| No. in Admissions Register: | 259 |
| Date of admission: | 18 July 1863 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | Proportionate |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Dark brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Cowpox |
| Particular marks: | Scars on body |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 14 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | 26 Buck Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | - |
| Customary work and mode of life: | - |
| Schools attended: | St Chad's (6 months) |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | None |
| Writes: | None |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Larceny |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence: | 29 June 1863 |
| Where convicted: | Moor Street, before T C S Kynnersley |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 21 days prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | One |
| Father's name: | Thomas Hopkins |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Residence: | 26 Buck Street, Birmingham |
| Mother's name: | (Mary Hopkins |
| Occupation: | Rag gatherer |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Good |
| Mother's character: | Good |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | Father has bad health |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Not considered able to pay anything |
| 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: | - |
13 April 1863 There is a report of his previous offence in the Birmingham Daily Gazette Monday 13 April 1863 p.3 col.3: STEALING CIGARS FROM A SHOP. - Thomas Hopkins, 13, living in Buck Street, pleaded guilty to stealing a quantity of cigars from the shop of Mr Hunt, of 54, Stafford Street, on the 11th ult. -The prisoner was sentenced to four days' imprisonment, and to receive twelve stripes with a birch rod, the prospect of which he did not seem to like.
30 June 1863 There is a short report of his crime in the Birmingham Daily Gazette Tuesday 30 June 1863 p.2 col.6: A YOUNG THIEF. - A lad thirteen years of age, who has been in prison several times, named Thomas Hopkins, living in Buck Street, was charged with stealing a pork pie from the shop of Mr Gerber, pork butcher, Constitution Hill. It appeared from the evidence that on Saturday evening the prisoner entered the prosecutor's shop under the pretence of making a purchase. Whilst the shopman's back was turned, the prisoner put a pork pie in his pocket. The pie being missed, the prisoner was followed, and caught with it in his possession. The prisoner was sent to prison for twenty-one days, afterwards to be confined in a reformatory for five years.
19 November 1864 Sent to Queen's Hospital, rheumatic fever and diseased leg bone
2 April 1865 Discharged from hospital. Leg useless and requiring amputation, but boy not able to bear the operation
13 February 1866 Heard of in the Borough Prison, Birmingham
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