| No. in Admissions Register: | 116 |
| Date of admission: | 12 October 1857 |
| Whence received: | Liverpool Borough Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | Committed |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure | - |
| Complexion: | Light |
| Hair colour: | Light |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Vaccinated |
| Particular marks: | Slight mark under right ear from a burn |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 10 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | 3 Cartwright Place, Byron Street, Liverpool |
| Parish to which he belongs: | Liverpool |
| Customary work and mode of life: | None |
| Schools attended: | St John's Government School, Cross Hall Street, Liverpool |
| By whom and where employed | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Knows the alphabet |
| Writes: | - |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing £3 from his grandmother |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence: | 9 September 1857 |
| Where convicted: | Liverpool before J S Mansfield, Esq |
| Sentence: | 34 days in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None |
| Father's name: | William Southern |
| Occupation | Delivery foreman, Albert Dock: |
| Residence: | 3 Cartwright Place, Byron Street, Liverpool |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Occasionally drinks |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parent's dead? | Mother dead |
| Survivor married again? | Yes |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Kind |
| Character of parents: | - |
| Parents' wages: | 24s per week |
| Weekly amount parents will pay: | 1s 6d |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | Rev T Carter, Chaplain, Liverpool Borough Gaol |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
3 September 1857 There is a very brief report of his crime in the Liverpool Daily Post Thursday 3 September 1857 p.7 col.4: A BAD BOY. - A lad named Robert Southern, about ten years old, was remanded on a charge of having stolen £3 10s from his grandmother, in Cartwright;s Place.
1 February 1858 very quiet boy. Name on Good Conduct List
31 October 1860 absconded after dinner
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