| No. in Admissions Register: | 56 |
| Date of admission: | 16 September 1854 |
| Weekly payments: | - |
| Age: | 14 |
| Education: | Indifferent |
| Previous employment: | Painter |
| Crimes, how often and in what prison: | - |
| Training in reformatory: | - |
| When left reformatory: | 10 September 1856 |
| Parentage and family: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Trade of father: | - |
| With whom the boy is placed: | - |
| Address: | - |
| Trade: | - |
11 September 1854 A brief report of his crime in Aris's Birmingham Gazette 11 September 1854, p.1, col.4 says James Henry, aged 13, for stealing a handkerchief, the property of Joseph Osborne, to be imprisoned fourteen days in gaol, and afterwards sent for four years to the Reformatory at Saltley.
9 April 1856 The Reformatory Minute Book records: 241 Mr Ratcliff reported that he had received a letter from Mrs Nelson wishing payment for the boy Henry, by the parents, to be remitted. The boy was committed at the Sessions, and the father lately ordered to pay 2s weekly, and it appears from the letter that the application is founded upon a statement by Ellis to the father that the boy was capable of earning 10s a week in the Institution.
Resolved: that Mr Ratcliff investigate the statement and report to the next Committee.
20 September 1856 The Minute Book records: 308. On reading Minute 241, Mr Adderley reported that Henry had been sent out to New Zealand and the subject of his parents’ payments therefore dropped. Mr Adderley visited Henry on board and placed him in charge of the Bishop of Christchurch and other passengers going out in the same ship.
309. On reading Minutes 304 and 305, Mr Adderley reported that the Colonial Office had refused sanction to the emigration of six boys to Canterbury and that Silvester and Henry had been selected to go out with their parents’ consent under the sanction of this committee, but that Silvester had subsequently declined to go and had been left in the care of his brother, a shoemaker in London, who undertook to employ him.
5 July 1859 The Minute Book reported: 580. Mr Ratcliff read a letter which had been received by Mr Adderley from New Zealand, in which it was stated that Henry,, who was formerly an inmate at Saltley Reformatory and who emigrated about 3 years since to New Zealand, had sent £8 5s towards expenses for his brother’s emigration to the same colony.
The letter was considered highly satisfactory, and a subscription amounting £4 10s was realised – from Lord Lichfield, £2 2s, W Bagnell £1, Rev. W Gover £1, and Mr Boyce 10s – to cover the outfit for Henry’s brother to New Zealand.
Mr Ratcliff reported that he had seen Mr Fitzgerald at the Emigration Office, London, and had secured a berth by a ship sailing about the 28th of the present month.
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