| No. in Admissions Register: | 261 |
| Date of admission: | 21 September 1863 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fair |
| Hair colour: | Sandy |
| Eyes colour: | Dark |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Cowpox |
| Particular marks: | Burnt on feet |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 15 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Bennetts Fold, Wolverhampton |
| Parish he belongs to: | St Mark's [Wolverhampton?] |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Sweep |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Vagrancy |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad conduct of his mother |
| Date of sentence: | 20 August 1863 |
| Where convicted: | Wolverhampton, before C Perry and C B Mander |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison, 4 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None known |
| Father's name: | Barnet Wilkinson |
| Occupation: | Hinge maker |
| Residence: | Bennetts Fold, Wolverhampton |
| Mother's name: | Elizabeth Wilkinson |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Neglected by mother |
| Character of parents | Honest. Mother drunken. Health good |
| Parents' wages: | 10s a week and 11d per day pension |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | Captain Segrave, Wolverhampton |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
19 August 1863 There is a report of his remand hearing in the Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser Wednesday 19 August 1863 p.4 col.6: VERY SUSPICIOUS.- At the Borough Police Court yesterday, a ragged looking lad about fourteen years of age, named John Wilkinson, was placed in the dock, charged with having stolen a Jacket and waistcoat, the properly of man named Thomas Traner. in the Dudley-road. It appeared that a late hour on the previous night a man named Turner was passing up the Dudley-road, when he found the articles lying by the prosecutor's door. He picked them up and called out the prosecutor, who at once identified them as his property, and said ha had seen them all safe in the back premises the same evening. On looking about, tbe prisoner was found lying in an adjoining hay-loft covered with straw and as he could not give a satisfactory account for his appearance there, he was handed over to the custody of a policeman. The supposition was that he had first stolen the articles and then finding that they were almost worthless - the prosecutor valuing them at 6d. - he had placed them where they were found. In reply to the Bench, the prisoner denied the theft, end to other questions, said he left his home on Friday last, because his father did not give him enough to eat. Since then he had been wandering about the town obtaining a scanty livelihood by begging. The evidence was insufficient to sustain the charge of felony, but the Bench determined to remand the prisoner as a vagrant until tomorrow (Thursday), to secure the attendance his parents.
22 August 1863 There is a report of his sentence, with some minor differences in names, in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 22 August 1863 p.7 col.6: COMMITTAL TO A REFORMATORY AT THE JUVENILE'S REQUES. - John Wilkinson, aged 16, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, to be succeeded by four years' discipline in a reformatory. He had been found concealed in the loft of the premises of Mr. Trigger, marine-store dealer, of the Dudley-road. His mother stated that he was past her power of reclaiming, and made the burden of the younger children the greater for her. She offered to make another effort, however, in his behalf, but the young fellow himself thought there was more hope for him in a reformatory, and asked that he might be sent there.
22 June 1865 Emigrated to Canada
25 December 1866 Heard of at Wolverhampton. Doing well
27 December 1867 Heard of at Wolverhampton. Doing well as a sweep
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