| No. in Admissions Register: | 503 |
| Age: | 12 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | Small scar top of forehead |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 25 March 1874 4 years |
| Late residence: | 6 court 6 house Wrentham Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | St Luke's, Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Harmonium making |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing 20s |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 12 March 1874, Birmingham Police Court, T C S Kynnersley |
| Where imprisoned: | Borough Prison, Birmingham |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | Three |
| Length: | 1) 21 days hard labour; 2) 14 days and birched; 3) 2 months and birched |
| For what: | 1) Stealing tobacco; 2) stealing a headstole(?); 3) stealing money |
| Father's name: | Thomas Vincent |
| Occupation: | House painter |
| Mother's name: | Rebecca Vincent |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Kind |
| Character of parents | Good |
| Parents' wages: | 28s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Not stated |
| Parents address: | 6 court 6 house Wrentham Street, Birmingham |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
13 March 1874 There is a short report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Post Friday 13 March 1874 p.6 col.5: STEALING A SOVEREIGN. -- Thomas Vincent (12), harmonium maker, Wrentham Street, was charged with stealing a sovereign, belonging to Edward Daniels, harmonium maker, Gooch Street. On Monday the prosecutor gave the prisoner a sovereign to buy goods with, but he kept it. The Stipendiary ordered him to be imprisoned for fourteen days, and to afterwards go to a Reformatory for five years.
9 December 1882 Vincent calls. Says he is married and somewhat short of work, Has a respectable appearance
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