| No. in Admissions Register: | 188 |
| Date of admission: | 26 October 1860 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | Slight |
| Complexion: | Fair |
| 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? | Cowpox |
| Particular marks: | None |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 15 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Willenhall |
| Parish to which he belongs: | Willenhall |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Keysmith |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing clothes |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Unknown |
| Date of sentence: | 6 October 1860 |
| Where convicted: | Rushall |
| Where imprisoned: | Walsall Gaol |
| Sentence: | 21 days prison, 5 years detention at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Absconding from service (21 days); absconding from service (3 days [21 written above]); stealing {14 days and whipping) |
| Father's name: | Dead |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Mother's name: | Dead |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay | |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | W Cater, Police Officer, Walsall |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | Samuel Wilkinson, Junior Clerk to the Justices |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
13 October 1860 There is a brief report on his crime in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 13 October 1860 p.7 col.7: George Baker, of Willenhall, an apprentice of Mr Isaac Taylor, key manufacturer, was ordered to be imprisoned for twenty-one days, and subsequently sent to a reformatory for three years, for stealing his fellow apprentice's clothing and pawning it in Walsall. He had been three times imprisoned and twice whipped before.
5 June 1862 Emigrated to Canada
14 August 1862 Pulley [boy 181] wrote saying Baker is working for the same master as he is, Mr Walker, Eglinton, Toronto, weeding chicory.
7 September 1864 Broadbent [boy 197] says he saw Baker as a gentleman's servant. Doing well.
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