| No. in Admissions Register: | 403 |
| Age: | 14 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Hazel |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 3 May 1869 5 years |
| Late residence: | 2 Kent Street, Hanley |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | - |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing beef |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 2 April 1869, J E Davis Esq, Fenton Petty Sessions |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 1 |
| Length: | 14 days |
| For what: | Stealing stockings |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Mother's name: | Hannah Bennett |
| Occupation: | Charwoman |
| Parents dead? | Father |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Good |
| Parents' wages: | 5s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Nothing |
| Parents address: | 2 Kent Street, Hanley |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Mr Baker, Hanley |
| Person making this return: | - |
3 April 1869 There is a brief report of the offence in the Staffordshire Sentinel and Commercial and General Advertiser Saturday 3 April 1969 p.5 col.2: YOUNG THIEVES. - Arthur Bennett, Jeremiah Bogey, and John Smith young boys, were charged with stealing a knife and a piece of beef from the shop of Charles Phillips, butcher. Stoke. - Bennett and Bogey were sent to prison for a month, prior to being sent to a reformatory for years. Smith was remanded.
26 October 1872 Lord Leigh got him a berth on the C. Gladstone government emigration ship. C. Allwood took him to London today to 65 Fenchurch Street, Captain Forster; and is to get his outfit and Hemmings of Blackwall Cross, to the amount of £4 16 shillings, beside a new cloth suit, hat and boots that he goes in.
17 February 1874 Wrote to Captain Forster respecting him
6 (?) March 1874 Heard from Captain Forster that he had left his ship and stayed a… Dunedin, Otago in New Zealand.
23 February 1874 Letter from the Government Emigration Office, St Katherine Dock, Tower Hill: Dear Sir, the Charlotte Gladstone has since Oct '72 made the voyage and nearly home to New Zealand, since which she has gone to New Orleans and is now on the way home. The captain of '72 has been changed, so that I may have some little difficulty in finding the lad, but I will do so as soon as I can and write you, I remain, M A Forster
Follow up letter from Captain Forster at the same address: Dear Sir, I heard yesterday from the then captain of the C Gladstone that the lad you are interested for left the ship at Dunedin in New Zealand. Technically, of course, he deserted, but sailors do often, especially in emigrants vessels, leave their ships for a trial of colonial life, that he may simply be said to have left his ship at New Zealand. Yours respectfully, M A Forster.
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