| No. in Admissions Register: | 340 |
| Date of admission: | 4 August 1866 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Light brown |
| Eyes colour: | Blue |
| 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: | Cut on wrist, moles near left armpit and fore left collar bone |
| Cutaneous disorder? | Warts |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | Not |
| Subject to fits? | Not |
| Age last birthday: | 9 |
| Illegitimate? | Yes |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Gnosall, Staffordshire |
| Parish he belongs to: | |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Fieldwork – generally wandered about pilfering |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Nil |
| Writes: | Nil |
| Cyphers: | Nil |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing money |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Neglect of mother |
| Date of sentence: | 14 July 1866 |
| Where convicted: | Stafford Petty Sessions before W Hanson and J Cruso |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 21 days prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Mother's name: | Sarah Adderley |
| Occupation: | Single woman |
| Residence: | Gnosall, Staffordshire |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | The grandfather will not allow him with his mother, so he has wandered about unprotected |
| Character of parents | Good in these respects [honesty, sobriety, and health] but has two other illegitimate children |
| Parents' wages: | No regular work |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Not able to pay |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Superintendent Adams, Stafford |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | W Fulford, Governor, Stafford County Prison |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
21 July 1866 There is a report of the crime in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 21 July 1866 p.7 col.3: THEFT BY A YOUTH.- George Adderley. a boy nine years of age, was charged with stealing a purse. £2. and a silver watch, the property of William Fowell, and a gold watchguard and a jacket the property of Sarah Ann Hill, at Gnosall. on the 11th inst. The prisoner pleaded guilty to stealing all the articles except the watch, of which he denied all knowledge. It appeared that he got into the house during the absence of the inmates and stole the property in question, which hid in various places. The police stated that the prisoner was an illegitimate child and that his mother lived with her father, who refused to have anything to do with the lad. He had therefore wandered about, sleeping in outhouses and other places. The Bench ordered him to be imprisoned for twenty-one days, and afterwards sent to a reformat>ry for five years. They severely censured the mother for her disgraceful neglect of the child.
1 June 1871 Emigrated to Canada
13 September 1871 Wrote saying he is settled comfortably
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