| No. in Admissions Register: | 195 |
| Date of admission: | 3 December 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? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Cowpox |
| Particular marks: | - |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | Submaxiliary glands large |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 14 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Jeddo Street, Wolverhampton |
| Parish to which he belongs: | St Pauls |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Locksmith |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | None |
| Writes: | None |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing a coat |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Mother's bad conduct |
| Date of sentence: | 3 November 1860 |
| Where convicted: | Wolverhampton |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison, 4 years detention at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | - |
| Father's name: | Samuel Neville |
| Occupation: | Brass locksmith |
| Residence: | At J Watts', Church Lane, Wolverhampton |
| Mother's name: | Susannah Neville |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | At Robert Pember's, Poultney Street, Wolverhampton |
| Father's character: | Good |
| Mother's character: | Bad – living in adultery |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good by father, very bad by mother |
| Character of parents | Father, honest, sober, and healthy but is getting old and decrepit. Mother drunken and profligate |
| Parents' wages: | 8s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | None |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | H Segram, Wolverhampton |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | H Segram, Wolverhampton |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
7 November 1860 There is a short report of his offence in the Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser Wednesday 7 November 1860 p.6 col.4: JUVENILE DELINQUENTS.-Four incorrigibles, named Matthew Moran, Matthew Neville [boy 195], Michael Darkin [boy 196], and Thomas Broadbent [197] were charged with stealing an overcoat belonging to David Williams. Prosecutor had left the coat in his cart in Exchange Street, from whence it was stolen by the prisoners. They were each committed for one month, Moran to be subsequently detained four years in the reformatory ship Akbar, Liverpool, and the others to be sent for a similar period to the Saltley Reformatory.
10 June 1861 Absconded
12 June 1861 Brought back from Wolverhampton
10 October 1863 Taken to Birkenhead to emigrate to Sydney by the Erin go Bragh
October 1866 Wrote from Queensland - doing well - but gave no address
February 1870 Heard of doing well, Summer Island, McCleay River, Sydney:
6 Poultney Street, Wolverhampton, 28 Feb 1870
Dear Sir, my son has written to me and requested me to send you his address. This letter I received Saturday last. . He seems pretty attached to you. His address is: Mr Matthew Neville, c/o Mr William Jones, Summer Island, McClay River, Sydney, New South Wales. With my best respects, I am respectfully yours, Susannah Neville.
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