| No. in Admissions Register: | 265 |
| Date of admission: | 2 November 1863 |
| Whence received: | Warwick Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | 4 ft 6 in |
| Figure: | Proportionate |
| Complexion: | Dark |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Dark |
| 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: | End of left forefinger contracted |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 14 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Darby's Yard, Gooch Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | - |
| Customary work and mode of life: | - |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | A little |
| Writes: | None |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | House breaking |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence: | 20 October 1863 |
| Where convicted: | Warwick Quarter Sessions |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Stealing money (1859, 1 day and whipped) |
| Father's name: | Francis Harrington |
| Occupation: | Shoemaker |
| Residence: | Darby's Yard, Gooch Street, Birmingham |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
22 October 1863 There is a report of the offence in the Birmingham Daily Gazette Thursday 22 October 1863 p.7 col.3: George Harrington, 14, and Edward Johnson, 14, pleaded guilty to breaking into the house of George Holloway, at Aston, on the 20th of August last, and stealing a candlestick and saucepan. The prisoners were each sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment in the gaol, and at the expiration of that term, Harrington to be sent to the Saltley Reformatory, and Johnson to the one at Weston,
7 January 1866 Emigrated to Canada
August 1867 Heard of and from him, Richmond Junction, Canada. Doing well
November 1869 Heard of and from him. Doing well
January 1870 Heard of and from him. Doing well
April 1875 Heard from him, Valley Fields Paper Mill, Canada, P Q [Province of Quebec]
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