| No. in Admissions Register: | 96 |
| Date of admission: | 7 June 1856 |
| Weekly payments: | - |
| Age: | 14 |
| Education: | Reads and writes |
| Previous employment: | Umbrella |
| Crimes, how often and in what prison: | 5 |
| Training in reformatory: | Absconded 4 April 1857 |
| When left reformatory: | - |
| Parentage and family: | Father and mother living |
| Residence: | 1 court 2 house Windmill Street, Suffolk Street |
| Trade of father: | Labourer |
| With whom the boy is placed: | Emigrated to Toronto 29 April 1858 in company of John Carlton [no.91] |
| Address: | - |
| Trade: | - |
3 February 1855 A previous crime was reported in the Birmingham Journal Saturday 3 February 1855 p.7 col.3: STEALING SKATES. - A lad named Darby Welch, an umbrella maker, residing in Edgbaston Street, was charged with stealing a pair of skates from the shop of Mr Charles Aston, ironmonger, High Street, He admitted the theft, and having been previously committed. The magistrates sent him to gaol for three months. [The item in the newspaper immediately preceding this were details of a crime committed by a John Welch, possibly his brother].
2 June 1855 Another previous crime was reported in the Birmingham Journal Saturday 2 June 1855 p.6 col.3: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY. - … Darby Welch, another juvenile, residing in Edgbaston Street, was sent to Gaol for three months, for stealing a loaf, from the shop of Thomas Fletcher, baker, Bristol Street.
9 February 1856 A short account of the crime which sent him to Saltley is to be found in the Birmingham Journal Saturday 9 February 1856 p.7 col.5: STEALING BEEF. - A lad named Darby Welch, aged fifteen, residing in Windmill Street, was brought up on a charge of stealing a piece of beef, worth 4s, from the shop of Mrs Jane Elizabeth Barrington. Butcher, Deritend. The prisoner was seen to take the meat and hand it to an accomplice, who succeeded in escaping with his prize. Not so lucky, however, was poor Darby, who was pursued and caught by the "butcher man" and given into the tender care of a police officer, Three previous convictions having been proved against him, he was committed to the Sessions for trial, [He was sentenced to two months in prison. And two years at Saltley].
20 April 1857 The Minute book records: 446. Mr Ratcliff mentioned that none of the boys mentioned in Minutes 425 and 426 have been taken [they had absconded from the Reformatory], and that Welch, Wood [boy 67], Hughes [boy 69], Smith [boy 78], and Cassidy [boy 94] have since absconded, and that Wood and Cassidy are now in prison for absconding, and Smith has been allowed by the Magistrates to return to the School.
Resolved: that the Police of the several districts where the boys reside be informed of their having absconded.
21 March 1858 The Minute book reports: 493. That the Visitors for the month be authorised to arrange for the emigration of 4 or 5 boys, with a view to making vacancies for Staffordshire cases, and that their attention in the first instance be directed to the two Taylors, Welch, and Carlton [boy 91].
7 April 1858 The Minute book states: 501. Mr Ratcliff reported that application had been made for the sanction of Government for the Emigration to Canada of the two Taylors [boys 87 and 88] and Welch, whose fathers had consented, and of Carlton [boy 91], with respect to whose parents Mr Carter is making enquiries at Liverpool.
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