| No. in Admissions Register: | 624 |
| Age: | 13 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Light brown |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | Both little fingers crooked |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Date of admission: | 30 October 1878 |
| Late residence: | Stoke upon Trent |
| Parish he belongs to: | Stoke upon Trent |
| Customary work and mode of life: | None |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing money |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 30 September 1878; H C Greenwood |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Stafford |
| Sentence: | 1 month in prison, 4 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 1 |
| Length: | Fined 10s and costs or 14 days in default |
| For what: | Stealing pigeons |
| Father's name: | George Wilshaw |
| Occupation: | Horse dealer |
| Mother's name: | Emily Wilshaw (step-mother) |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Mother dead |
| Survivor married again? | yes |
| Parents' treatment of child: | good |
| Character of parents | Honest, sober, health good |
| Parents' wages: | 20s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | About 1s 6d |
| Parents address: | George Wilshaw, horse dealer, Sandy Fold, Tunstall |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Superintendent George Hirston, Tuntall |
| Person making this return: | - |
2 October 1878 There is a short report of his offence in the Birmingham Daily Post Wednesday 2 October 1878 p.8 col.4: AN EARLY START. - At Hanley Stipendiary Police Court, on Monday, Thomas Wilshaw, a lad of 14, was charged with stealing £10. 5s. belonging to his brother, George Wilshaw, horse dealer, of Stoke, with whom he lived. The lad was left in charge of the house on Saturday, and abstracted the money from a small clock in an upstairs room. On being apprehended the next day, he had in his possession £8. 4s. and a watch and chain. The lad pleaded guilty, and was sent to gaol for a month, and ordered at the expiration of that time to be sent to reformatory for five years.
2 July 1881 3 strokes on the hand and 2 days in the cell on the cell diet for stealing bread from the bread hay
1 July 1882 Sent to his brother 416 Spilgate Street, Stoke
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