| No. in Admissions Register: | 168 |
| Date of admission: | 18 April 1860 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | Stout |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | - |
| Eyes colour: | Blue |
| 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: | - |
| Cutaneous disorder? | Yes |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 15 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | 1 January 1845 |
| Birth place: | Birmingham |
| Has resided: | 4 court Newhall Street |
| Parish to which he belongs: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Gun nipple maker |
| Schools attended: | Central National School, Sheffield |
| By whom and where employed: | Mr Reeves, Charlotte Street, St Paul's, Birmingham |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing a shirt and a pair of trousers |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence: | 19 March 1860 |
| Where convicted: | Moor Street |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 1 month prison, 5 years detention at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Stealing 10s (3 months) |
| Father's name: | John Clarke [stepfather] |
| Occupation: | Engine fitter at Brown & Marshall's |
| Residence: | 4 court Newhall Street, Birmingham |
| Mother's name: | Sarah Clarke |
| Occupation: | Shoe binder |
| Residence: | 4 court Newhall Street, Birmingham |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Father |
| Survivor married again? | No |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Stepfather turned him out |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | Stepfather earns 16s per week. Mother does shoe binding |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s 6d per week. There are two other children and another near confinement |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | T C S Kymmersley, Esq., |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
20 March 1860 There is a report of his crime in the Birmingham Daily Post Tuesday 20 March 1860 p.3 col.2: Robbing A Parent.- A young lad, only 15 years of age, named Frederick Smallwood, whose parents live in Newhall Street, was proved to have stolen from his father's house a sheet and a pair of trousers, which he had subsequently pledged for 1s. This was a lamentable affair, for the mother stated that he could, by honest labour, get 8s. per week, but he preferred a life of idleness and crime; he had become one of the lot of shoeblacks, and associated with bad characters. Mr. Kynnersley said the necessary steps must be taken to send him to a Reformatory school, and his father (or rather his step-father) would be called upon to contribute a certain sum towards the boy's maintenance.
5 June 1862 Emigrated to Canada
14 August 1862 Heard from him, working for a farmer, Mr A McKinlay, Caledon East, Upper Canada. Gets 4 dollars a month and 'plenty of the best to eat.'
12 December 1862 Heard from him again. Nice long letter, still in good employ and good spirits. Says late master sold up. Present master Mr G Wright, Brampton, Canada West
3 October 1863 Called at the school, having returned from Canada
August 1866 In barracks at Preston, a soldier
October 1867 Discharged. Hawking fish in Birmingham - still honest.
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