| No. in Admissions Register: | 72 |
| Date of admission: | 19 May 1855 |
| Weekly payments: | - |
| Age: | 16 |
| Education: | None |
| Previous employment: | Brass foundry |
| Crimes, how often and in what prison: | 9 |
| Training in reformatory: | 15 January 1856 |
| When left reformatory: | Shoe maker |
| Parentage and family: | Both living |
| Residence: | Cheapside [Birmingham] |
| Trade of father: | Plumber’s labourer |
| With whom the boy is placed: | sent to |
| Address: | - |
| Trade: | - |
14 April 1855 A brief report in the Birmingham Journal for Saturday 14 April 1855 p.6 col.3 says:George Garvey, brass founder, for stealing 16 lbs of butter, the property of James Lyons, six weeks, and three years at the Saltley Reformatory School
15 March 1856 A later report in the Birmingham Journal for Saturday 15 March 1856 p.7 col.1 gives details of another incident: ROBBING THE REFORMATORY SCHOOL, - At the Saltley Petty Sessions, on Thursday, a youth named George Garvey pleaded guilty to a charge of absconding from the school at an early hour of the morning of the 15th of January last, and taking with him a pair of boots belonging to Mr Ellis, the master, and several articles of clothing, the property of boys in the establishment. The prisoner, on being captured, gave such evidence as led to the recovery of the whole of the property, part of which he had pledged at the shop of Mr Michael Barr, a pawnbroker, in Ryland Street, who, it is only right to remark, received the approbation of the officers, for having acted most properly in the case. The prisoner, who cried most bitterly, was committed to the Assizes, acknowledging his guilt, and attributing the committal of the crime to his having been wrongfully suspected of doing something of which he was innocent.
26 March 1856 The case at the Assizes referred to above was reported in the Birmingham Journal on Wednesday 26 Mar 1856 p.2 col.6. It said: George Garvey, a tailor, aged sixteen, pleaded guilty to having stolen, on the 15th of January last, a jacket and a pair of trousers, the property of Mr John Ellis, of the Saltley Reformatory. Mr Hillyard, Governor of the Borough Gaol, informed the Court that he had had the prisoner under his protection within the walls of the prison no less than six times since 1852. On the last occasion he was punished and sent to the Reformatory School for three years; and the theft with which he was now charged, was committed by him in that Institution, of which Mr Ellis was schoolmaster. Mr Spooner QC said he appeared for the prosecution, and was instructed that the prisoner was quite incorrigible, every effort made to reclaim him having been totally unavailing. The learned judge sentenced him to twelve month’s imprisonment with hard labour.
[No date] Mr Ellis wrote from London to say that Garvey died [rest is difficult to read
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