Saltley Reformatory Inmates

Thomas Welch

No. in Admissions Register:	264
Date of admission:	29 October 1863
Whence received:	Birmingham
By whom brought:	-
On what terms:	-
Friends interested in him:	-
Description:
Height:	-
Figure:	-
Complexion:	Fresh
Hair colour:	Brown
Eyes colour:	Grey
Perfect vision?	Yes
State of health:	Good
Able-bodied?	Yes
Sound intellect?	Yes
Use of all limbs?	Yes
Had cow or small pox?	Not protected but punctured by cowpox
Particular marks:	Large scar front right shoulder
Cutaneous disorder?	Yes
Scrofulous or consumptive?	No
Subject to fits?	No
Age last birthday:	12
Illegitimate?	-
Birthday:	-
Birth place:	-
Has resided:	5 court Bow Street, Birmingham
Parish he belongs to:	Birmingham
Customary work and mode of life:	-
Schools attended:	-
By whom and where employed:	-
State of education:
Reads:	Not at all
Writes:	Not at all
Cyphers:	-
General ability:	-
Offence:	Stealing £4
Circumstances which may have led to it:	Not known
Date of sentence:	16 October 1863
Where convicted:	Moor Street, before T C S Kynnersley
Who prosecuted:	-
Where imprisoned:	-
Sentence:	14 days prison, 5 years at Saltley
Previous committals and convictions:	None
Father's name:	James Welch
Occupation:	Labourer
Residence:	5 court Bow Street, Birmingham
Mother's name:	Ellen Welch
Occupation:	Mop maker
Residence:	-
Father's character:	-
Mother's character:	-
Parents dead?	Neither
Survivor married again?	-
Parents' treatment of child:	Good
Character of parents	-
Parents' wages:	15s per week
Amount parents agree to pay:	Not exceeding 1s per week
Superintendent of police (to collect payments):	G Glossop
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:	-

Notes:

17 October 1863 There is a report of his crime in the Birmingham Journal Saturday 17 October 1863 p.7 col.7: JUVENILE THIEVES.-Three lads, aged respectively twelve, ten, and thirteen years, named Thomas Welch, blacksmith, residing in Bow Street, Richard Merriday, a sweep, living in Windmill Street, and Alfred Thomlinson, schoolboy, residing in Exeter Row, were charged with having stolen four sovereigns from the shop of William Bradbury, ironmonger, 213, High Street, Deritend. It appeared from the evidence that at about one o'clock on the previous day the prosecutor saw the prisoner Welch loitering about his shop door. He left the shop, and on returning a few minutes afterwards missed the money from the till in the shop. He immediately gave information of what had occurred to the police, and in the evening of the same day Detective-sergeant Seal apprehended the three lads, who were in company with each other at the Theatre Royal, New Street. They told him that Welch went into the shop and stole the money while the other two prisoners remained outside in the street. Having got possession of the money, they bought sweetmeats, plum pudding, and other eatables, during the afternoon, and in the evening Welch paid for the three of them to go to see the 'Ticket-of-Leave Man" performed at the Theatre. On taking them to the station Seal found In the possession of the prisoner Welch a watch and a sum money, and in the pocket of Merriday the sum of £1 12s. 8d, which the latter stated Welch had given to him to take charge of. Nothing was found upon Thomlinson. Welch, who bad been previously convicted, was ordered to be imprisoned for fourteen days, and at the expiration of that term to be sent to a Reformatory School for five years. The other two were discharged with a caution.

17 January 1866 Absconded

29 January 1867 Licensed

28 October 1868 Discharged

September 1869 In Birmingham. Doing well

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