| No. in Admissions Register: | 509 |
| Age: | 15 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Prison |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | - |
| Hair colour: | - |
| Eyes colour: | - |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Date of admission and term: | 14 May 1874 5 years |
| Late residence: | back of 40 Upper Hospital Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Brass founding |
| Whether illegitimate: | Not |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Stealing a basket |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 1 May 1874, Birmingham Police Court, T C S Kynnersley |
| Where imprisoned: | Birmingham Borough Prison |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | One |
| Length: | 4 days |
| For what: | Stone throwing |
| Father's name: | Dead |
| Occupation: | - |
| Mother's name: | Dead |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Parents address: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
2 May 1874 There is a short report of his crime, with a different first name give, and a different spelling of his surname, in the Birmingham Daily Post Saturday 2 May 1874 p.7 col.3: A boy named Reuben Somerfleld [surname spelled thus], and another named Frank McMahon, were charged with being in company with the last prisoner, and stealing certain articles of clothing, which were in the shop, belonging to the workmen. They both pleaded guilty. Somerfield was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment, and afterwards five years in a reformatory. McMahon, who was led astray by the others, was discharged with a caution.
16 January 1881 In the 6th Royal Regiment, 2351 1st Battalion, Warley Bessock, Essex
15 May [no year given - 1881?] Summerfield writes to the tailor, Mr Blake, to say that he is doing very well in the PB(?) Royal Regiment, Hertes Hospital, Woolwich. He is just now attending to clothing for the Army Hospital Corps
23 June 1881 Writes to the tailor, J Blake, and says that Lockley [boy 491] is anxious to enlist.
25 August 1886 Visited, as now in Army Reserve
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