| No. in Admissions Register: | 398 |
| Date of admission: | 3 March 1869 |
| 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? | - |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | Not |
| Subject to fits? | Not |
| Age last birthday: | 10 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Hanley |
| Parish he belongs to: | Hanley |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Pottery |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | - |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing two waistcoats |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence: | 2 February 1869 |
| Where convicted: | Hanley |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison (hard labour), 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None |
| Father's name: | George Ellis |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Residence: | Wood Street, Hanley |
| Mother's name: | Ann Ellis (stepmother) |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Own mother |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Honest, sober, and good health |
| Parents' wages: | 20s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s 6d per week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Mr Baker, Hanley |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
6 February 1869 There is a report of the crime in the Staffordshire Sentinel and Commercial and General Advertiser Saturday 6 February 1869 p.6 col.2: A YOUTHFUL THIEF.-A lad named George Ellis, aged eleven, was charged with stealing a pair of trousers, the property of John Faulkner, Hanley. - Prosecutor is a second-hand clothes dealer, and his wife swore that on the previous Monday evening the prisoner suddenly entered her husband's shop, seized the pair of trousers, and rushed out again.-lt was stated by Superintendent Baker that the boy had been sadly neglected by his parents, he having been allowed to wander about the streets uncared for. The boy's father, who was present, was severely reprimanded by the magistrates.-The boy was sent to prison for a month, to sent to a reformatory afterwards for three years.
26 March 1869 Just a month later there was a very brief report of his father being summoned in Hanley for non-payment of maintenance in the Birmingham Daily Gazette Friday 26 March 1869 p.4 col.3: George Ellis was called upon to show cause why he should not contribute to the support of his son in a Reformatory, and an order was made against him for the payment of 1s 6d per week.
5 February 1870 Almost a year later his father was still reluctant to pay, and was summoned again for arrears, reported in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 5 February 1870 p,7 col.3: George Ellis, collier. Wood Street, was summoned to show cause why he had not obeyed an order of the Court for the payment of 1s. 6d. a week for the maintenance of his son, Thomas Ellis, who is an inmate of the Saltley Reformatory. The defendant had allowed arrears amounting to £2 6s. 6d. to accumulate, and the Bench made an order that a distress warrant should issue forthwith.
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