| No. in Admissions Register: | 211 |
| Date of admission: | 15 March 1861 |
| Whence received: | Walsall 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? | Vaccinated |
| Particular marks: | - |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 13 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Bee Hive Yard, Lower Rushall Street, Walsall |
| Parish he belongs to: | Walsall |
| Customary work and mode of life: | At gas works |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| General ability: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Vagrancy |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Neglect and drunken habits of father |
| Date of sentence: | 28 February 1861 |
| Where convicted: | Walsall Police Court |
| Who prosecuted: | H Brace , J Day, Esqs |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison, 2 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Larceny (3 days) |
| Father's name: | Michael McCahe (stepfather) |
| Occupation: | Tailor |
| Residence: | Beehive Yard, Lower Rushall Street, Walsall |
| Mother's name: | Margaret McCahe |
| Occupation: | Tailoress |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Father |
| Survivor married again? | Mother remarried to Michael McCahe, tailor |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | Mother honest and hard-working, stepfather drunken |
| Parents' wages: | 30s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 2s per week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | J W Cater, Police Officer, Walsall |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
2 March 1861 There is a report of his offence in the Walsall Free Press and General Advertiser Saturday 2 March 1861 p.4 col.2: THE CHILDREN AGAIN.- Henry Lawley [surname spelled thus] and John Holliday [boy 210], two boys, were charged by Police Constable No. 17, with sleeping in Mr. Crapper's lime kiln, last night. The constable stated that he found the lads asleep in the dangerous position mentioned, with their hair singed and clothes scorched. Lawley's mother was in court, and stated that she had been a widow for some years, and that her son was a very bad boy, who ran away from home without any cause, and preferred idling about the country to working. Holliday's mother was sent for, and she gave a similar account of her son; it being perfectly evident that both lads had acquired such an amount of vice as to destroy everything like parental influence upon them. The Bench remanded the boys till Thursday, and ordered the chief constable to make application, in the mean time, for their admission into the Saltley Reformatory.
15 June 1862 Absconded in the night with 176 [Patrick Moran] and 234 [George Billingham]
3 December 1862 Gave himself up to the police and came back voluntarily to the school
28 June 1863 Emigrated to Canada
7 September 1863 Broadbent [boy 197] says he was going on well in service
October 1865 Everill [boy 221] reports him in the Federal Army
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