| No. in Admissions Register: | 91 |
| Date of admission: | 29 April 1856 |
| Weekly payments: | - |
| Age: | 14 |
| Education: | None |
| Previous employment: | None |
| Crimes, how often and in what prison: | 7 or 8 |
| Training in reformatory: | Absconded 31 June 1857?, brought back 15 Dec 1857 |
| When left reformatory: | - |
| Parentage and family: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Trade of father: | - |
| With whom the boy is placed: | Emigrated to Toronto, Upper Canada, 29 April 1858 in company of Darby Welch [boy.96] |
| Address: | - |
| Trade: | - |
20 March 1856 A brief report of his crime is given in the Liverpool Daily Post Thursday 20 March 1856 p.4, col.3: Three boys [John Upton, Thomas Cavanah, and John Carlton], aged about twelve, were brought up on remand for stealing a piece of beef [from the shop of Mr Smith, Parliament Street - they were caught offering it for sale in the streets]. John Carlton, said to be a daring young thief, and a leader amongst them, was sent to prison until the 29th of April; after that he was to be sent to the Saltley reformatory for five years.
4 April 1857 In the Reformatory Minute book is recorded: 425.Mr Humphreys reported that Rooney [boy 63] 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 [boy 63] and Tremble [boy 64], also against Carlton, Taylor [boy 92], Collins [boy 100], and Hughes [boy 70], who absconded on the 1st of April.
3 June 1857 The Minute Book lists those boys who have absconded and are still at large, including Carlton.
24 December 1857 The Minute Book notes: 482. Resolved: that J Carlton be allowed to remain at the Institution until a situation is found for him at sea or by emigration and that Mr Ratcliff can make such arrangements as he may think best.
21 March 1858 The Minute Book reports: 493. That the Visitors for the month be authorised to arrange for the emigration of 4 or 5 boys, with a view to making vacancies for Staffordshire cases, and that their attention in the first instance be directed to the two Taylors [ambiguous but probably the brothers, boys 87 and 88], Welch [boy 96], and Carlton.
7 April 1858 The Minute book states: 501. Mr Ratcliff reported that application had been made for the sanction of Government for the Emigration to Canada of the two Taylors [boys 87 and 88] and Welch [boy 96], whose fathers had consented, and of Carlton, with respect to whose parents Mr Carter is making enquiries at Liverpool.
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.
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