| No. in Admissions Register: | 429 |
| Age: | 15 |
| Whence received: | Stafford County Prison |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Hazel |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 18 July 1870 3 years |
| Late residence: | Burton upon Trent |
| Parish he belongs to: | - |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Farm work |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing a watch |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 17 May 1870, Burton Petty Sessions, R S Tomlinson and W Worthington Esqs |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 2 months prison (hard labour), 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | John Holmes |
| Occupation: | Innkeeper, Burton on Trent |
| Mother's name: | Ann Holmes |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Honest, sober, not very good health |
| Parents' wages: | About 20s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Will not engage to pay anything, but ought to pay 2s per week |
| Parents address: | Wellington Arms, Burton upon Trent |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Benjamin Thomas Oswell, Burton upon Trent |
| Person making this return: | Henry Goodyear, Burton upon Trent |
21 May 1870 There is a report of the offence in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 21 May 1870 p.7 col.5: A JUVENILE THIEF.- James Holmes, a youth sixteen years of age, pleaded guilty to stealing, on the 12th instant, a silver Geneva watch, value £2 15s , the property of John Newbold, brewer's labourer, of Wellington-street. It appeared that the watch was missed shortly after the prisoner had been into prosecutor's house, and when he was arrested by Sergeant Gilbride the same night he denied it, but afterwards took the officer to his sister's house and found the watch in the kitchen, where he had secreted it without any person's knowledge. The police proved that in January, 1868, prisoner was locked up for several days and privately whipped for stealing a watch. He was sentenced to two months' imprisonment and three years' confinement in a Reformatory.
10 August 1870 A months later his father was summoned for non-payment of maintenance, as reported in the Derby Mercury Wednesday 10 august 1870 p.3 col.2: John Holmes, landlord of the Wellington Arms, Wellington Street was ordered to contribute 2s 6d per week towards the maintenance of his son, who is now an inmate of Saltley Reformatory.
17 July 1873 Discharged and returned home
5 March 1875 Called at the school. Is employed at Hill Farm near Acocks Green [now a suburb of Birmingham]
22 December 1890 Holmes visited the school today looking very respectable. He is married, has 4 children and is now living Hamlet(?) Green, near Sparkbrook and is a policeman, Worcestershire, Acocks Green.
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