Saltley Reformatory Inmates


Thomas Bird

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No. in Admissions Register: 329
Date of admission: 27 February 1866
Whence received: Birmingham
By whom brought: -
On what terms: -
Friends interested in him: -
Description:  
Height: -
Figure: -
Complexion: Fair
Hair colour: Light
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? Smallpox
Particular marks: -
Cutaneous disorder? Not
Scrofulous or consumptive? Not
Subject to fits? No
Age last birthday: 14
Illegitimate? -
Birthday: -
Birth place: -
Has resided: 22 Ledsam Street, Birmingham
Parish he belongs to: Birmingham
Customary work and mode of life: Filer
Schools attended: -
By whom and where employed: -
State of education:  
Reads: Not at all
Writes: Not at all
Cyphers: -
General ability: -
Offence: Stealing pipes and matches
Circumstances which may have led to it: Bad company
Date of sentence: 14 February 1866
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: None
Father's name: -
Occupation: -
Residence: -
Mother's name: -
Occupation: -
Residence: -
Father's character: -
Mother's character: -
Parents dead? Both
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: -

Notes:

17 February 1866 There is a brief report of the crime in the Birmingham Journal Saturday 17 February 1866 p.7 col.5: INCORRIGIBLE.-Thomas Bird (14), filer, Ledsam Street, was charged, on remand, with stealing a number of pipes, in company with some other lads, on the 8th instant from the shop of Thomas William Archer, tobacconist, Parade. The prisoner, who received a very bad character, was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment in the House of Correction, and at the. expiration of that time to be sent to a Reformatory School for five years.

28 May 1868 Emigrated to Canada

July 1869 Heard of doing well

October 1870 Unknown

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