| No. in Admissions Register: | 595 |
| Age: | 14 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Pale |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | Pock marked |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 13 February 1878 3 years |
| Late residence: | Kings Bromley, near Lichfield, Staffordshire |
| Parish he belongs to: | Kings Bromley |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Farm labourer |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Offence: | Stealing leggings |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 31 January 1878, Elford Petty Sessions, W Arden and C J Webb |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison (hard labour), 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | One |
| Length: | 1 month |
| For what: | Stealing boots |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Mother's name: | Margaret Carthy |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Father |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good |
| Character of parents | Honest, sober, and good health |
| Parents' wages: | Little and uncertain |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Nothing |
| Parents address: | Kings Bromley |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: |
2 February 1878 There is a short report of the offence in the Tamworth Herald Saturday 2 February 1878 p.3 col.6: A VILE EDUCATION. - Frederick Carthy, a boy 14 years of age, of Alrewas, was charged with stealing a pair of leggings and a brass ornament, value 4s, the property of William Pratt, farm servant, of Orgreave, near Yoxall.- The case having been proved by prosecutor and P.C. Small, it was stated that prisoner had a wretched home, had never been to school in his life, and that his brothers were convicted thieves. -Sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment and 3 years in a reformatory.
4 November 1881 Letter from Carthy
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