| No, in Admissions Register: | 214 |
| Date of admission: | 25 March 1861 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | Slight |
| Complexion: | Pale |
| 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? | Yes |
| Particular marks: | Scars and moles on body |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 11 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Duddeston Mill Road, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | None - vagrant |
| 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: | |
| Date of sentence: | 12 March 1861 |
| Where convicted: | Moor Street, T Phillips and W Gough |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | No convictions but 6 or 7 times charged with sleeping out |
| Father's name: | John Jennings |
| Occupation: | Milkman and cabman |
| Residence: | 38 Mount Street, Birmingham |
| Mother's name: | Ann Jennings (stepmother) |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Own mother |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Father probably be ordered to pay 2s or 2s 6d per week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | G Glossop, Moor Street |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | T C S Kynnersley |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
13 March 1861 There is a report of his offence in the Birmingham Daily Post Saturday 13 March 1861 p.3 col.1: SLEEPING OUT. - A dirty-looking urchin, named John Jennings was charged with sleeping in an out-house in Duddeston Mill Road between eleven and twelve o'clock on the previous night. The prisoner, who has repeatedly figured in the dock for a similar offence, and who has been a source of great trouble to the police, was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment, with hard labour,, and after the expiration of that term to be sent to a Reformatory for five years. The Magistrates instructed the police to summon the prisoner's father to contribute towards the support of his son.
19 January 1864 Absconded. Brought back from High Wycombe June 29th
13 September 1865 Licensed
16 October 1865 Recalled
24 March 1866 Discharged on expiration of term
12 June [no year given] Apprehended at Birkenhead
March 1867 In prison
January 1868 Birmingham. Hanging about
June 1868 In Warwick Jail
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