| No. in Admissions Register: | 223 |
| Date of admission: | 10 July 1861 |
| Whence received: | Walsall Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | - |
| Hair colour: | - |
| Eyes colour: | - |
| Perfect vision? | - |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Sound intellect? | - |
| Use of all limbs? | - |
| Had cow or small pox? | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| Cutaneous disorder? | - |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | - |
| Subject to fits? | - |
| Age last birthday: | 14 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Walsall |
| Parish he belongs to: | - |
| Customary work and mode of life: | - |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Vagrancy |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Neglect of parents |
| Date of sentence: | 27 June 1861 |
| Where convicted: | Walsall, H Highway and W Ward |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison, 4 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | - |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Both parents have abandoned their son |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
29 June 1861 There is a report of an offence in the Walsall Free Press and General Adveriser Saturday 29 June 1861 p.3 cols3-4: STREET ARABS - Edward Hartop, James Hawkins, and John Brennan ere charged with vagrancy. Police Constable No.14 stated that, about one o'clock on Tuesday morning, he found the prisoners sleeping in Marsh-lane. He took them into custody. Mr. Cater stated that Hartop had been sent from this court to reformatory, some time since, but he could not be received there in consequence of a very bad heel he had. The heel was now well. Something should be done for the boy, as he had neither home nor friends. Mrs. Hawkins, the step- mother of one of the prisoners, begged that her step-son might be let off and she and his father would endeavour to see that he led a more regular life, Mrs. Brennan then appeared and said her son had worked very steadily during the winter, but when the fine weather came on, he went away with other boys to idle about the country. His father and herself had in vain tied him up and locked him up-he always managed to escape. The Bench dismissed Hawkins and Brennan with a caution, and Hartop was sentenced to be imprisoned for fourteen days.
17 February 1864 Licensed but returned after a few days
21 April 1864 Licensed to work for Mr John Walker, bridle cutter, Littleton Street, Walsall
May 1867 Gone off from Walsall on tramp
January 1868 On board the Impregnable [a training ship] about to be transferred to the Canopus [an old Royal Navy ship, laid up in Devonport]
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