| No. in Admissions Register: | 433 |
| Age: | 11 |
| Whence received: | Stafford County Prison |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Dark |
| Hair colour: | Dark brown |
| Eyes colour: | Hazel |
| Visage: | Long |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 14 October 1870 4 years |
| Late residence: | Leek, Staffordshire |
| Parish he belongs to: | Leek |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Silk worker |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Offence: | Stealing plums |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 14 September 1870, Leek Petty Sessions, Joshua Brough and John Brough |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison (hard labour), 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | Isaac Tomkinson |
| Occupation: | Slater |
| Mother's name: | Jane Tomkinson |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Not good – father drunken |
| Character of parents | Nothing known against them |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Probably 1s per week |
| Parents address: | Isaac Tomkinson, slater, Cross Street, Leek |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
17 September 1870 There is a short report of the offence in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 17 September 1870 p.7 col.3: STEALING PLUMS.-Elijah Biddulph and Henry Tomkinson were charged with stealing plums from trees belonging to Mr. Shaw, of Spring Cottage. Biddulph was fined 5s. 3d. and costs, in default fourteen days' imprisonment. Tomkinson was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, and afterwards to be sent to a reformatory for three years.
4 June 1876 In a letter to the school from C Tipper [boy 469] it says …I have seen W Smith and H Tomkinson too… Tomkinson is labouring for a bricklayer…
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