| No. in Admissions Register: | 42 |
| Date of admission: | 21 October 1853 |
| Weekly payments: | - |
| Age: | 16 |
| Education: | Indifferent |
| Previous employment: | Errand boy |
| Crimes, how often and in what prison: | Various prisons, 5 |
| Training in reformatory: | Farm labour |
| When left reformatory: | 31 October 1854 |
| Parentage and family: | Father dead |
| Residence: | - |
| Trade of father: | - |
| With whom the boy is placed: | - |
| Address: | - |
| Trade: | - |
4 July 1853 In a brief report of the Birmingham Borough Sessions in Aris’s Birmingham Gazette, Monday 4 July 1853 p.5 col.7 details of Joseph Gill’s crime are given: …TRANSPORTATION … Joseph Gill, for stealing a thimble and 4 shillings and 10 pence, the property of Giles Wankling, seven years…
20 October 1853 The Reformatory Minute Book states from a committee meeting of 20th October 1853 : Mr Adderley having laid before the Committee a correspondence with the Home Office on the case of three boys, viz. Joseph Gill, Samuel Garrett [boy 44], and George Parsons [boy 43], now in Mill Bank Prison, for whom a pardon had been received on condition of their being received and kept at this Institution, such boys having been sentenced to transportation at the last Birmingham Sessions, it was:
Resolved, that Mr Adderley be requested to apply to the Governor of Mill Bank Prison for delivery of the boys at the Institution and that they be placed under the immediate care of Mr Ellis [the man in charge of the Reformatory]
Your Committee report the boys were received on the 11th day of October last. Mr Bracebridge was at the station. (Mr Ellis produced the conditional pardon).
2 January 1855 It was recorded in the Minute Book that Gill had left and was reported to be doing well.
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