| No. in Admissions Register: | 590 |
| Age: | 14 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Gaol |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Dark brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | Scar on forehead |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 12 December 1877 5 years |
| Late residence: | 12 house 8 court Howard's Place, Suffolk Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Bedstead making |
| Whether illegitimate: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Offence: | Stealing 7s 6d and till |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 22 November 1877, Moor Street, T C S Kynnersley |
| Where imprisoned: | Birmingham Prison |
| Sentence: | 21 days prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | One |
| Length: | 6 weeks |
| For what: | Stealing a timepiece |
| Father's name: | Dead |
| Occupation: | - |
| Mother's name: | Dead |
| Occupation: | - |
| Parents dead? | Both |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | - |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | - |
| Parents address: | Gone and unknown |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
23 November 1877 There is a report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Gazette Friday 23 November 1877 p.6 col.2: TILL ROBBERY, -Thomas Robinson (15), labourer, Howard's Place, was charged on remand with stealing a till containing 7s. 6d. from the shop of Robert Sidwell, 119, Lichfield Street.-The robbery was committed a week ago, and the prisoner was taken into custody by Police-constable Hathaway.- He was sent to gaol for 21 days, and ordered to be detained in a reformatory school for five years.
10 April [no year given] Received 6 strokes upon the posterior for talking about running away, also for inciting 9 others to become refractory
18 August 1881 Robinson licensed to Mr Kent, farmer and boot and shoe manufacturer, Chapel Farm, Olton
28 August 1881 Robinson calls and is highly pleased with his situation
13 November 1881 Robinson calls and takes away a pair of trousers for working in
13 February 1882 Received this day a good report from Mr Kent. The boy also calls
3 May 1882 Am informed that he thinks of leaving Mr Kent's employment
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