Saltley Reformatory Inmates


John Brooks

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No. in Admissions Register: 61
Date of admission: 18 January 1855
Weekly payments: -
Age: 15
Education: Inferior
Previous employment: Painter and glazier
Crimes, how often and in what prison: First offence
Training in reformatory: 9 May 1857
When left reformatory: -
Parentage and family: Father and mother living
Residence: 14 Lombard St [Birmingham]
Trade of father: Screw maker
With whom the boy is placed: -
Address: -
Trade: -

Notes:

[No date]  Committed by Mr Recorder Hill at January Sessions to 14 days in the borough Gaol and 3 years at the Saltley Reformatory.

4 April 1857 In the Reformatory Minute book is recorded: 423. Resolved: that an application be made to the Secretary of State for the dismissal of Elkington, Wright, Lundy, Brookes [spelled thus], Dempsey, and Campton, and that Elkington and Wright be allowed to go to the masters who have applied to take them as apprentices; that Lundy and Brookes be placed under the care of Mr Pawson, who promised to find them work; and that Campton and Dempsey be assisted to emigrate.

424. Resolved: that Mr Grove, who is about to emigrate to New Zealand, be induced to take under his charge Catchpole, Walker, Campton, and Dempsey, and that Mr Ratcliff report at next meeting.

3 June 1857 In a list of ‘disposals’, the Minute Book reports that Brookes is in service [at work]

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