| No. in Admissions Register: | 159 |
| Date of admission: | 8 November 1859 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Gaol |
| By whom brought: | An officer |
| On what terms: | Under committal |
| Friends interested in him: | |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | - |
| Hair colour: | - |
| Eyes colour: | - |
| Perfect vision? | - |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Sound intellect? | - |
| Use of all limbs? | - |
| Had cow or small pox? | - |
| Particular marks: | - |
| Cutaneous disorder? | - |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | - |
| Subject to fits? | - |
| Age last birthday: | 15 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | 3 Nov 1844 |
| Birth place: | Birmingham |
| Has resided: | 2 Love Lane |
| Parish to which he belongs: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Painter |
| Schools attended: | Stephen's ,private 4d per week |
| By whom and where employed: | Mr Edwards, Summer Lane |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | - |
| Writes: | - |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Larceny |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence: | 25 October 1859 |
| Where convicted: | Borough sessions |
| Where imprisoned: | Birmingham Gaol |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison, 5 years detention at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Stealing cigars; breaking a window; stealing a loaf |
| Father's name: | William Lee |
| Occupation | Tailor |
| Residence: | Love Lane, Aston Road, Birminghsm |
| Mother's name: | Martha Lee or Colesby |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | Love Lane, Aston Road, Birminghsm |
| Father's character: | Drunken |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Own father, Frederick Colesby, died 9 years ago. Boy says he was minister of St George's. |
| Survivor married again? | Mother supposed to be married to W. Lee above mentioned |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents: | - |
| Parents' wages: | Mother keeps a small provision shop. Stepfather earns about 12s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | 1s per week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | No return was sent |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
31 October 1859 There is a report of his offence in Aris's Birmingham Gazette Monday 31 October 1859 p.4 col.5: A REFORMATORY WANTED. - Afred Colesby, 15, was charged with stealing a silk pocket handkerchief from the shop of Mr Reed, pawnbroker, Aston Street. The case was clearly proved. The boy having been twice summarily convicted, the Recorder sent for Mr Meaden, Governor of the Gaol, and asked him if it was not possible to send the prisoner to a Reformatory. - Mr Meaden replied that if the boy was stouter he might be sent on board the Akbar Reformatory training ship; he (Mr Meaden) knew of no other place to which the boy could be sent. The Reformatories were all full. - The Recorder said he was speaking with one of the Managers of a Reformatory the other day, and was told, in answer to a question, that there was room in that particular building for many more than the present number of inmates. - Mr Meaden: I have no doubt there is room, but there is a difficulty about the weekly payments. - The Recorder: but do you not obtain 2s 6d or 3s per week from the borough in such a case? - Mt Meaden: the borough has no fund for that purpose. - The learned Recorder then despatched a messenger for the Mayor, having consulted with him on the point, afterwards committing the delinquent to the Saltley Reformatory for five years.
5 June 1862 Emigrated to Canada
14 August 1862 Smallwood says in his letter that Colesby is with a butcher at Toronto at 17s 6d a month
24 November 1862 Had a letter from him. Is in the service of Mr J Wickson of Toronto, Canada. Went at 4 dollars a month
7 September 1863 Heard of doing well at shoemaking
September 1865 Heard of doing well at shoemaking
21 December 1889 Alfred Colesby called this morning, having come over from Chicago this week on a Christmas visit to his mother who now lives at 113 Pope Street. He is now a prosperous shoemaker living at 3107 Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago, and is owner of six good houses, besides having a pension of 8 dollars a week from the US Army, having served 14 years as a soldier. He has three children: a daughter, 20, a son 17, and a daughter, 16. His wife died four years ago. He is going back again by Cunard steamer Aurania from Liverpool on 11 January.
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