| No. in Admissions Register: | 108 |
| Date of admission: | 19 June 1857 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Borough Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | Committed |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Sallow |
| Hair colour: | Dark brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Vaccinated |
| Particular marks: | Small scars on left upper arm, 2 small moles on right side neck |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 13 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | not known |
| Has resided: | Lancaster Street, Birmingham |
| Parish to which he belongs: | Not known |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Gun finisher |
| Schools attended: | None |
| By whom and where employed: | Unknown |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Scarcely knows his letters |
| Writes | - |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Vagrancy |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Not known |
| Date of sentence: | 6 June 1857 |
| Where convicted | Moor Street Police Court, before J Ratcliffe and W Lucy, Esqs |
| Sentence: | 14 days in prison, 2 years at Saltley |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None |
| 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: | - |
| Weekly amount parents will pay: | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | D Meaden for Borough Gaol, Birmingham |
| Estimate of character on admission: | Rather promising |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
8 June 1857 There is a brief report of his crime in Aris's Birmingham Gazette Monday 8 June 1857 p.4 col.6: Edward Cotterill, aged 13, by trade a gun-finisher, was convicted of attempting to pick pockets in Smithfield, and sentenced to fourteen days imprisonment, and two years detention in the Reformatory.
1 September 1857 name on Good Conduct List
20 December 1858 The Reformatory Minute Book states: 551. Mr Humphreys reported that he had sent Edward Cotterill to the Queen's Hospital [on 14 December] with scarlet fever 8 days ago and that the signs of infection had since shown themselves in the House. Cotterill is recovering.
9 May 1859 emigrated to Canada with Tranford [boy 102], Beard [boy 105], etc.
18 December 1860 The Reformatory Minute Book states: 735. Letters were read from George Bolt [boy 110], now a sailor in a vessel trading between New York and Havre, containing information respecting his own career and that of Benjamin Tranford [boy 102], now a successful butcher in Toronto, and Cotterill [boy 108], now a cook on board a large steamer in America [a note in the Admissions Register says he is on the Lakes aboard the Great Western, Captain James, at 80 dollars a month and other advantages], and Walker [boy 47] and Carlton [boy 91], who are doing well and employed by a farmer at New Orleans, and Beard [boy 105], who is now in prison in Kingston for stealing, and Dempsey [boy 86], who drowned himself through ill-usage on board a ship from New York to Havre.
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