| No. in Admissions Register: | 225 |
| Date of admission: | 22 August 1861 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Light |
| Hair colour: | Light brown |
| Eyes colour: | Hazel |
| Perfect vision? | No |
| State of health: | Tender - [can't read word] |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Dull |
| Use of all limbs? | Motion awkward |
| Had cow or small pox? | Smallpox |
| Particular marks: | Pockmarked |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | Not apparent |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 11 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Bradley, Sedgley |
| Parish he belongs to: | Sedgley |
| Customary work and mode of life: | - |
| Schools attended: | None |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing iron under mother's direction |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Poverty |
| Date of sentence: | 2 August 1861 |
| Where convicted: | Bilston Petty Sessions, J K Bagnall and H Ward |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | Stafford |
| Sentence: | 21 days prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None known |
| Father's name: | James Williamson |
| Occupation: | Collier |
| Residence: | Hall Bank, Bradley, Bilston |
| Mother's name: | Harriet Williamson |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | Hall Bank, Bradley, Bilston |
| Father's character: | Nothing known |
| Mother's character: | Nothing known |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Not known |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | From 12s to 21s per week, when in work |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Hugh McCrea, Bilston |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | J W Hall, Bilston |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
10 August 1861 There is a brief report of the offence in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 10 August 1861 p.5 col.2: A DISHONEST MOTHER. -Harriet Williamson, Paul Griffiths, and James Williamson, were charged at the petty sessions on Friday with stealing iron on the previous Monday from the Bank Ironworks, the property of Messrs. Groucutt. The prisoner Paul Griffiths gave evidence against the two other offenders. He said that the prisoner Harriet Williamson had sent him and her boy James to steal the iron. Harriet Williamson was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment, and her boy to 21 days' imprisonment, and afterwards to be sent to the reformatory for five years.
30 November 1865 Licensed
January 1868 Bradley, Bilston. Doing well
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