| No. in Admissions Register: | 146 |
| Date of admission: | 2 June 1858 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| By whom brought: | Mr Mountford, Deputy Governor |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| 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? | Cow pox |
| Particular marks: | Burn on right foot |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 13 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | 8 (?) November |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Wolverhampton |
| Parish to which he belongs: | Wolverhampton |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Labourer at iron works |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing a pair of boots |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad companions |
| Date of sentence: | 19 May 1858 |
| Where convicted: | Wolverhampton |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison, 2 years at Reformatory |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Stealing a shawl (3 months prison) |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Mother's name: | - Owen |
| Occupation: | Tripe cleaner |
| Residence: | Fisher's Buildings, Albion Street, Penn Road, Wolverhampton |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | Good |
| Parents dead? | Mother |
| Survivor married again? | No |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Kind |
| Character of parents: | Sober. Bad health |
| Parents' wages: | About 7s per week |
| Weekly amount parents will pay | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | Mr Joseph Boyd, schoolmaster, Hardwick Reformatory, Gloucester |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | 9 April |
26 May 1858 There is a report of his offence in the Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser 26 May 1858 p.6 col.3: ROBBERY FROM A SHOP DOOR. - Joseph Owen, aged 13, was charged with stealing a pair of boots from the shop door of Mr Joseph Hadkinson, boot maker of Lichfield Street. Catherine Grimes, who lives opposite Mr Hadkinson's shop, deposed that between five and six o'clock on Tuesday evening she saw the prisoner in company with two other boys lurking about the shop; one of the three boys snatched the boots from the shop door, and then they all ran away. Witness gave an alarm, and the prisoner was apprehended. The boots were not found in his possession. The mother of the prisoner stated that the boy had found some very bad companions. He had been three or four times brought before the Magistrates, and twice summarily convicted. The Bench sentenced him to fourteen days imprisonment, and directed him to be afterwards detained in a Reformatory for a period of two years.
22 Jul 1858 Absconded with Bentley [boy 139] and Finn [boy 101]. Was apprehended at Wolverhampton and committed to Stafford Gaol for 1 month. Returned to school 27 August.
1 Jun 1860 Returned to his mother
2 Jul 1860 Heard from the chaplain at Stafford Gaol that he had again been committed to prison for theft.
1 Feb 1861 Heard of his being in regular employment at Price's Safe works, Wolverhampton
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