| No. in Admissions Register: | 186 |
| Date of admission: | 7 October 1860 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Gaol |
| By whom brought: | Deputy Governor |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Dark brown |
| Eyes colour: | Hazel |
| 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? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 11 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | 12 Branston Street, Birmingham |
| Parish to which he belongs: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Jeweller |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | None |
| Writes: | None |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Vagrancy |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Not known |
| Date of sentence: | 24 September 1860 |
| Where convicted: | Birmingham |
| Where imprisoned: | Borough Gaol |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison, 5 years detention at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None |
| Father's name: | Lewis Smith |
| Occupation: | Jeweller |
| Residence: | 12 Branston Street, Birmingham |
| Mother's name: | Emily Smith |
| Occupation: | None |
| Residence: | 12 Branston Street, Birmingham |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | No |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | Believed to be good. Has a large family and is much from house. |
| Parents' wages: | Not known |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Father expressed his willingness to pay 2s per week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | G Glossop, Police constable, Birmingham |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | T C S Kynnersley |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
25 September 1860 There is a report of his offence in the Birmingham Daily Post Tuesday 25 September 1860 p.3 col.1: SLEEPING OUT. - A batch of lade, their ages varying from ten to seventeen, named Thomas .Sayers, George Smith, Jesse Smith, Henry Smith, and Charles Thurstans, were charged with sleeping in some premises in Great Queen Street on Sunday evening. Sayers, the oldest of the lot, although bearing a bad character, was discharged, and Thurstans was remanded until today. The parents of the other prisoners were in Court, and gave their sons very bad characters. George Smith and Henry Smith were sent to gaol for fourteen days, and afterwards to a reformatory school for five years. Jesse Smith, who was much younger, was discharged.
7 October 1865 Discharged
July 1867 Called at the school. Doing well.
27 October 1867 Heard from - in rather poor circumstances.
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