| No. in Admissions Register: | 247 |
| Date of admission: | 28 January 1863 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | - |
| Hair colour: | - |
| Eyes colour: | - |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | - |
| Able-bodied? | - |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Not |
| Particular marks: | - |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 12 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Bembridge's Court, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Dudley |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Not any |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing trousers |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence: | 15 January 1863 |
| Where convicted: | Moor Street, Birmingham |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison, 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Stealing fireworks |
| Father's name: | Frederick Sharp |
| Occupation: | Wire worker |
| Residence: | Bembridge's Court, Bull Ring, Birmingham |
| Mother's name: | Margaret Sharp |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | - |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | Small and uncertain. |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Perhaps be able to pay 6d or 1s a week |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | G Glossop |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | T C S Kynnersley |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
[In the newspaper report of the crime, his first name is given as William. In the 1861 census, there is a son, William, of the right age and no Frederick other than the father. An error in the Admissions Register?]
16 January 1863 There is a report of the crime in the Birmingham Daily Post Friday 16 January 1863 p.2 col.5: ROBBERY FROM A SHOP DOOR. - Two little lads, twelve or thirteen years of age, named George Field and William Sharp, described as having no fixed residence, were charged with having stolen two pairs of trousers from the shop door of Mr. Harrison, clothier, New Town Row. The prisoners were seen to take the goods and run away with them. They were followed and given into custody. Sharp was ordered to be imprisoned with hard labour for twenty-one days, and at the expiration of that term to be sent to a Reformatory School for four years; and Field was committed to the House of Correction, with hard labour, for three months.
27 January 1868 Discharged
October 1870 In Birmingham. Doing well
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