| No. in Admissions Register: | 441 |
| Age: | 11 |
| Whence received: | Knutsford House of Correction |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | - |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | Scar from burn inside left hand |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 4 April 1871 5 years |
| Late residence: | Shavington cum Gresty, Cheshire |
| Parish he belongs to: | Nantwich |
| Customary work and mode of life: | No occupation |
| Whether illegitimate: | Boy says not |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing £1 14s |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 1 March 1871, Nantwich Petty Sessions,Rev. J Folliott and R Johnson |
| Where imprisoned: | Knutsford |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | Frank Yeomans |
| Occupation: | Hawker |
| Mother's name: | Dead |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Not known |
| Character of parents | Not known |
| Parents' wages: | Not known |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | County to pay 1s 6d |
| Parents address: | Shavington cum Gresty, Cheshire |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Mr Laxton, Nantwich |
| Person making this return: | - |
4 March 1871 There is a report of the original crime in the Nantwich Guardian Saturday 4 March 1871 p.5 col.2: A YOUNG HOPEFUL ROBBING HIS FATHER.- John Yeomans, of Shavington, near Nantwich, a lad between ten and eleven years of age, was charged with stealing £1 14s. belonging to his father Francis Yeomans.- Prosecutor who is blind, said he was a labourer living at Shavington. On Saturday morning he and his son Eli who led him about went out. In a purse upstairs in a box (which was placed in a large box) which he kept locked, were one sovereign and 14 shillings in silver, which he had left the previous night. The prisoner came out of the house the same time as he and son Eli, and he sent prisoner to pick a barrow of manure, telling him when he had done so to come to Ednah Cooke's. The prisoner never came, and upon sending his son Eli up to the house between seven and eight, when he came back he said the purse was gone.-Eli Yeomans, said tliat when he went home to look for his brother, he unlocked the door and was winding up the window blind. He noticed that a large pane in the window had been broken. He got his father's keys and went upstairs and found the purse there but no money in it.-P.C. Henry Pierce of Wybunbury said prosecutor came to him about nine o'clock on the same day. About noon he found the prisoner at Haslington, and asked him where he was going and he replied "to Wheelock." On searching prisoner he found 6s. 7½d. on him; he had on a new cap, jacket, waistcoat and boots. Prisoner said he bought the cap at Stafford's, the boots at Boulton's, and the jacket and muffler at Maybury's. At Stafford's the witness found prisoner had offered a sovereign. - Mrs. Stafford and Mrs. Duncan were called and corroborated the latter part of Pierce's statement. - The prisoner was sentenced to one months' hard labour and at the expiration of that term to be sent to a reformatory for five years.
11 March 1875 Licensed to work for Mr Paxton, Lea Hall, Nantwich
20 October 1875 Heard of doing well at same place
1 December 1875 Heard of doing well at same place
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