| No. in Admissions Register: | 203 |
| Date of admission: | 26 January 1861 |
| Whence received: | Walsall Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Light brown |
| Eyes colour: | Blue |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Vaccinated |
| Particular marks: | - |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 14 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | In George Hotel Yard, Walsall |
| Parish he belongs to: | Walsall |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Vagrant |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing an iron weight |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Parental neglect |
| Date of sentence: | 14 January 1861 |
| Where convicted: | Walsall Police Court |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | Walsall Gaol |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison, 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions | three (larceny and vagrancy) |
| Father's name: | James Parker |
| Occupation: | Waiter |
| Residence: | George Hotel Yard, Walsall |
| Mother's name: | Ann Parker |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Drunken |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Neglected |
| Character of parents | Indifferent |
| Parents' wages: | 13s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s a week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | J W Cater, Police Officer, Walsall |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | J W Cater, Police Officer, Walsall |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
[Brother to James Parker boy [187] - to see record click here ]
8 December 1860 There is a short report of a previous offence in the Walsall Free Press and General Advertiser Saturday 8 December 1860 p.4 col.2: ANOTHER OF THE PARKERS. - Mr William Miller charged a small boy named Henry Parker with wilfully breaking his window and stealing therefrom a pork pie. The boy pleaded guilty, and was ordered to be imprisoned for seven days in the borough's gaol. This lad is brother to Parker who was sent for three years to a reformatory some time ago.
19 January 1861 There is a report of his offence in the Walsall Free Press and General Advertiser Saturday 19 January 1861 p.4 cols.3-4: WHAT'S TO BE DONE WITH THE CHILDREN? - Henry Parker, John Green, Henry Carpenter, and James Baker, were each charged with stealing a weight, the property of Mr. Clerk. Prisoners were all boys, the oldest not being, apparently, more than fifteen years of age, whilst the youngest might pass for nine or ten. Mr. Clerk was sworn, and deposed to being told by police constable Ward, on Saturday last that he had lost a weight. He could swear to the weight produced. It was a half a pound weight. Within the last month he had lost several weights. Ward, deposed that on Saturday evening, about six o'clock, he was on. duty in Goodall Street, when he received information that the prisoners had stolen a weight. He took them into custody, and on the way to the police station one of them gave him the weight, and all of them acknowledged participating in the theft. He then informed Mr Clerk of the robbery. Mr. Cater stated that Carpenter and Parker, especially the latter, were known to the police. He also spoke to the great annoyance and loss which the depredations of such lads as those in the dock, caused to the shopkeepers. Parker's brother was now in Saltley Reformatory. The parents of Green, Carpenter, and Baker wished their children sent to a reformatory, but were unable to pay for them. The Bench dismissed Baker, and the others were remanded until Thursday to give time for enquiries to be made with a view to their admission into a reformatory.
In the same newspaper, same page col.4, there is a follow-up: WHAT IS DONE WITH THE CHILDREN.- Henry Parker, John Green, and Henry Carpenter, remanded from Monday last, were again brought up, and formally sentenced to fourteen days imprisonment, after which Parker and Carpenter to be sent to the Saltley Reformatory for three years, and Green for the same period to the school frigate, lying off Liverpool [the Akbar training ship]; the parents of each to pay 1s. per week towards the maintenance of the children.
15 December 1862 Allowed to go home a fortnight, not being well
23 June 1863 Doctor certified him to be in constitutional bad health and advised his return to his friends. He was let out on licence to work for his father
4 October 1863 Received a good report from Mr Cater
December 1866 Still doing well
January 1868 On merchant service
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