| No. in Admissions Register: | 626 |
| Age: | 14 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission: | 2 January 1879 |
| Late residence: | Newcastle under Lyme |
| Parish he belongs to: | Newcastle under Lyme |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Rope making |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing fowls |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 2 December 1879 [error for 1878]; G Ashworth and J Alcock; Newcastle under Lyme Petty Sessions |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford Gaol |
| Sentence: | 1 month hard labour in prison, 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 1 |
| Length: | 48 hours |
| For what: | Stealing sweets |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Mother's name: | Sarah Guildford |
| Occupation: | Charwoman |
| Parents dead? | Father |
| Survivor married again? | No |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Honest, sober, health not good |
| Parents' wages: | Not known |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Parents address: | Mortimore Street, Ashfield, Newcastle |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
3 December 1878 There is a report of his offence (with his name spelled as Gilford) in the Staffordshire Sentinel Tuesday 3 December 1878 p.4 col.1: CHARGE OF STEALING FOWLS. - George Gilford and William Stubbs, small boys, were charged with having stolen a fowl, the prosecutor being Charles Averill. - The prisoners took the fowl from a pen in the yard of Averill, a labourer, at Keele; and they were met by P. C. Salt with it in their possession. - There was another charge against the prisoners which was not gone into. - Stubbs committed to gaol for a month. Gilford, who had been twice previously convicted, was committed to gaol for one month and a reformatory for three years.
25 May 1881 Guildford writes a letter in reply to mine. He states that it gave him pleasure to receive my letter. He also states that Mr Humphreys had not told him of his intention of leaving. See letter endorsed 626 [not attached to Admissions Register]
7 October Guilfford was again in trouble with the law, at the Newcastle under Lyme Petty Sessions, as reported in the Staffordshire Sentinel Friday 7 October 1881 p.3 col.6: CHARGE OF STEALING PIGEONS. - George Gilford, a youth, living in Upper Green, was charged with stealing, on the 15th inst , four pigeons, the property of a man named William Davis. - The evidence, which was only sufficient to justify a remand, was to the effect that on Thursday morning, about seven o'clock, prisoner went to the house of a man named Cooke and offered to him the pigeons for sale, saying he had brought them from a Mr. West, who lived at Upper Green, and who desired to sell them. Cooke did not deem this explanation satisfactory, and, detaining the pigeons, told prisoner to go and fetch Mr. West. Prisoner, however, did not do this, and subsequently Cooke handed the pigeons over to the police, who discovered that they had been stolen from a pigeon cote belonging to the man Davis. - The Bench remanded the prisoner in custody until Monday.
1 January 1882 Sentence expires
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