Enoch Clayton - Saltley Reformatory Inmate
| No. in Admissions Register: | 898 |
| Age: | 13 |
| Whence received: | H M Prison Stafford |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| Height: | 4 ft 3½ ins |
| Particular marks: | 6 blue dots back left arm |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Slender |
| Date of admission: | 7 January 1889 |
| Late residence: | 11 Poultney Street, Wolverhampton |
| Parish he belongs to: | Wolverhampton |
| Customary work and mode of life: | None |
| Whether illegitimate: | No |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing a pair of boots |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence, by whom and court: | 8 December 1888; C Newham and C Ness; Wolverhampton Court of Summary Jurisdiction |
| Where imprisoned: | H M Prison Stafford |
| Sentence: | 1 month hard labour in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | 1 (but 6 previous charges against Clayton) |
| Length: | 1 day and 12 strokes |
| For what: | - |
| Father's name: | James Clayton |
| Occupation: | Pump maker |
| Mother's name: | Sarah Ann Clayton |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Well treated |
| Character of parents | Parents both honest but rather given to drink. Father suffers from rheumatism |
| Parents' wages: | Father 92s per week, mother 7s per week at Lock works |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | No offer made, not yet assessed |
| Parents address: | 11 Poultney Street, Wolverhampton |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Major Hay, Chief Constable, Wolverhampton |
| Person making this return: | W Chambers, Clerk to Justices, Town Hall, Wolverhampton |
| Notes: | |
| 20 April 1892 The Medical Officer reported: Slight synovitis. Well by 27 April | |
| 20 May 1892 The Register of Boys on Licence records that Clayton was licensed to go out and work for Mr Jones, 8 Little Brick Kiln Street, Wolverhampton | |
| 3 September 1893 Re-admitted to the School because of bad conduct whilst on licence | |
| 6 January 1894 Sentence expired, discharged from Saltley | |
