| No. in Admissions Register: | 282 |
| Date of admission: | 16 August 1864 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Sallow |
| Hair colour: | Light brown |
| Eyes colour: | Greyish |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Tolerable |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | No |
| Particular marks: | - |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 14 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Spiceal Street, Uttoxeter |
| Parish he belongs to: | - |
| 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 a pocketful of green peas |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Entire absence of proper home, discipline, and example |
| Date of sentence: | 3 August 1864 |
| Where convicted: | Uttoxeter |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 14 days, 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None |
| Father's name: | Frederick Tunnicliffe |
| Occupation: | Sweep and pot seller |
| Residence: | Spiceal Street, Uttoxeter |
| Mother's name: | Ann Tunnicliffe |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Bad |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Unprincipled and brutal |
| Character of parents | Father been several times in prison, as also other members of the family |
| Parents' wages: | Uncertain |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s a week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Ellis Crisp, Uttoxeter |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | A A Flint, Clerk to the Justices |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
12 January 1861 There is a report of his father being summoned, with others, for employing boys to climb up chimneys in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 12 January 1861 p.7 col.4: John Scott, of Teanford. near Cheadle, Frederick Tunnicliffe and William Tunnicliffe, of Uttoxeter, and William Lammln and John O'Donnell of Cheadle, all chimney sweeps, were summoned by Peter Hall (an agent of the Association for the Prevention Climbing Boys) for employing hoys under 14 years of age to ascend chimneys for the purpose of sweeping them, contrary to law. Mr. Hall, however. abstained from pressing for convictions upon condition that the defendant Scott paid the sum of £1 to the Association for the Prevention of Climbing Boys and the costs. The magistrates, therefore, after cautioning the defendants, dismissed the charges against them. [The father and son were both summoned for breaking this law again, after the son's sojourn at Saltley, as reported in the Derby Mercury Wednesday 21 October 1868 p.6 col.4]
3 May 1862 His father was again in trouble with the law, as reported in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 3 May 1862 p.6 col.6: CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. - Frederick Tunnicliff, a chimney sweep, was charged with overdriving his horse, on the 23rd ult., and was fined in the mitigated penalty of 1s and 12s 6d costs. The defendant refused to pay the amount, and in default was committed to the house of correction for fourteen days.
25 February 1863 Again his father caught the attention of the police, as reported in the Derby Mercury Wednesday 5 February 1863 p.2 col.6: Frederick Tunnicliffe was summoned for passing through the toll-gate at Dove-bridge, near Uttoxeter, on the Derby road, without paying the toll and with the intention of defrauding the toll proprietor. To make the matter (which was clearly proved) worse, the defendant came before the bench in a state of semi-intoxication, and was taken care of in the lock-up for a short period on this account. The bench recommended defendant in the first instance to pay the costs and settle the matter, but this course was not to his taste, and the only alternative was a fine of 5s. and costs, which he paid.
24 October 1863 Late the same year, the father was again in trouble, as reported in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 24 October 1863 p.5 col.2: Frederick Tunnicliffe, hawker, of Uttoxeter, was charged with assaulting the wife of Mr. T. Allin, grocer, of Longton, in the street on the night previous. It appeared that Mr. Allin and his wife were passing along the street, and before them were the prisoner and two girls, when they overtook them prisoner struck Mrs. Allin a severe blow on the cheek without the slightest provocation. He was also charged with setting a dog at police-constable Shaw. The officer was on duty in Market-street, a little before twelve o'clock on the same night, when he saw the prisoner, who had a dog of the bull and terrier breed with him; he set it on the officer, who had to defend himself against it. He was sent to the house of correction with hard labour for one month for the first offence, and was fined 10s. and costs, or in default, one month to the house of correction for the second. [There are several other newspaper reports of the father's mideeds both before and after those shown here]
5 August 1864 The crime that took the boy to Saltley is reported in the Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal Friday 5 August 1864 p.8 col.5: Frederick Tunnicliffe, of Uttoxeter, sweep, about 14 years old. was brought before the Bench charged with stealing a quantity of peas from a field on the forest, the property of Mr. Ferneyhough. The prisoner was caught in the act at early hour on the 2nd inst. by police-constable Harvey. The well- known character of the prisoner, and that of his parents, and the consequent improbability of any improvement while subject to such contaminating influences induced the Bench to order him to be sent for three years to a reformatory after a preliminary imprisonment of 14 days at Stafford. Henry Clarke, a groom,
14 January 1867 Licensed
December 1868 Doing well at Uttoxeter [The Reformatory was ill-informed as in October, father and son were charged under the Climbing Boys' Act, the father for using a younger son, Afred, to climb up chimneys to clean them, and Frederick for assisting in this].
January 1870 Doing well at Uttoxeter [and again the Reformatory was advised erroneously of Tunnicliffe's progress, as he had been sentenced to three month's imprisonment for stealing soot]
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