Saltley Reformatory Inmates


Cecil Wray

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No. in Admissions Register: 601
Age: 11
Whence received: Stafford County Prison
Description:  
Complexion: Fresh
Hair colour: Brown
Eyes colour: Light blue
Visage: -
Particular marks: Mole back of neck
State of health: -
Able-bodied? -
Date of admission: 15 April 1878
Late residence: Walsall
Parish he belongs to: Walsall
Customary work and mode of life: Errand boy
Whether illegitimate: -
State of education:  
Reads: Imperfectly
Writes: Imperfectly
Offence: Stealing tobacco
Circumstances which may have led to it: -
Date of sentence, by whom and court: 15 March 1878; W H Rodgers and J Loveridge; Bilston Petty Sessions
Where imprisoned: Stafford Prison
Sentence: 1 month in prison, 5 years at Saltley
Previous committals:  
Number: 1
Length: 10 days
For what: Garden robbing
Father's name: John Tisdale (stepfather)
Occupation: tailor
Mother's name: -
Occupation: -
Parents dead? Father
Survivor married again? Yes
Parents' treatment of child: Not very good
Character of parents Honest, not very sober, good health
Parents' wages: About 15s per week. Wife earns a little more with mangle. 8 children
Amount parents agree to pay: 1s
Parents address: Walsall
Superintendent of police (to collect payments): Hugh McCrea, Chief Superintendent of Police, Bilston, Staffordshire
Person making this return: John william Hall, Justices' Clerk, Bilston, 5 April 1878

Notes:

28 February 1882 Discharged by order of the Home Secretary as he is about to emigrate to New South Wales

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