| No. in Admissions Register: | 44 |
| Date of admission: | 21 October 1853 |
| Weekly payments: | - |
| Age: | 15 |
| Education: | Indifferent |
| Previous employment: | Errand boy |
| Crimes, how often and in what prison: | Birmingham, 3 |
| Training in reformatory: | Shoemaking |
| When left reformatory: | 19 May 1855 |
| Parentage and family: | Both living |
| Residence: | - |
| Trade of father: | - |
| With whom the boy is placed: | …ing at the Institution as shoemaker |
| 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, 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).
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