| No. in Admissions Register: | 143 |
| Date of admission: | 15 February 1858 |
| Whence received | Warwick County Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Brown |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | No |
| Particular marks: | Small cut over left eyebrow, pock mark over it, and cut in centre of forehead |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 12 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | At Southam |
| Parish to which he belongs: | Southam |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Farm work |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Cyphers: | |
| General ability: | |
| Offence: | Stealing lead |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Having no mother was neglected by his father's housekeeper and want of employment |
| Date of sentence: | 18 January 1858 |
| Where convicted: | Southam Petty Sessions, before Sir G W Biddulph, Bart., and W T Chamberlayne |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 28 days prison (hard labour), 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None |
| Father's name: | Thomas Foster |
| Occupation | Rough carpenter |
| Residence: | Crow Lane, Southam |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Father not married again but is supposed to be living with a woman of improper character |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parent's dead? | No |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Good by father but by housekeeper indifferently |
| Character of parents: | Good |
| Parents' wages: | About16s per week |
| Weekly amount parents will pay: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
14 February 1861 Discharged on expiration of his term and returned to his father.
5 December 1861 Employed as a rough carpenter with his father on the farm of Mr Gray, Wallington, Southam Fields. Character good.
September 1864 Heard from - getting a comfortable living.
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