| No. in Admissions Register: | 581 |
| Age: | 14 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 11 August 1877 3 years |
| Late residence: | Pelsall, Staffordshire |
| Parish he belongs to: | Pelsall |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Boat boy |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing a watch |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 11 July 1877, Shenstone Petty Sessions, A E Marley and J H Bagnall |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison (hard labour), 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | None |
| Length: | - |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | John Holt |
| Occupation: | Forge man |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Mother |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Good |
| Parents' wages: | 18s to 21s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s 6d to 3s per week |
| Parents address: | Pelsall, near Walsall |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
21 July 1877 There is a short report of the crime in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 21 July 1877 p.5 cl.5: THEFT OF A WATCH. - John Holt, a Pelsall boy. was committed to gaol for one month and to a reformatory for three years for having stolen, at Chase Town, in March last, a watch, the property of Charles Thompson. The prosecutor provided the boy, out of pity, with lodgings, as he complained of having no home. On the third day, however, Holt decamped with the watch, which has not since been found.
27 July 1880 Licensed to work at [sentence ends here]
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