| No. in Admissions Register: | 150 |
| Date of admission: | 19 October 1858 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Gaol |
| By whom brought: | Deputy Governor Wills |
| On what terms: | Under committal |
| Friends interested in him: | T C S Kynnersley, Esq |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Auburn |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | - |
| Use of all limbs? | - |
| Had cow or small pox? | - |
| Particular marks: | Small scar between eyebrows |
| Cutaneous disorder? | - |
| S | - |
| Subject to fits? | - |
| Age last birthday: | 9 |
| Illegitimate? | Yes |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | 19 Great Barr Street, Birmingham |
| Parish to which he belongs: | - |
| Customary work and mode of life: | - |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Cyphers: | None |
| General ability: | Fair |
| Offence: | Stealing 20s from his uncle James Johnson |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence: | 20 July 1858 |
| Where convicted: | Police Court, Moor Street |
| Who prosecuted: | James Johnson |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford County Gaol |
| Sentence: | 3 months prison, 5 years detention at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Deserted him |
| Character of parents: | - |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Relatives to communicate with: | His grandfather and grandmother Johnson, 19 Great Barr Street, Birmingham |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
26 July 1858 There is a short report of his offence in Aris's Birmingham Gazette Monday 26 July 1858 p.4 col.5: TUESDAY. - Before R W WINFIELD and T PHILLIPS, Esqrs, - A boy, only nine years of age, named Frederick Johnson, was charged with stealing a sovereign belonging to his uncle, a caster, in Great Barr Street. The young thief, it appeared, had taken the money from a chest of drawers in his uncle's house, and had spent 4s of it when the theft was discovered. The prosecutor stated that the boy had committed several thefts previously, on one occasion taking a handful of money from a shop till in Deritend. - The delinquent was sentenced to three months' hard labour, with five years subsequent detention in a Reformatory School.
10 March 1862 Absconded
11 March 1862 Brought back from home by Thos. Tailor
19 March 1862 Discharged on expiry of term
August 1864 Worked in Birmingham and behaved well till now. His friends have now taken him to Australia. Particulars not known.
January 1866 Found to be still working in Birmingham. Steady and doing well.
December 1866 Found to be still working in Birmingham. Steady and doing well.
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