Saltley Reformatory Inmates


Michael Rooney

[Return to Index]

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.

[Return to Index]

← Prev Next →

 

This web page © 2020 Fred Miller