| No. in Admissions Register: | 266 |
| Date of admission: | 9 November 1863 |
| Whence received: | Stafford |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Light |
| Hair colour: | Light |
| Eyes colour: | Blue |
| Perfect vision? | Not |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Smallpox |
| Particular marks: | Burns on arms |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | Yes |
| Subject to fits? | Not |
| Age last birthday: | 15 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Bilston |
| Parish he belongs to: | Willenhall |
| Customary work and mode of life: | - |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Very imperfectly |
| Writes: | Very imperfectly |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing Union [workhouse] clothing |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Left an orphan at an early age |
| Date of sentence: | 9 October 1863 |
| Where convicted: | Bilston, before G Pudsey, A Pudsey, A Sparrow |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 1 month, 2 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and | - |
| Father's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Both |
| 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: | - |
10 October 1863 There is a brief report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Post Saturday 10 October 1863 p.4 col.3: MAGISTERIAL. - Yesterday, at the Bilston Petty Sessions a boy of fifteen years, named Thomas Beards, was convicted of having run away from the Union Workhouse, wearing the Union clothing. As he had been previously convicted, he was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, and ordered to be afterwards kept in a Reformatory for two years.
22 January 1865 Emigrated to Canada
January 1868 Not heard of
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