This news report of William Styles (1879-1957), being charged - aged 9 - with not being looked after properly was printed (as you can see) on 1889-02-02 and relates to his appearance at the police courts on the preceding Thursday (1889-01-31). They didn't hang about and he turns up in the admissions register of the Ragged and Industrial School as entry number 918 on the very day he was picked up. The newspapers had other things to report on the 31st of January. Many of them being preoccupied with the sudden death of Crown Prince Rudolph, but there's no evidence that this induction has any connection.
He's recorded in the 1891 census (RG12-4212 folio 125 page 3), aged 11, with his address as Jubilee Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, as an inmate of the Ragged & Industrial Schools, Newcastle upon Tyne. His birthplace is recorded as South Shields. He was there until they released him, aged 16. By the time of the 1901 census, he's married Annie and they're living at 17 Norman Street, Felling (which does not appear to be still extant) where he's recorded as being a Barman. We have been unable to discover anything about Frank Furness |
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