| No. in Admissions Register: | 231 |
| Date of admission: | 7 February 1862 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Sallow |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Hazel |
| 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? | Not apparent |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 11 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Wallbrook, Sedgley, Staffordshire |
| Parish he belongs to: | Sedgley |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Collier |
| Schools attended: | None |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing a loaf |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Neglect of parents and destitution |
| Date of sentence: | 8 January 1862 |
| Where convicted: | Bilston, before J M Bagnall and A Sparrow |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison, 4 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Several |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Mother's name: | Ann Bayley |
| Occupation: | Lives with one Richard Lowe |
| Residence: | The Bear, Wallbrook, Sedgley, Staffordshire |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Father dead |
| Survivor married again? | No |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Bad |
| Character of parents | Bad as to morality and honesty |
| Parents' wages: | None |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | No order made at present |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Hugh McCrea, Bilston |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | J W Hall, Bilston |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
7 August 1861 There is a report of his offence in the Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser Wednesday 7 August 1861 p.5 col.2: A YOUNG INCORRIGIBLE. A notorious little thief, named James Bailey [surname spelled thus], was brought up at the Police Court yesterday on a charge of having robbed the till of Mr. William Skeldon, Princes End. The offence was committed on the day previous, when the prisoner was caught in the act, Strange to say the lad had but just returned from prison, whither he had been sent on a charge by the same prosecutor for a simiiar offence. He was committed for a month's imprisonment and at the termination of that period to be confined in a Reformatory for five years.
6 February 1866 Discharged
5 January 1867 In prison
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