Saltley Reformatory Inmates

Hector Beaton

No. in Admissions Register:	147
Date of admission:	16 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:	Light 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?	No
Particular marks:	Scar on left cheek
Cutaneous disorder?	No
Scrofulous or consumptive?	No
Subject to fits?	No
Age last birthday:	14
Illegitimate?	No
Birthday:	-
Birth place:	-
Has resided:	Wolverhampton
Parish to which he belongs:	Wolverhampton
Customary work and mode of life:	Labourer at an iron forge
Schools attended:	-
By whom and where employed:	-
State of education:
Reads:	Imperfectly
Writes:	Imperfectly
Cyphers:	-
General ability:	-
Offence:	Stealing a handkerchief
Circumstances which may have led to it:	Parents' neglect
Date of sentence:	2 June 1858
Where convicted:	Wolverhampton
Where imprisoned:	-
Sentence:	14 days prison, 4 years at Reformatory
Previous committals and convictions:	None
Father's name:	Hector Beaton
Occupation	Overlooker at a Scotch ironworks; was a railway watchman
Residence:	-
Mother's name:	Ellen Beaton
Occupation:	-
Residence:	Castle Yard, Market Street, Wolverhampton. Now in gaol.
Father's character:	Industrious and respectful
Mother's character:	Drinker
Parents dead?	Mother
Survivor married again?	No
Parents' treatment of child:	Greatly neglected
Character of parents:	Separated owing to drunkenness of wife
Parents' wages:	Not known
Weekly amount parents will pay	-
Superintendent of police (to collect payments):	-
Relatives to communicate with:
Person making this return:	-
Estimate of character on admission:	-
Character on discharge:	-
When and how left the Reformatory:	-

Notes:

20 December 1856 There is a report in the Staffordshire Sentinel and Commercial and General Advertiser Saturday 20 September 1856 p.7 col.3 of a boy named Hector Beaton being thrashed by a boy who had stolen a pistol and against whom Hector gave evidence.

10 July 1861 "I hereby acknowledge that I emigrate to Sydney of my own free will and I hereby thank Mr P Lloyd and the Committee of this school for giving me such a privilege" - Hector Beaton

12 July Sailed in the Stornoway for Sydney with 152, 137, 138.

16 July 1861 The Minute Book states: 791. On reading Minute 736 and subsequent Minutes down to Minute 780, it was reported that the final selection of boys to complete the number for emigration had fallen upon Pennefather [boy 120] and Abberley [boy 152] and that accordingly, Pennefather, Brittain [boy 111], Lowe [boy 151], and Oswald [boy 124] had gone to Canada, and that Abberley, Drake [boy 138], Beaton [boy 147], and Berry [boy 137] had gone to Sydney since last meeting of the Committee.25 August 1862 Apprenticed to a shoemaker in Sydney (J. Abberley's letter).

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