| No. in Admissions Register: | 76 |
| Date of admission: | 24 July 1855 |
| Weekly payments: | - |
| Age: | 14 |
| Education: | Good |
| Previous employment: | Gun finisher |
| Crimes, how often and in what prison: | 4 |
| Training in reformatory: | 25 May 1857 |
| When left reformatory: | Shoemaker |
| Parentage and family: | Both living |
| Residence: | Slaney Street, Birmingham |
| Trade of father: | Labourer |
| With whom the boy is placed: | Transferred to Mount St Bernard’s reformatory |
| Address: | - |
| Trade: | - |
[No date] Committed by Birmingham Recorder for 2½ years.
9 May 1857 It was noted in the Birmingham Journal Saturday 9 May 1857 p.3 col.5 that: a boy named John Lundy was charged with absconding from Saltley Reformatory, and the case being proved, he was sent back again.
22 December 1858 Interestingly, there is an advert for the medical skills of a Mr Airey in the Birmingham Daily Post Wednesday 22 Dec 1858 p.3 foot of col.5 which includes: TESTIMONIALS. – Mr John Lundy [presumably the boy’s father], 30 Slaney Street. – “I have suffered for four days from the Tic and the Pain in my Head and Face. I have had no sleep at nights. I have been perfectly cured by Mr Airey in one minute.â€
4 April 1857 In the Reformatory Minute book is recorded: 423. Resolved: that an application be made to the Secretary of State for the dismissal of Elkington [boy 83], Wright [boy 77], Lundy, Brookes [boy 61], Dempsey [boy 86], and Campton [boy 54], and that Elkington and Wright be allowed to go to the masters who have applied to take them as apprentices; that Lundy and Brookes be placed under the care of Mr Pawson, who promised to find them work; and that Campton and Dempsey be assisted to emigrate.
3 June 1857 In a list of ‘disposals’, the Minute Book reports that Lundy has been removed to Mount St Bernard’s Reformatory [At Mount St Bernard Abbey, Leicestershire, which dealt with Catholic boys].
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