| No. in Admissions Register: | 176 |
| Date of admission: | 9 July 1860 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | - |
| Hair colour: | - |
| Eyes colour: | - |
| Perfect vision? | - |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Sound intellect? | - |
| Use of all limbs? | - |
| Had cow or small pox? | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| Cutaneous disorder? | - |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | - |
| Subject to fits? | - |
| Age last birthday: | 13 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Littles Lane, Wolverhampton |
| Parish to which he belongs: | Wolverhampton |
| Customary work and mode of life: | In a nail factory |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Nil |
| Writes: | Nil |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing a jacket from a shop door |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Out of work and bad company |
| Date of sentence: | 18 April 1860 |
| Where convicted: | Wolverhampton |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 21 days prison, 4 years detention at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | stealing a loaf (1 day in prison) |
| Father's name: | Anthony Moran |
| Occupation: | Collier |
| Residence: | 10 court Littles Lane, Wolverhampton |
| Mother's name: | Winifred Moran |
| Occupation: | Sells penny papers |
| Residence: | 10 court Littles Lane, Wolverhampton |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | No |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Father's health very bad, can't use his left arm and has done no work for 2 years |
| Parents wages: | Father nothing; mother 4s or 5s a week at times – receive 4 loaves from the parish and have 5 other children, eldest 7 years old |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Nothing |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | John Owen, Snow Hill, Wolverhampton |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
20 June 1860 There is a very brief report of the crime in the Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser, Wednesday 20 June 1860, p.4, col.6: ROBBERY FROM A SHOP DOOR..- Martin M'Evoy [boy 175, surname spelled thus], Patrick Moran [boy 176], and Thomas Tunny [boy 177], three well-known young thieves, were convicted at the Borough Police Court, on Monday last, of stealing a coat from the shop door of William Henry Laxton, clothier, Darlington-street, and sentenced to twenty-one days' imprisonment each, to be afterwards sent for four years to a reformatory.
6 August 1860 Absconded after breakfast this morning. Supposed to have gone to Wolverhampton races.
16 October 1860 Apprehended at Wolverhampton and fetched back on 18 Oct.
17 October 1860 A brief account of his capture is in the Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser Wednesday 17 October 1860 p.4 col.6: RUNAWAYS FROM SALTLEY REFORMATORY. - Yesterday, at the Borough Police Office, two boys, named Joseph Evans [boy 134] and Patrick Moran, were charged with having absconded from the Reformatory School at Saltley. They had been apprehended in this town by Police Officer Marlow, and it appeared that Evans had been committed from West Bromwich and Moran from Wolverhampton. They were remanded until tomorrow (Thursday), in order that the authorities at the Reformatory might be communicated with.
3 August 1861 Attempted to abscond but was caught by the guardian in the lanes.
10 March 1862 Absconded with 5 others.
13 March 1862 Brought back from Willenhall.
15 June 1862 Absconded during the night with 211 [Henry Lawless] and 234 [George Billingham]
1 September 1862 Brought back from Wolverhampton
3 September 1862 There is a report of his being before the court after he was caught in the Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser Wednesday 3 September 1862 p.4 col.4: ABSCONDING FROM SALTLEY REFORMATORY.-At the Borough Police Court, Monday last, before the Mayor G. L. Underbill, Esq. and B. Hicklin, Esq.. Patrick Moran, a youth who had been committed from this town to .Saltley Reformatory, was charged with having absconded from that institution, Inspector Thomas said this was the third time he had absconded. It appears that when the prisoner saw Mr. Thomas coming to apprehend him made a bold attempt to escape, getting on to the house-top, running along the roof, and dropping at last a distance of ten feet into the yard of a Mr. Harriman. Here he very narrowly escaped injury. A bulldog was at large in the yard, and we are informed that Mr. Harriman states that if he had not been present when Moran descended into his yard the dog would very probably have torn the lad in pieces. The Bench made an order for the prisoner to be returned to the Reformatory.
17 February 1864 Licensed to work for Mr Ramsey, tailor, Stafford Street, Wolverhampton
January 1865 Not reconvicted but not in regular work
January 1866 Working at nail factory. Doing well.
January 1867 Working at nail factory. Doing well.
October 1867 Working at nail factory. Doing well.
27 December 1867 Working at a galvanizing works, Springfield, Wolverhampton. Good [character].
6 January 1868 Working at a galvanizing works, Springfield, Wolverhampton. Good.
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