| No. in Admissions Register: | 103 |
| Date of admission: | 23 May 1857 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| By whom brought: | Mr Montford |
| On what terms: | Committed |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | - |
| Hair colour: | - |
| Eyes colour: | - |
| Perfect vision? | - |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 14 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | Walsall |
| Has resided: | at Walsall |
| Parish to which he belongs: | Walsall |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Saddler |
| Schools attended: | 3 months at Walsall Bluecoat School |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education | |
| Reads: | Scarcely knows the alphabet |
| Writes: | Nil |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | An act of vagrancy |
| Circumstances which may have led to it | |
| Date of sentence: | 11 May 1857 |
| Where convicted: | Guildhall, Walsall, before W Thomas, Esq, Mayor, W. Ward and F B Overton |
| Sentence: | 14 days in prison, 2 years at Saltley |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford Gaol |
| Previous committals and convictions: | none |
| Father's name: | Charles Allen |
| Occupation: | Saddler |
| Residence: | Priory Yard, Park Street, Walsall |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | A drinker |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Mother dead |
| Survivor married again? | No |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents: | - |
| Parents' wages: | about 30s per week |
| Weekly amount parents will pay: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | Justices' Clerk, Walsall |
| Estimate of character on admission: | Open-faced and saucy |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
16 May 1857 There is a short report of his crime in the Walsall Free Press and General Advertiser Saturday 16 May 1857 p.4 col.3: VAGRANCY. - An intelligent looking boy named Alfred Allen, son of a saddler in the town, was charged with being found in an uninhabited house in St Paul's Row at two o'clock on Saturday morning. Sergeant Dackus said the lad's father was in Stafford Gaol for debt, and the lad had no home to go to. He was sent to prison for fourteen days as a preliminary step to obtaining his admission to a reformatory, to which he will be sent for two years. [A similar report in the Staffordshire Advertiser of 16 May 1857 p.2 col.7 also says that he is about 14 years of age, that his father was once in prosperous circumstances, and that he had been "cadging" at the station for some time].
1 Nov 1857 Name on Good Conduct List
9 Apr 1858 Stole a cake out of a shop at Upper Saltley. His name removed from the list
12 Aug 1858 Name returned to Good Conduct List
5 April 1859 The Reformatory Minute Book states: 570. The secretary reported that the Reformatory and Refuge Union had accepted three boys as candidates for free passage to Canada, viz. William Beard [boy 105], Alfred Allen, and Michael Logan [boy 135]. The Committee are requested to have the boys examined by a Magistrate on behalf of the Union.9 May 1859 Emigrated to Canada with Tranford (boy 102), Beard (105), Bolt (110), Hogan (135), and Cotterill (108). A very fine-grown open-faced lad. Character now good and likely to do well. Capital shoemaker.
November 1859 Returned to England and worked at shoemaking at Walsall
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