| No. in Admissions Register: | 407 |
| Age: | 12 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 8 July 1869 5 years |
| Late residence: | Hanley |
| Parish he belongs to: | Hanley |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Errand boy |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Offence: | Stealing 5 shillings |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Mother's bad conduct |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 8 June 1869, Hanley Petty Sessions |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Mother's name: | Sarah Nixon |
| Occupation: | Brothel keeper |
| Parents dead? | Father |
| Survivor married again? | Not |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | Bad |
| Parents' wages: | Lives on her daughter's prostitution |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Parents address: | Mother and daughter at present in Stafford Gaol |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | R J Baker, Hanley |
| Person making this return: | - |
7 June 1869 There is a report of the theft, involving the whole family, in the Birmingham Daily Gazette Monday 7 June 1869 p.5 col.6: Margaret Nixon, Sarah Nixon, and George Nixon (mother, daughter, and son) were charged with having stolen 5s., the money of John Malkin. Prosecutor and a friend had gone from Leek to Newcastle, and started to walk home. At Hanley they refreshed themselves at the Red Lamp vaults. There the girl Nixon asked the prosecutor to treat her, and he did so. He and his friend then left, and were presently overtaken by the woman, who persuaded them to lodge at her house in Bostock Square that night. Arrived at the house, she showed them into two rooms, first taking a shilling from each for their beds. The beds turned out to be mere heaps of straw on the ground, with nothing but a blanket to each : but they accepted the position for which they had paid, and the prosecutor, taking off his clothes, turned in. Going to bed, however, was not going to sleep, and presently he perceived the boy Nixon enter the room, and fumble about his (prosecutor's) clothes. When the young gentleman had left the room, prosecutor rose and dressed himself, the result of his examination of the clothes being the discovery that all his money had been abstracted. Going downstairs he found only the woman, and she refused to restore the abstracted coin, though threatened with an appeal to the police. Police constable Wood was fetched, and to him the elder lady declared that there was not a penny in the house, but the officer was ungallant enough to doubt her word, and in some soap-suds he found a half-crown and two shillings. Prisoners were remanded. [They were all given 1 month in prison, plus 5 years for George at Saltley]
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