| No. in Admissions Register: | 184 |
| Date of admission: | 14 September 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? | Yes |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | - |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | Not apparent |
| Subject to fits? | Uncertain |
| Age last birthday: | 9 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Prince's End, Sedgley |
| Parish to which he belongs: | Bilston |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Carrying meals to relatives at work |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | None |
| Cyphers: | None |
| General ability: | Inferior |
| Offence: | Stealing 4d from a till |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Idleness and absence of due restraint and teaching |
| Date of sentence: | 31 August 1860 |
| Where convicted: | Bilston |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison, 4 years detention at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | - |
| Father's name: | Thomas Lloyd |
| Occupation: | Labourer at ironworks |
| Residence: | Chapel Street, Bilston |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Drunken |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Mother |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Neither better nor worse than the ordinary run of people in the same class of life |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | 2s 6d or 2s 9d per day. Out of work often. |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Justices think 2s a week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Hugh McCrea, Superintendent of Police, Bilston |
| Relatives to communicate with: | William Lloyd, Abbot Street, Prince's End, box tin maker |
| Person making this return: | J W Hall, justices' clerk, Bilston |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
6 September 1860 The Reformatory Minute book records: 704. An application was received for admission of Samuel Lloyd, who appears to be subject to epileptic fits.
Resolved: That the case be referred to Lord Lichfield for enquiry and decision.
4 October 1860 The Minute Book noted that: 713. On reading Minute 704, Mr Humphreys reported that Lord Lichfield had investigated the case and that the boy had been admitted, there being apparently very little danger of the occurrence of epileptic fits.
10 December 1862 Ill of whooping cough
20 May 1864 Licensed to work for his brother at Coseley
23 June 1864 Brought back and reported a very naughty lad
14 September 1864 Discharged on expiration of term
16 January 1866 Heard of working at a forge, character good
September 1867 Called at the school - evidently doing very well.
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