| No. in Admissions Register: | 11 |
| Date of admission: | 25 September 1852 |
| Weekly payments: | - |
| Age: | 14 |
| Education: | Very trifling |
| Previous employment: | Sword making |
| Crimes, how often and in what prison: | Birmingham, 3 |
| Training in reformatory: | Spectacle making |
| When left reformatory: | June 1853 |
| Parentage and family: | Father living |
| Residence: | Birmingham Gaol |
| Trade of father: | Woodman |
| With whom the boy is placed: | - |
| Address: | - |
| Trade: | - |
21 July 1851 There is a very brief report of a possible previous crime in Aris’s Birmingham Gazette Monday 21 July 1851 p.2 col.4: …William Essex, for stealing 1s 6d from Charlotte Swanbro, 6 months [in prison].
12 May 1856 In the Reformatory Minute Book it is recorded that: 256. In consequence of Mr Bunce having reported that a boy named Essex was now in the Institution under peculiar circumstances.
Resolved: that the Secretaries investigate and report at the next meeting.
30 June 1856 The previous Minute later followed up with: 268. the Secretaries reported that Essex, who had been improperly allowed by Ellis to come to Saltley had robbed the house, and on being prosecuted had been committed to the Warwickshire Sessions to take his trial this day.
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