| No. in Admissions Register: | 615 |
| Age: | 15 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | - |
| Hair colour: | - |
| Eyes colour: | - |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Date of admission: | 27 July 1878 |
| Late residence: | Tunstall |
| Parish he belongs to: | Wolstanton |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Baking |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing butter |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | parental nedlect |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 27 June 1878; H C Greenwood, stipendiary magistrate; Tunstall Police Court |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison, Stafford |
| Sentence: | 1 month in prison, 4 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | Isaac Cumberbatch |
| Occupation: | - |
| Mother's name: | Hannah Cumberbatch |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Both living, but have deserted the boy |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Bad |
| Character of parents | Bad |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Parents address: | Parents have absconded. The boy has been in Union Workhouse several years. Mother lives now (April 1882) at 147 High Street, Winsford, Cheshire |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | T Summerfield, Clerk, H M Prison, Stafford |
28 June 1878 There is a report of the offence in the Staffordshire Sentinel Friday 28 June 1878 p.3 col.5: A YOUNG PAUPER SENT TO AN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. - Isaac Cumberbatch, about thirteen years of age, was charged on remand with stealing a quantity ef butter the property of the Guardians of the Chell Workhouse, whilst an inmate of the institution. - It was proved that prisoner had been accustomed to stealing butter or anything else he could lay his hand upon. - The Magistrates committed him to gaol for one month, and ordered that at the expiration of that term he should be sent to an industrial school for four years.
3 May 1882 Cumberbatch licensed this day to a Mr W Locket, 147 High Street, Winsford, Cheshire
21(?) July 1882 Sentence expires
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