| No. in Admissions Register: | 127 |
| Date of admission: | 9 November 1857 |
| Whence received: | House of Correction, Westminster |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | Committed |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fair |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Blue |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Cow pox |
| Particular marks | None |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 12 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | 12 Camden court, Milton Street, Finsbury |
| Parish to which he belongs: | - |
| Customary work and mode of life | Errand boy |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | By a greengrocer (Ann Foot) |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | None |
| Writes: | None |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing £15 from his master |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Parents worked from home and he fell into bad company |
| Date of sentence: | 11 August 1857 |
| Where convicted: | Sessions house, Clerkenwell before R Pashley Esq, Assistant Judge |
| Sentence: | 3 months in prison, 4 years at Saltley |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Not known |
| Father's name: | William Kellen |
| Occupation | Blacksmith |
| Residence: | 12 Camden court, Milton Street, Finsbury |
| Mother's name: | Mary Kellen |
| Occupation: | Shopwoman |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | No |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents: | Good; health good |
| Parents' wages: | Average about 30s per week |
| Weekly amount parents will pay: | 9d |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | Chas. Cheetham, Governor, House of Correction, Westminster |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
6 August 1857 A report of his crime is given in the Morning Chronicle Saturday 6 August 1857 p.8 col.3: ROBBERY BY A BOY. - George Kellen, a boy of only twelve tears of age, of Camden Court, Milton Street, was placed at the bar, before Mr Hammill, charged with stealing £15 from his mistress, a greengrocer, residing in Milton Street.
Mrs Ann Foot said the prisoner had been in her employ about a fortnight. Yesterday she placed two £5 notes, four sovereigns, and some silver in a drawer in the sitting room, and while she left the room for a few minutes in the afternoon, the prisoner crept in and purloined the whole of the money, with which he ran off. Some time afterwards he returned, and, when he was accused of the robbery, he was denied the charge, and was given into custody. The police, from some information, took the prisoner to a water closet in the court in which he resided, and, after a long search, found the whole of the money.
The prisoner, who has before been charged with robbery, said, in defence, that some boys asked him to steal the money, but he was not aware it was so much.
Mr Hammill committed the prisoner for trial.
10 September 1860 absconded with Brown [boy 119] just as it grew dark under pretence of fetching clothes off the line in the field.
16 July 1861 The Minute Book reported: 799. Resolved: that the Superintendent be instructed to arrange for the apprehension and punishment of Kellen for absconding, but that the Committee are unwilling to receive him again, his term being so short.
3 December 1861 The Minute Book recorded 829. On reading Minute 799, Mr Humphreys reported that Kellen's term had expired.
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