Saltley Reformatory Inmates


Samuel Goring

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No. in Admissions Register: 375
Date of admission: 9 January 1868
Whence received: Stafford
By whom brought: -
On what terms: -
Friends interested in him: -
Description:  
Height: -
Figure: -
Complexion: Fresh
Hair colour: Brown
Eyes colour: Grey
Perfect vision? Yes
State of health: Good
Able-bodied? Yes
Sound intellect? Yes
Use of all limbs? Yes
Had cow or small pox? Cowpox
Particular marks: -
Cutaneous disorder? No
Scrofulous or consumptive? Not apparent
Subject to fits? No
Age last birthday: 11
Illegitimate? -
Birthday: -
Birth place: -
Has resided: Nethertown near Yoxall, Staffordshire
Parish he belongs to: Yoxall
Customary work and mode of life: Farm work
Schools attended: -
By whom and where employed: -
State of education:  
Reads: Not at all
Writes: Not at all
Cyphers: -
General ability: -
Offence: Stealing a watch
Circumstances which may have led to it: -
Date of sentence: [19 December 1867]
Where convicted: [Rugeley before T J Birch and J W Sneyd]
Who prosecuted: -
Where imprisoned: -
Sentence: 21 days prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley
Previous committals and convictions: None
Father's name: -
Occupation: -
Residence: -
Mother's name: Jane Goring
Occupation: works on a farm
Residence: Nethertown, Hamstall Ridware, Rugeley, Staffordshire
Father's character: -
Mother's character: -
Parents dead? Father
Survivor married again? No
Parents' treatment of child: Good
Character of parents Honest, rather given to drink, health good
Parents' wages: About 3s per week besides son's earnings
Amount parents agree to pay: Nothing
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:

21 December 1867 There is a brief report of the crime in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 21 December 1867 p.7 col.3: LARCENY. - Samuel Goring of Hamstall Ridware, a boy between ten and eleven years of age, was convicted of stealing a watch, the property of John Lawrance. on the 1st inst., and the Bench sentenced him to three weeks' imprisonment, and at the expiration of that sentence to be sent to a reformatory for five years.

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