Saltley Reformatory Inmates

Albert Frost

No. in Admissions Register:	142
Date of admission:	10 February 1858
Whence received:	Stafford Gaol
By whom brought:	-
On what terms:	-
Friends interested in him:	-
Description:
Height:	-
Figure:	-
Complexion:	Fresh
Hair colour:	Brown
Eyes colour:	Hazel
Perfect vision?	Yes
State of health:	-
Able-bodied?	Yes
Sound intellect?	Yes
Use of all limbs?	Yes
Had cow or small pox?	Has had the cowpox
Particular marks:	Cut on forefinger of right hand
Cutaneous disorder?	No
Scrofulous or consumptive?	No
Subject to fits?	No
Age last birthday:	11
Illegitimate?	No
Birthday:	-
Birth place:	-
Has resided:	at Leek
Parish to which he belongs:	Leek and Lowe
Customary work and mode of life:	Wood turning
Schools attended:	-
By whom and where employed:	-
State of education:
Reads:	-
Writes:	-
Cyphers:
General ability:
Offence:	Stealing a metal tap and lead piping with 141 [Albert Brookes]
Circumstances which may have led to it:	Bad company
Date of sentence:	21 January 1858
Where convicted:	Leek Petty Sessions, before J Cruso and J Russell, Rev T H Heathcote
Where imprisoned:	Stafford
Sentence:	21 days prison, 2 years at Saltley
Previous committals and convictions:	None, but has been charged with several other offences committed about the same period as the one of which he was convicted 21 Jan.
Father's name:	Thomas Frost
Occupation:	Weaver
Residence:	Albion Street, Leek, Staffordshire
Mother's name:	- Frost
Occupation:	-
Residence:	-
Father's character:	-
Mother's character:	-
Parents dead?	No
Survivor married again?	-
Parents' treatment of child:	Not known
Character of parents:	Same – not lived in Leek long. Nothing known against them.
Parents' wages:	Not known
Weekly amount parents will pay:	An order is to be made by the magistrates
Superintendent of police (to collect payments):	Thomas Woolaston, Leek
Relatives to communicate with:	-
Person making this return:	J Williams, Inspector of Police, Leek
Estimate of character on admission:	-
Character on discharge:	-
When and how left the Reformatory:	On expiration of term of detention, 10 February 1860

Notes:

23 January 1858 There is a brief report of his offence in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 23 January 1858 p.4 col.5: At Leek, on the 21st instant, before John Cruso and John Russell Esqrs, and the Rev H T Heathcote, Albert Brooks [surname spelled thus], of Derby Street, and Albert Frost of Albion Street, both under twelve years of age, were each sentenced to 21 days' hard labour, and on its expiration to be sent to the Reformatory School, for cutting off and stealing two brass taps, the property of Messers Wm Brough and James Smith, on the 18th inst.

24 Dec 1860 heard of at Mr S Bennison's, Brock Street, Beech Lane, Macclesfield, learning broad silk weaving and bearing a good character

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