| No. in Admissions Register: | 300 |
| Date of admission: | 3 May 1865 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Light |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | - |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | - |
| Particular marks: | Cut on chin |
| Cutaneous disorder? | - |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | - |
| Subject to fits? | - |
| Age last birthday: | 13 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Hanley |
| Parish he belongs to: | Stoke on Trent |
| Customary work and mode of life: | - |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing a scarf |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence: | 3 March 1865 |
| Where convicted: | Fenton Police Court before J E Davis |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 2 months, 4 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None |
| Father's name: | James Dovey |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Residence: | 2 George Street, Shelton, Hanley [34 Bath Street, Hanley crossed out – previous address?] |
| Mother's name: | Priscilla Dovey |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Good |
| Mother's character: | Good |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Most kind |
| Character of parents | Health not very good, circumstances not very good |
| Parents' wages: | 15s a week when in work |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s a week but father is at present out of work and mother ill |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | S Cole, Hanley |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | J R Rose, Stoke on Trent |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
4 March 1865 There is a short report of the crime in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 4 March 1865 p.5 col.3: James Doley [surname given thus], a youth of thirteen years of age. pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a silk scarf, of the value of 3s. 6d., the property of Mr George Fearn. draper. Hanley, and was sent to the house of correction for two months, and after that to be transferred to a reformatory for four years.
29 July 1867 Absconded
December 1870 Heard of doing well in Hanley
July 1871 Heard of doing well
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