| No. in Admissions Register: | 164 |
| Date of admission: | 9 February 1860 |
| Whence received: | Borough Gaol, Birmingham |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | Slight |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| 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? | Yes |
| Particular marks: | Scars on body |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 13 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Bartholomew Street, Birmingham |
| Parish to which he belongs: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Brass founding and vagrant |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Cyphers: | None |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing £3 3s |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence: | 27 January 1860 |
| Where convicted: | Birmingham Police Court |
| Where imprisoned: | Birmingham Borough Gaol |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison, 5 years detention at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Picking pockets (3 months hard labour) |
| Father's name: | George Deebank (stepfather) |
| Occupation: | Brass bit filer |
| Residence: | Lawrence Street, Birmingham |
| Mother's name: | Jane Deebank |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | Lawrence Street, Birmingham |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Father |
| Survivor married again? | Yes to George Deebank |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Mother has been uniformly kind; stepfather not |
| Character of parents | Honest, sober, and very healthy |
| Parents' wages: | Stepfather works for Newey's, Allison Street, and earns probably £2 per week; ought to pay 2s 6d per week |
| Amount parents agree tp pay: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Inspector Sullivan, Duke Street station, Birmingham |
| Relatives to communicate with: | Mother, as above |
| Person making this return: | D Meadon, Governor, Borough Gaol |
| Estimate of character on admission: | An unpromising look |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
28 January 1860 There is a report of his crime in the Birmingham Journal Saturday 28 January 1860, p.5, col.6: A DESIRE GRATIFIED. - William Quin, an intelligent looking lad, thirteen years of age, was charged with stealing £3 3s, the property of his master. Henry Humphries, fishmonger Wrottesley Street. It appeared that the lad went out with his master's son, who locked up the house when he went to buy some hay. The prisoner took his first opportunity of leaving his companion to return home, break into the house, and steal the money from a drawer. The prisoner pleaded guilty to the charge, and Sergeant Teggins, turnkey,stated that the prisoner had expressed a determi- nation of going to a Reformatory by some means or other. The boy having been previously convicted. Mr Kynnersley remarking that the prisons was very much mistaken if he supposed a Refor- matory was a pleasant place to go to, sent him to the House of Correction for fourteen days, and ordered him to be sent at the end of that time to a Reformatory for five years.
8 July1863 Licensed to work for Mr Newey, 39 Allison Street, Birmingham
14 September 1863 Taken to Plymouth to emigrate to Sydney on ship Ida
January 1865 Letter to his mother, is doing well
January 1866 Letter to his mother, is doing well
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