| No. in Admissions Register: | 246 |
| Date of admission: | 26 January 1863 |
| Whence received: | Stafford Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Blue |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Cowpox |
| Particular marks: | Cut on forehead |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 11 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Marchington |
| Parish he belongs to: | Uttoxeter |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Labourer |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing money from a dwelling house, more than £5 |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Not known |
| Date of sentence: | 5 January 1863 |
| Where convicted: | Stafford Quarter Sessions |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 21 days prison, 3 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Mother's name: | Hannah Whitehead |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | Marchington Uttoxeter |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Father |
| Survivor married again? | Not |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Kind |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | 3s a week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Inspector Crisp, Uttoxeter |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
25 October 1862 There is a report of the crime in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 25 October 1862 p.7 col.5: ROBBERY BY A JUVENILE.-William Whitehead, of Marchington, a boy eleven years old, was charged with stealing a cheque for £9, a £5 note, and sum of £6 10s in gold and silver, the property of Mrs. Elizabeth Hulme, of Marchington, grocer and butcher. It appeared that the prosecutrix had left the money in a drawer in the house place where the family usually took their meals. The drawer was locked, but the key was left in, and the boy being about the house on the 13th instant, when the loss was discovered, he was at once suspected, and was apprehended at Draycott-ln-the-Clay on the 15tb instant with a great portion of the gold and silver upon him. The cheque and note he said he had burned. He pleaded guilty to the charge, and was fully committed to the Quarter Sessions.
25 January 1866 Discharged and returned to his friends
December 1868 Doing well at Marchington near Uttoxeter
December 1869 In Birmingham. Good [character]
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