| No. in Admissions Register: | 240 |
| Date of admission: | 5 September 1862 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | - |
| Hair colour: | - |
| Eyes colour: | - |
| Perfect vision? | - |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Sound intellect? | - |
| Use of all limbs? | - |
| Had cow or small pox? | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| Cutaneous disorder? | - |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | - |
| Subject to fits? | - |
| Age last birthday: | 13 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | - |
| Parish he belongs to: | - |
| Customary work and mode of life: | - |
| Schools attended: | None |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | None |
| Writes: | None |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | - |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence: | - |
| Where convicted: | - |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison, 4 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | - |
| Father's name: | Henry Rowley |
| Occupation: | Collier |
| Residence: | Leicester Street, Bilston |
| Mother's name: | Fanny |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
[There is some confusion here. In an unusual error, the Admissions Register gives his first name as Henry (and very little other information). In fact it is Samuel. His brother is named Henry and appeared in the Reformatory in 1868.]
[To see the record for his brother Henry, boy 381, click here ]
6 August 1862 There is a probable report of his crime in the Wolverhampton Chronicle and Staffordshire Advertiser Wednesday 6 August 1862 p.5 col.5: A YOUNG THIEF. - A little boy, named Samuel Rowley, only 13 years age, was placed in the dock, at the Bilston Police Court, yesterday, charged with stealing a quantity of coffee from the shop of Mr. Michael Hogan, provision dealer, Oxford-street. It appears the prisoner committed the theft by putting his hand through a broken square into prosecutor's shop window, and being caught in the act was given into custody. As it appeared he had been several times before the magistrates for similar offences, the Bench committed him to gaol for one month's imprisonment, and at the expiration of that imprisonment be further confined in a reformatory for four years.
24 December 1863 Allowed to go home on leave until 1 January 1864 to spend the Christmas, and did not return
13 January 1864 Apprehended by the police at Bilston
14 January 1864 Fetched back by Mr Cook
23 January 1864 Because of his failure to return to the Reformatory after the Christmas leave, his father was summoned. There is a report of this in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 23 January 1864 p.7 col.7: KEEPING A BOY FROM A REFORMATORY.-Henry Rowley and Thomas Garner were charged with the offence of withholding Samuel Rowley, the son of the former, from Saltley Reformatory. The boy was allowed to spend Christmas with his friends, and should have returned on New Year's-day; but, failing to do so, the visit of police constable Harrison to Garner's residence, where Rowley lodged, revealed tbe fact that the boy was working with his father as a collier and that the marks bad been cut from his Reformatory clothing. The boy was sent back to the Reformatory, and the defendants summoned on the present charge. Mr. M'Crea said he had received a letter from the Secretary to the Reformatory, requesting that the case might be adjourned for a month order that he might consult the directors of the Reformatory upon the charge. The request was complied with, and the defendants bound in their own recognizances to appear that day month.
17 August 1865 Absconded
24 August 1865 Brought back from Bilston
5 January 1866 Absconded with 245 [Frederick Evans]
30 August 1866 Apprehended at Bilston, but as his term of detention expires 4 September, it was not worth while having him back to the school
February 1867 In prison
May 1871 At Bilston. Doing well
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