Saltley Reformatory Inmates


Luke Gold

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No. in Admissions Register: 270
Date of admission: 25 January 1864
Whence received: Stafford Prison
By whom brought: -
On what terms: -
Friends interested in him: -
Description:  
Height: -
Figure: -
Complexion: Fresh
Hair colour: Dark brown
Eyes colour: Hazel
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: Birthmark outside right leg
Cutaneous disorder?  
Scrofulous or consumptive? No
Subject to fits? Not
Age last birthday: 12
Illegitimate? -
Birthday: -
Birth place: -
Has resided: Kinver
Parish he belongs to: Kinver
Customary work and mode of life: -
Schools attended: Enville
By whom and where employed: -
State of education:  
Reads: Imperfectly
Writes: Imperfectly
Cyphers: -
General ability: -
Offence: House breaking
Circumstances which may have led to it: Loss of parents and having no home
Date of sentence: 3 January 1864
Where convicted: Stafford Quarter Sessions
Who prosecuted: -
Where imprisoned: -
Sentence: 21 days, 3 years at Saltley
Previous committals and convictions: None
Father's name: James Pleavey (stepfather)
Occupation: -
Residence: The Woodhouse, near Kidderminster
Mother's name: Sarah Pleavey
Occupation: -
Residence: -
Father's character: -
Mother's character: -
Parents dead? -
Survivor married again? Not known
Parents' treatment of child: Not known
Character of parents Not known
Parents' wages: -
Amount parents agree to pay: -
Superintendent of police (to collect payments): -
Relatives to communicate with: -
Person making this return: Mr Fulford
Estimate of character on admission: -
Character on discharge: -
When and how left the Reformatory: -

Notes:

9 January 1864 There is a brief report of the crime in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 9 January 1864 p.6 col.7: LUKE GOLD, 12. labourer, pleaded guilty to a charge of breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Samuel Cope, at Kinfare, and stealing therein the sum 1s 7d., one pencil, one handkerchief, and other articles. The prisoner was sentenced to 21 days' imprisonment, and was ordered to be afterwards confined in a reformatory for three years.

18 May 1866 Licensed to work for Mr Gover, Woodlands Farm, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire

June 1867 Heard of doing well

25 December 1867 Heard of doing well. "Much improved"

May 1868 Kinver. Doing well

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