| No. in Admissions Register: | 237 |
| Date of admission: | 29 June 1862 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Borough 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: | Moles on throat |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 14 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | 147 Vaughton Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Brickmaking |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfect |
| Writes: | Imperfect |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing a can |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence: | 9 June 1862 |
| Where convicted: | Birmingham Police Court, before T C S Kynnersley |
| Who prosecuted: | Charles Wright |
| Where imprisoned: | Borough Gaol |
| Sentence: | 21 days prison (hard labour), 4 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Stealing a pair of shoes (14 days hard labour) |
| Father's name: | Richard Grosvenor |
| Occupation: | Rule maker |
| Residence: | 147 Vaughton Street, Birmingham |
| Mother's name: | Dinah Grosvenor |
| Occupation: | Nil |
| Residence: | 147 Vaughton Street, Birmingham |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | Average 11s or 12s per week (One other child) |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Mr Glossop, 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: | - |
10 June 1862 There is a report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Post Tuesday 10 June 1862 p.2 col.7: THEFTS FROM BREWHOUSES.- Two lads, respectively named Frederick Grosvenor. residing in Vaughton Street, and William Perkins, living in Smith Street, were brought up on remand charged with having stolen several domestic utensils [a bag, a can, and other articles] from a brewhouse on the premises of Mr. Wright of Angelina Street, Vaughton's Hole. The prisoner Perkins pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to the House of Correction with hard labour for three months, and Grosvenor was ordered to be imprisoned for twenty-one days, and at the expiration of that term to be sent to a reformatory school for four years. [NB A brewhouse in Birmingham was a small outhouse with a copper bowl that could be heated, used usually for doing laundry]
17 October 1866 Got into bad company again, and in conjunction with two others was convicted at Warwick Sessions of house breaking and sentenced to 2 years penal servitude
November 1868 Called at the school. Seeking work
July 1869 Conduct doubtful
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