| No. in Admissions Register: | 43 |
| Date of admission: | 21 October 1853 |
| Weekly payments: | - |
| Age: | 15 |
| Education: | None |
| Previous employment: | - |
| Crimes, how often and in what prison: | Birmingham, 3 |
| Training in reformatory: | Farm labour |
| When left reformatory: | 17 September 1855 |
| Parentage and family: | Both living |
| Residence: | - |
| Trade of father: | - |
| With whom the boy is placed: | 17 September 1855 entered the 2nd Warwickshire Militia |
| 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 … Samuel Garrett and George Parsons, for stealing a purse and 2 shillings and 6 pence, the property of John Caldwell… 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 [boy 42], Samuel Garrett [boy 44], and George Parsons, 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).
7 October 1854 in the Minute Book of the Reformatory it is recorded that George Parsons [boy 43], who was sent from Millbank in August of last year, wished to learn his father’s trade, and in compliance Mr Adderley wrote to Lord Palmerstone [Home Secretary] for his Lordship’s sanction to the boy being placed in a respectable service, and such sanction has been received, but we regret to say that upon an investigation of the general conduct of his parents, it is the opinion of your sub-committee that if he were to be restored to them he would soon be led into temptation, from the gross profligacy in which they live. Therefore he is still at the school.
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