| No. in Admissions Register: | 417 |
| Age: | 9 |
| 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: | 4 December 1869 - |
| Late residence: | Oldbury |
| Parish he belongs to: | Oldbury |
| Customary work and mode of life: | None |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Offence: | Stealing 4s 9d |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Parents' neglect |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 13 November 1869, West Bromwich Petty Sessions, P Kenrick and J A Kenrick Esqs |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 21 days prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 1 |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | Vagrancy |
| Father's name: | Thomas Morgan |
| Occupation: | |
| Mother's name: | Mary Morgan |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Indifferent |
| Character of parents | Not known |
| Parents' wages: | Irregular – now 1s per day |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Nothing |
| Parents address: | Oldbury Green |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Superintendent Woollaston, West Bromwich |
| Person making this return: | - |
15 November 1869 There is a report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Gazette Monday 15 November 1869 p.8 col.3: AN INCORRIGIBLE YOUTH.- At the West Bromwich Police Court, on Saturday, a youth named John Morgan, son of a coach trimmer of that name, living at Oldbury Green, was convicted of having stolen 4s. 9d. from the till of Henry Bradsworth's greengrocer's shop, Walsall Street, West Bromwich, on the previous Tuesday. Mr. Woollaston, superintendent of the police, said that the lad had been in custody on a previous occasion, when he was sentenced to a day's imprisonment, and to be whipped. He considered him a very clever thief. -The magistrates said the prisoner would be committed twenty-one days, and afterwards sent to a Reformatory for six years.
13 April 1874 Licensed to work at Grice's Forge, Spon Lane, Smethwick. Lives at 88 Birmingham Street, Oldbury
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