| No. in Admissions Registers: | 149 |
| Date of admission: | 20 August 1858 |
| Whence received: | Stafford County Gaol |
| By whom brought: | Mr Mountford, Deputy Governor |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Light brown |
| Eyes colour: | Light grey |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Very slight lameness (?) of the left thigh |
| Had cow or small pox? | Cow pox |
| Particular marks: | Cut on the top lip |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 15 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Ablow Street, Wolverhampton |
| Parish to which he belongs: | Wolverhampton |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Bricklayer |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | None |
| Cyphers: | None |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Larceny |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence: | 6 August 1858 |
| Where convicted: | Public Office, Bilston |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford County Gaol |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison, 2 years at Reformatory |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Stealing shoes (3 calendar months); stealing shoes again (3 calendar months); larceny |
| Father's name: | George Briscoe |
| Occupation: | Bricklayer |
| Residence: | Ablow Street, Wolverhampton |
| Mother's name: | Lucy Briscoe |
| Occupation: | Washerwoman |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Very good |
| Mother's character: | Very good |
| Parents dead? | No |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents: | Good |
| Parents' wages: | About 20s per week. |
| Weekly amount parents will pay | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | John Redborne Bowen, clerk to the Petty Sessions, Bilston |
| Estimate of character on admission | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
14 August 1858 There is a brief report of his offence in the Walsall Free Press and Advertiser Saturday 14 Aug 1858 p.1 col.6: SHOPLIFTING. - A boy named George Roberts was charged on Friday week, before E Best and J N Bagnall, Esqrs, with stealing a tobacco box from the shop of James Brown, Princes End. He was convicted and sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment, and to afterwards be detained for a period of two years in a reformatory.
10 February 1859 Absconded with Clifford. Never recovered. Term of detention expired while still at large.
March 1861 Dead.
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