| No. in Admissions Register: | 196 |
| Date of admission: | 3 December 1860 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Dark |
| Hair colour: | Dark Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Smallpox |
| Particular marks: | - |
| Cutaneous disorder? | Yes except a scab from a hurt on the knee |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | Not apparent |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 15 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Canal Street, Wolverhampton |
| Parish to which he belongs: | Prescot, Lancaster |
| Customary work and mode of life: | In ironworks |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | A little |
| Writes: | A little |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing a coat |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Loss of parents and bad company |
| 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: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Both |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | H Segram, Wolverhampton |
| Relatives to communicate with: | Has a brother, Morris Darkin, at Barrat's Yard, Canal Street, Wolverhampton - |
| Person making this return: | Henry 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.
13 January 1862 Absconded with 171 (Thomas Coope)
18 January 1862 Apprehended at Oswestry with 171 and 175 (Martin McAvoy)
16 April 1863 Emigrated to Canada
1 August 1863 Had a letter from him but no address given
July 1866 Had a letter from him - doing well
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