| No. in Admissions Register: | 112 |
| Date of admission: | 31 August 1857 |
| Whence received: | Liverpool Borough Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | Committed |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Sandy |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Vaccinated |
| Particular marks: | Cut on right side of forehead |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 13 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | Liverpool |
| Has resided: | 19 St David's Place, Copperas Street, Liverpool |
| Parish to which he belongs: | Liverpool |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Always at school |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Fairly |
| Writes: | Very little |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing 2s 6d; vagrancy |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Not known |
| Date of sentence: | 17 July 1857 |
| Where convicted: | Liverpool, J S Mansfield, Esq, Police Magistrate |
| Sentence: | 46 days in prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Previous committals and convictions: | None |
| Father's name: | William Boyce |
| Occupation: | Cabinet maker |
| Residence: | St David's Place, Copperas Street, Liverpool |
| Mother's name: | - |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Fathe's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Bad |
| Character of parents: | - |
| Parents' wages: | 28s per week |
| Weekly amount parents will pay | - |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | Rev. Thomas Carter, Chaplain, Liverpool Gaol |
| Estimate of character on admission: | Looks quiet and stupid |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
6 Jun 1861 Name on Good Conduct List
1 Oct 1857. Rather peevish tempered. Absconded with 137 [Joseph Berry] and 153 [Thomas Willson]. All three went into my room and took the key of the larder and helped themselves. The shoemaker let them run away while in his care, after they knew I was aware of this misconduct but before I had spoken to them.
8 Jun 1861 Brought back by the Walsall police
1 Sep 1862 Left and returned to Liverpool
24 Feb 1863 Heard from William West that Boyce often comes to his house on a Sunday and is doing well.
1 Sep 1863 Wrote to the tailor - lives at 9 Buckingham Place, Fitzroy Square, Mary-le-Bone. Works at 116 Tottenham Court Road, for 7s a week.
22 Sep 1863 Saw him at that address and had a good character of him.
1 Jan 1864 Heard from him.
8 Jan 1865 Heard from him in same place - has 8s a week. A very touching, sensible letter.
1 Apr 1865 Heard of his robbing his master of £35 and other property. There is a report of this crime in the North London News Saturday 8 April 1865 p.3 col.6: ROBBERY BY A SERVANT. - William Boyce, 21, porter, was indicted for stealing £35, the moneys of Charlotte Pbillipeon, his mistress. He pleaded guilty. The prisoner was taken almost out of charity by Mrs. Phillipson, a perfumer, of Tottenbam-court-road, having been in a reformatory for five years; and on the 20th of May the prisoner had £35 handed to him, in different parcels, to pay bills, but he never returned. He was subsequently taken into custody at Liverpool, with £23 of the money in his possession. The Assistant-Judge sentenced him to twelve months hard labour.
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