| No. in Admissions Register: |
700 |
| Age: |
11 |
| Whence received: |
H M Prison Stafford |
| Description: |
|
| Complexion: |
Fresh |
| Hair colour: |
Light brown |
| Eyes colour: |
Blue |
| Visage: |
- |
| Particular marks: |
Burn mark on right side |
| State of health: |
Good |
| Able-bodied? |
Yes |
| Date of admission: |
8 May 1882 |
| Late residence: |
Taylor's Lane, West Bromwich, Staffordshire |
| Parish he belongs to: |
West Bromwich |
| Customary work and mode of life: |
In iron works |
| Whether illegitimate: |
Illegitimate |
| State of education: |
|
| Reads: |
Knows nothing |
| Writes: |
Knows nothing |
| Offence: |
Stealing 3s 6d |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: |
Not known |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: |
15 April 1882; G Heaton and W S Harding; West Bromwich Court of Summary Jurisdiction |
| Where imprisoned: |
H M Prison Stafford |
| Sentence: |
21 days in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: |
|
| Number: |
None |
| Length: |
- |
| For what: |
- |
| Father's name: |
Benjamin Morris |
| Occupation: |
Puddler |
| Mother's name: |
Ann Morris |
| Occupation: |
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|
| Parents dead? |
Neither |
| Survivor married again? |
- |
| Parents' treatment of child: |
Good |
| Character of parents |
Honest, sober, and health good |
| Parents' wages: |
Father ruptured and unable to work except a few days now and then |
| Amount parents agree to pay: |
Is unable to make an offer. He states that he has 3 other smaller children and his wife is near her confinement of the fourth. The greatest poverty exists in the house. It would be distressing to have to enforce payment |
| Parents address: |
Benjamin Morris, Taylors Lane, West Bromwich |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): |
Thomas Whitehurst, Superintendent of Police, West Bromwich |
| Person making this return: |
T Whitehurst, Superintendent of Police, West Bromwich, 28 April 1882 |