| No. in Admissions Register: | 89 |
| Date of admission: | 1 August 1855 |
| Weekly payments: | - |
| Age: | 12 |
| Education: | None |
| Previous employment: | On the road |
| Crimes, how often and in what prison: | 2 |
| Training in reformatory: | 22 May 1857 |
| When left reformatory: | - |
| Parentage and family: | Both living |
| Residence: | - |
| Trade of father: | - |
| With whom the boy is placed: | Captain Tyndal |
| Address: | Sydney, Australia |
| Trade: | - |
7 July 1855 A report of the crime was given in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 7 July 1855 p.7 col.1: JAMES HILL, 12 years of age, was indicted for stealing 24lbs of brass, the property of Messers Ashdown and Company, at Wednesfield; and MICHAEL MACINALTY, aged 58, was indicted for receiving the brass knowing it to have been stolen. Hill pleaded guilty, and sentence was deferred. Macinalty, a labourer, was convicted of receiving the stolen brass, and sentenced to twelve months imprisonment. Hill was subsequently sentenced to one month's imprisonment in the house of correction, and three years confinement in the Saltley Reformatory School.
20 April 1857 The Reformatory Minute Book reports: 454. Mr Humphreys stated that Hill, one of the boys, having disobeyed orders, he instructed the Assistant Schoolmaster to keep him in the schoolroom till the work was done, and to give him bread for dinner; that Mr Brookes wanted the boy to go on an errand and was angry because he could not have him; that Mr Brookes afterwards gave the boy meat to his dinner. Mr Humphreys stated that the boys were too much in the habit of going on errands and that he had sent a message to Mr Brookes requesting to speak to him, intending to discuss the whole subject. [The Minute goes on to the effect that two of the teachers resigned]
3 June 1857 The Minute Book records: As to Minute 442, the Visitors have sanctioned the sending out of the boys William Beech [boy 62] and James Hill who have gone to Australia.
[No date] A note in the Admissions Register says he was drowned in the Dunbar. [The Dunbar sank approaching Sydney Harbour on 20 August 1857. 121 people died. James Hill is not named in the list of passengers killed, but there is a John Holl, a steerage passenger, plus three unnamed servants].
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