Saltley Reformatory Inmates


William Robert Dunn

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No. in Admissions Register: 257
Date of admission: 15 June 1863
Whence received: Birmingham
By whom brought: -
On what terms: -
Friends interested in him: -
Description:  
Height: -
Figure: -
Complexion: Fresh
Hair colour: Sandy
Eyes colour: Grey
Perfect vision? -
State of health: Good
Able-bodied? Yes
Sound intellect? Yes
Use of all limbs? Yes
Had cow or small pox? Cowpox
Particular marks: Scar between eyebrows
Cutaneous disorder? No
Scrofulous or consumptive? No
Subject to fits? No
Age last birthday: 12
Illegitimate? -
Birthday: -
Birth place: -
Has resided: Hockley, Birmingham
Parish he belongs to: Birmingham
Customary work and mode of life: Caster
Schools attended: -
By whom and where employed: -
State of education:  
Reads: Imperfectly
Writes: -
Cyphers: -
General ability: -
Offence: Stealing 1s 6d
Circumstances which may have led to it: -
Date of sentence: 2 June 1863
Where convicted: Moor Street, before T C S Kynnersley
Who prosecuted: -
Where imprisoned: -
Sentence: 14 days prison, 5 years at Saltley
Previous committals and convictions: One (3 days and whipping)
Father's name: Edward Dunn
Occupation: Canvasser
Residence: 3 Hockley Street, Birmingham
Mother's name: Hannah Dunn
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: Father not yet summoned. He did not appear when the boy was committed, and as the boy had been previously convicted and was well known, the father was not sent for. Is a very bad boy – has been once convicted of stealing money from a little child in the street and was previously charged with the same offence, but case failed from a defect in the evidence. He is now convicted several times on a similar charge
Superintendent of police (to collect payments): -
Relatives to communicate with: -
Person making this return: T C S Kynnersley
Estimate of character on admission: -
Character on discharge: -
When and how left the Reformatory: -

Notes:

22 February 1867 Out on licence

25 January 1869 On board the Implacable training ship

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