| No. in Admissions Register: | 219 |
| Date of admission: | 22 May 1861 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms:'''''' | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | ' |
| Height:' | - |
| Figure: ' | - |
| Complexion:' | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | 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: | Dark mole on right arm |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 12 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | 42 Lancaster Street, Walmer Lane, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Gas fitting |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | ' |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| General ability: | Imperfectly |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing a workbox and guard chain |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence: | 9 May 1861 |
| Where convicted: | Birmingham, T C S Kynnersley |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Stealing 8 pigeons (3 days and whipped) |
| Father's name: | Henry Collins (stepfather) |
| Occupation: | Gas fitter |
| Residence: | 42 Lancaster Street, Birmingham |
| Mother's name: | Elizabeth Collins |
| Occupation: | Lacquerer |
| Residence: | 42 Lancaster Street, Birmingham |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Both |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Worked with his stepfather and was well looked after |
| Character of parents | Hard working man and woman |
| Parents' wages: | Stepfather 18s per week, mother 6s |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | An order to be made |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | G Glossop |
| 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: | - |
10 May 1861 There is a report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Post Friday 10 May 1861 p.3 col.2: A COUPLE OF JUVENILE THIEVES. -Two boys named William Collins and James Robins, pleaded guilty to stealing a work box, containing a guard chain and other articles, from the house of Thomas Kimberlin, a labourer, residing In Love Lane. It seems tbat on the previous evening the prisoners went to the prosecutor's house on an errand. The house was left in charge of a little girl, who went out of the kitchen to fetch a garment for the prisoners. and during her absence they took a work-box containing tbe guard chain and some pledge tickets. Collins, who bore a good character, was discharged, with a caution, but Robins, who has been in custody before for felony, was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment, and after the expiration of that term, to be sent to a Reformatory
29 July 1865 Licensed to work for his mother
July 1867 Called at the school - seemed to be doing pretty well
July 1868 Called at the school - seemed to be doing well working for a gunmaker in Whittall Street
October 1868 Called at the school
November 1869 Called at the school - seemed to be doing well working for a gunmaker in Whittall Street
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