Saltley Reformatory Inmates


Evan Williams

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No. in Admissions Register: 541
Age: 13
Whence received: Birmingham Borough Prison
Description:  
Complexion: Fresh
Hair colour: Brown
Eyes colour: Grey
Visage: -
Particular marks: Scar on each elbow
State of health: Good
Able-bodied? -
Date of admission and term: 24 January 1876 4 years
Late residence: Penn Street Industrial School, Birmingham
Parish he belongs to: -
Customary work and mode of life: -
Whether illegitimate: -
State of education:  
Reads: Imperfectly
Writes: Imperfectly
Offence: Beating the Superintendent of Penn Street School
Circumstances which may have led to it: -
Date of sentence, by who and court: 11 January 1876, Birmingham Police Court, T C S Kynnersley
Where imprisoned: Birmingham Borough Prison
Sentence: 14 days prison (hard labour), 4 years at Saltley
Previous committals:  
Number: To Penn Street Industrial School
Length: -
For what: -
Father's name: Joseph Williams
Occupation: Blacksmith
Mother's name: stepmother
Occupation: -
Parents dead? Own mother
Survivor married again? Yes
Parents' treatment of child: -
Character of parents -
Parents' wages: -
Amount parents agree to pay: -
Parents address: 10 Potter Street, Birmingham
Superintendent of police (to collect payments): G Glossop
Person making this return: -

Notes:

12 December 1882 Calls and says he has been a month in the General Hospital and has only just procured work this day

7 October 1883 Evan Williams calls and lives in Price Street, Birmingham

9 February 1888 Evan Williams this day visited the school. Is a very unhealthy lad; has done no work (brass caster) for eighteen months, his eyes being very weak. He has been in the General Hospital twice since he left the School. Lives at 14 court 1 house Smith Street, Hockley, Birmingham

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