while the parents of the unpunished boys showed a mixed commotion uf thankfulness and compassion. |
Cecil Wray - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 601 |
| Age: | 11 |
| Whence received: | Stafford County Prison |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Light blue |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | Mole back of neck |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Date of admission: | 15 April 1878 |
| Late residence: | Walsall |
| Parish he belongs to: | Walsall |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Errand boy |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing tobacco |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 15 March 1878; W H Rodgers and J Loveridge; Bilston Petty Sessions |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford Prison |
| Sentence: | 1 month in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 1 |
| Length: | 10 days |
| For what: | Garden robbing |
| Father's name: | John Tisdale (stepfather) |
| Occupation: | tailor |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Father |
| Survivor married again? | Yes |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Not very good |
| Character of parents | Honest, not very sober, good health |
| Parents' wages: | About 15s per week. Wife earns a little more with mangle. 8 children |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s |
| Parents address: | Walsall |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Hugh McCrea, Chief Superintendent of Police, Bilston, Staffordshire |
| Person making this return: | John william Hall, Justices' Clerk, Bilston, 5 April 1878 |
| When and how left reformatory: | 28 Feb 1882 - discharged by order of the Home Secretary to allow him to emigrate to NSW |
Notes:
| 28 February 1882 Discharged by order of the Home Secretary as he is about to emigrate to New South Wales |
Henry Lines - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 768 |
| Age: | 15 |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Birmingham |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Blue |
| Visage: | Oval |
| Particular marks: | 473 at H S, and on left arm |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | ################################## |
| Late residence: | Gem Street Industrial School, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Warwick |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Labouring, before admission to the Industrial School |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing 42 lbs of lead |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Wanted money to spend on sweets, etc |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 31 March 1885; T C S Kynnersley, Stipendiary Magistrate; Birmingham Police Court |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Birmingham |
| Sentence: | 14 days hard labour in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | Sent from Aston some time in 1882 |
| Length: | To Gem Street Industrial School for 5 years |
| For what: | Stealing iron |
| Father's name: | George Lines |
| Occupation: | Sawyer |
| Mother's name: | Isabella Lines |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | No |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Fairly respectable |
| Parents' wages: | Father earns about 30s weekly |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Parents address: | 15 house Anson Buildings, Linton Street, Warwick |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | M Elliott |
| Notes: | |
| 29 March 1888 Formally discharged from Saltley by order of the Home Secretary, on account of emigrating to Canada along with Kempson [boy 779] and Haddleton [boy 788] | |
| 5 April 1888 The Reformatory Committee Log Book report records receipt of a letter from Lines, on board ship at London | |
| 14 August 1888 The Log book report records receipt of a letter from Lines, Davenport, Ontario | |
| 10 February 1891 The Log book report records receipt of a letter from Lines, Warwick | |