| No. in Admissions Register: | 47 |
| Date of admission: | 19 January 1854 |
| Weekly payments: | - |
| Age: | 15 |
| Education: | Indifferent |
| Previous employment: | Errand boy |
| Crimes, how often and in what prison: | Various prisons, 5 |
| Training in reformatory: | Farm labourer |
| When left reformatory: | Has been 3 months on trial but left the institution(?) on … |
| Parentage and family: | Mother dead |
| Residence: | - |
| Trade of father: | Soldier |
| With whom the boy is placed: | Mr John Parmenter |
| Address: | Blake Lane, Small Heath |
| Trade: | As indoor servant and to attend to horses and gig |
7 October 1854 in the Minute Book of the Reformatory it is recorded that Walker has been taken by Mr Parmenter into his household service at a neighbouring villa.
2 January 1855 In the Minute Book it is recorded that Thos. Walker having been three months on trial has been articled for three years to Mr Parmenter.
23 April 1855 In the Minute Book it states that: the Secretaries reported that Ealker, who had been articled to Mr Parmenter had returned to the Institution in weak health.
Resolved: that Mr Ratcliff see Mr Parmenter thereon.
6 July 1855 in the Minute Book, a correction is given to the Minute of 23 Apr 1855: On reading minute 127, Mr Ratcliff reported that Walker had joined the militia [the Rifles].
5 November 1856 The Minute Book reported: 337… Resolved that Mr Adderley be requested to write to the Emigration Commissioners on the subject of Catchpole, Walker, and Payne going to Australia.
4 April 1857 In the Reformatory Minute book is recorded: 424. Resolved: that Mr Grove, who is about to emigrate to New Zealand, be induced to take under his charge Catchpole [boy 12], Walker, Campton [boy 54], and Dempsey [boy 86], and that Mr Ratcliff report at next meeting.
20 April 1857 The Minute Book notes: 445. Mr Ratcliff reported that Mr Grove had decided not to leave England.
11 August 1857 The Minute Book noted: 469. Mr Ratcliff reported that he had arranged with Messrs [no name given] & Co of Liverpool to secure a berth by the ship Melbourne sailing in a few days for Canada, that Thomas Walker (late an inmate) might emigrate. Lord Calthorpe and Mr Adderley having each subscribed £5 towards the expenses.
18 December 1860 The Reformatory Minute Book states: 735. Letters were read from George Bolt [boy 110], now a sailor in a vessel trading between New York and Havre, containing information respecting his own career and that of Benjamin Tranford [boy 102], now a successful butcher in Toronto, and Cotterill [boy 108], now a cook on board a large steamer in America, and Walker [boy 47] and Carlton [boy 91], who are doing well and employed by a farmer at New Orleans, and Beard [boy 105], who is now in prison in Kingston for stealing, and Dempsey [boy 86], who drowned himself through ill-usage on board a ship from New York to Havre.
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