| No. in Admissions Register: | 59 |
| Date of admission: | 20 September 1854 |
| Weekly payments: | - |
| Age: | 16 |
| Education: | Good |
| Previous employment: | Mason |
| Crimes, how often and in what prison: | Twice |
| Training in reformatory: | Tailor |
| When left reformatory: | 7 September 1856 |
| Parentage and family: | Mother dead- |
| Residence: | Yeovil, Somerset |
| Trade of father: | - |
| With whom the boy is placed: | - |
| Address: | - |
| Trade: | - |
25 March 1854 A possible short report of one of his crimes is in the Wells Journal of Saturday 25 March 1854 p.8 col.3: John Collins, 16, George Vincent. 15, and William Sylvester, 15, were charged with stealing two cheeses, value 4s, the property of Jane Corry, at Yeovil, on the 13th of January last. Collins pleaded guilty. The others were found Guilty by the Jury, and they were sentenced; Collins to two months’ hard labour, Vincent (fourth conviction) 4 years’ penal servitude, and Sylvester 2 years’ hard labour.
7 October 1854 in the Minute Book of the Reformatory it is recorded that I Gittings [boy 16] has been transferred to Kingswood, Bristol, at the entire expense of Mr William Miles MD, who pays Miss Carpenter [an official at the Kingswood Reformatory?] 7s a week on his account, and we have received in exchange a boy of the name Sylvester from Shepton Mallett, Somersetshire, at the recommendation of Mr Miles.
20 September 1856 the Minute Book records: 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.
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