| No. in Admissions Register: | 86 |
| Date of admission: | 24 March 1856 |
| Weekly payments: | - |
| Age: | 13 |
| Education: | - |
| Previous employment: | - |
| Crimes, how often and in what prison: | 4 |
| Training in reformatory: | Committed damage(?) [broke windows] with 75 [William Arrowsmith] and 77 [Frederick Wright] |
| When left reformatory: | - |
| Parentage and family: | An orphan |
| Residence: | Stafford Street, Wolverhampton |
| Trade of father: | Master carpenter |
| With whom the boy is placed: | Transferred to Sandbach 18 June 1857 |
| Address: | - |
| Trade: | - |
20 June 1855 A previous crime possibly committed by this boy was reported in the Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser Wednesday 20 June 1855 p.6 col.2: JUVENILE OFFENDERS. - Michael Dempsey and Michael Hughes, two boys, were convicted of stealing a cap, the property of William Cooke. Dempsey, having been previously convicted, was sentenced to three months imprisonment with hard labour; Hughes was ordered to be imprisoned one month.
15 March 1856 The crime that sent the boy to the Reformatory was reported in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 15 March 1856 p.10 col.6: MICHAEL DEMPSEY, 14, convicted at the sessions in December of stealing ten pounds of beef, the property of William Hickman, of Wolverhampton, after two previous summary convictions under the Juvenile Offenders Act, was brought up for sentence. The Chairman directed that he be imprisoned 21 days, and at the expiration of that period be sent for two years to the Reformatory School at Saltley.
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 [boy 83], Wright [boy 77], Lundy [boy 76], Brookes [boy 61], Dempsey, and Campton [boy 54], 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 [boy 12], Walker [boy 47], Campton, and Dempsey, and that Mr Ratcliff report at next meeting.
20 April 1857 The Minute Book notes: 445. Mr Ratcliff reported that Mr Grove had decided not to leave England.
3 June 1857 In a list of 'disposals', the Reformatory Minute Book reports that Dempsey is in Warwick Gaol for window breaking, and will return 17 Jun.
At the same meeting, it is recorded that: 459. Resolved: that an application be made for removal of Dempsey to Sandbach Reformatory.
18 December 1860 The Reformatory Minute Book states: 735. Letters were read from George Bolt [boy 110], now a sailor in a vessel trading between New York and Havre, containing information respecting his own career and that of Benjamin Tranford [boy 102], now a successful butcher in Toronto, and Cotterill [boy 108], now a cook on board a large steamer in America, and Walker [boy 47] and Carlton [boy 91], who are doing well and employed by a farmer at New Orleans, and Beard [boy 105], who is now in prison in Kingston for stealing, and Dempsey [boy 86], who drowned himself through ill-usage on board a ship from New York to Havre.
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