| No. in Admissions Register: | 250 |
| Date of admission: | 5 March 1863 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Dark brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | Ruptured |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Cowpox |
| Particular marks: | Mole on left shoulder |
| Cutaneous disorder? | Yes |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 14 |
| Illegitimate? | Yes |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | 10 Sheepcote Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | - |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | - |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | A case of valentines |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence: | - |
| Where convicted: | - |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None – but is a known associate of crime |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Mother's name: | Mary Ann Mansfield |
| Occupation: | Prostitute |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | Since August 1858 has been 18 times to the Police Court |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | “Would be idle to make an order” |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| 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: | - |
21 February 1863 There is a brief report of the theft in the Birmingham Journal Saturday 21 February 1863 p.7 col.7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY.-Two little boys, named Thomas Stuart, brass caster, residing in King Street, and John Mansfield, errand boy, living in Sheepcote Street, were charged with having stolen a glass case, containing valentines, from the shop of Mrs. Tysall, 48, Essex Street- The prisoners pleaded guilty, and were convicted. Mansfield was ordered to be imprisoned for fourteen days, and at the expiration of that time to be sent to a reformatory school for five years. The other prisoner was remanded till Monday, in order that his parents might lie communicated with. Shoplifting.
7 June 1866 Emigrated to Canada
May 1867 Called at the school
October 1867 Called at the school
December 1869 Called at the school. Good [character]
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