| No. in Admissions Register: | 135 |
| Date of admission: | 15 January 1858 |
| Whence received: | Warwick Gaol |
| By whom brought: | Edward Gill |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | Stout |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Dark brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | - |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Cowpox |
| Particular marks: | Very small pock mark on right side of chin |
| Cutaneous disorder? | - |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | - |
| Subject to fits? | - |
| Age last birthday: | 14 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | 8 Mill Lane, Coventry |
| Parish to which he belongs: | St Michael's [Coventry] |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Ribbon weaver's loom turner |
| Schools attended: | Only the prison school |
| By whom and where employed: | Mr Johnstone, Painslane, Coventry |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Very little |
| Writes: | No |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing 4 pairs of galoshes at Leamington Priors |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Want of employment |
| Date of sentence: | 16 December 1857 |
| Where convicted: | Leamington Priors before Wm Parker and H Jepson, Esqs |
| Sentence: | 1 calendar month in prison, 3 years at Saltley |
| Where imprisoned: | Warwick Gaol |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Being secreted in premises in Warwick with intention, 14 days House of Correction |
| Father's name: | John Cherry (stepfather) |
| Occupation | Bricklayer's labourer |
| Residence: | 8 Mill Lane, Coventry |
| Mother's name: | Mary Cherry |
| Occupation: | Washerwoman |
| Residence: | 8 Mill Lane, Coventry |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Father |
| Survivor married again? | Mother married John Cherry |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents: | - |
| Parents' wages: | From 15s to 17s per week |
| Weekly amount parents will pay | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | Quiet; harmless looking |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
13 February 1857 There is a report of his offence in the Coventry Standard Friday 13 February, p.4, col.8: John Ryan, and two lads, named Michael Logan (aged 13) and William Looms (aged 14) were charged with breaking into a shop in the occupation of John Langley, wheelwright and smith, in Hillfields, on Wednesday night last, and stealing therefrom five pairs of skates of the value of 20s. Mr Holt prosecuted. It appeared the skate were seen on Monday and Tuesday last, and missed on Thursday morning. The man Ryan was apprehended at Hancox's broker's shop, where he offered two pairs of the skates for sale; he at once told the policeman that Logan brought three pairs of skates home on Wednesday night, and said he found them in the street; and his wife went with the constable in search of the boy for four or five hours. The police gave Ryan a good character, and his employer, Mr Taylor, also spoke to his honesty, and under these circumstances the charge against him was withdrawn. The other prisoners pleaded guilty; and PC Frankton stated he found a pair of skates in possession of each of them, and also a pair they had hid in a brickyard. Mrs Looms said her son was employed to turn a loom, and she believed he had got into bad company. The mother of the boy Logan said he went regularly to work. - The Magistrates said they had committed an offence of a serious nature, and sentenced them to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for three months.
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 [boy 106], and Michael Logan. 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), etc. Assisted to a passage by the Reformatory and the Refuge Union. His conduct had been generally good.
10 July 1859 in the service of Macintosh & Brown, Yorkville, Canada, as baker at 4 dollars a month. "If he stays he will do extremely well."
6 December 1860 working for a baker at Toronto.
3 September 1863 heard of doing well
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