| No. in Admissions Register: | 298 |
| Date of admission: | 10 April 1865 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Light 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? | Cowpox |
| Particular marks: | Burn on breast and cut on each temple |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | Not apparent |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 13 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Sedgley |
| Parish he belongs to: | Sedgley |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Helping iron rollers |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing 2s from a drawer |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | The lock out |
| Date of sentence: | 27 March 1865 |
| Where convicted: | Willenhall before Rev G H Fisher and R D Gough |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 14 days, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None |
| Father's name: | Solomon Faulk |
| Occupation: | Iron worker |
| Residence: | Cinder Hill, Sedgley, Staffordshire |
| Mother's name: | Ann Faulk |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Honest, but given to drink |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | No |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Honest and in good health, but very poor |
| Parents' wages: | Can earn 20s a week when in work |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Ought to pay at least 1s a week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Hugh McCrea, Bilston |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
29 March 1865 There is a short report of the crime in the Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Gazette Wednesday 29 March 1865 p.7 col.3: COMMITTAL TO A REFORMATORY.- At the Police Court, on Monday, before the Rev. G. H. Fisher and R. D. Gough, Esq., a lad named Faulkner [surname given as thus], about thirteen years of age, was charged with having stolen the sum of 2s belonging to James Francis, shopkeeper, Lower Lichfield-street. It seems that the prosecutor caught the lad just as he had taken a two-shilling piece from the shop till; he at once confessed his guilt, and asked to be forgiven, but a policeman was sent for, and he was given into custody. From what was stated to the Bench they decided to commit him to prison for the offence, for the space of fourteen days, and afterwards to be sent to a reformatory school for three years.
14 January 1869 Licensed
9 April 1870 Discharged
January 1871 Heard of doing well
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