| No. in Admissions Register: | 118 |
| Date of admission: | 17 October 1857 |
| Whence received: | Westminster |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | Committed |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fair |
| Hair colour: | Fair |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Yes |
| Particular marks: | None |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 10 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | 2 Hope Place, Mile End Road, London |
| Parish to which he belongs: | Stepney |
| Customary work and mode of life: | None |
| Schools attended: | Private school, Mr Lees, Spitalfields |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Fairly |
| Writes: | Fairly |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing 10s 6d from his mother |
| Circumstances which may | Not known |
| Date of sentence: | 18 September 1857 |
| Where convicted: | Thames Police Court before H S Selfe |
| Sentence: | 1 calendar month in prison, 4 years at Saltley |
| Where imprisoned: | |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None |
| Fathers name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Mothers name: | Ann Hockney |
| Occupation: | Dressmaker |
| Residence: | 2 Hope Place, Mile End Rroad, London |
| Fathers character: | - |
| Mothers character: | Respectable |
| Parents dead? | Father dead |
| Survivor married again? | No |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents: | - |
| Parents wages: | M other earns 7-8 shillings per week |
| Weekly amount parents will pay: | 2 shillings per week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | Henry Selfe Selfe, Thames Police Court |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
26 September 1857 There is a report of his offence in the East London Observer Saturday 26 September 1857 p.3 col.4: On Friday, Mr Adderley, a philanthropic gentleman, who has built a Reformatory at Saltley, near Birmingham, paid a visit to Mr Selfe, and remained several hours in the court. A boy, named Herbert Hackney [surname spelled thus], only ten years, of good education, was charged with robbing his mother, Mrs Ann Hackney, Mile End Road. He stole 10s 6d, in his mother's absence, and it was stated that he had formerly plundered a Wesleyan missionary box of a large sum of money, in the house where his mother resided; that his education was beyond his years, and that he could write as well as any clerk in London. Mr Selfe committed the lad of "perverted mind," as he was described, to a month's imprisonment and hard labour, and afterwards to be imprisoned in Mr Adderley's reformatory school at Saltley for five years. He was very glad Mr Adderley had established a reformatory to which he could send juvenile offenders.
1 February 1858 name on Good Conduct List
1 January 1861 allowed a month's leave for his mother to find him employment
1 February 1861 his mother applied for his discharge, to work for Mr Woodfield, 4 Maria Terrace, Beaumont Square, Mile End Road, London
5 November 1864 had a letter from his mother stating that he is now an apprentice in the Royal Navy aboard the ship Dauntless at Southampton.
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