| No. in Admissions Register: | 260 |
| Date of admission: | 4 August 1863 |
| Whence received: | Stafford County Prison |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Light |
| Hair colour: | Light brown |
| Eyes colour: | Dark |
| Perfect vision? | Yes |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | Yes |
| Use of all limbs? | Yes |
| Had cow or small pox? | Yes |
| Particular marks: | Cut in the middle of forehead |
| Cutaneous disorder? | No |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | No |
| Subject to fits? | No |
| Age last birthday: | 12 |
| Illegitimate? | No |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Workhouse Lane, Wednesbury |
| Parish he belongs to: | Wednesbury |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Labourer in a forge |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | A little |
| Writes: | A little |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing iron |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence: | 21 July 1863 |
| Where convicted: | Wednesbury |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | - |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Several charges (1 month) |
| Father's name: | James Bird |
| Occupation: | Railway labourer |
| Residence: | Workhouse Lane, Wednesbury |
| Mother's name: | Elizabeth Bird |
| Occupation: | - |
| Residence: | - |
| Father's character: | Given to drink |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | Neither |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | - |
| Character of parents | Nothing known against them. Father's health bad |
| Parents' wages: | 18s a week when in work |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | The magistrate will make inquiry. At present he is of opinion the father is not capable of paying anything |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | Inspector Holland, police station Wednesbury |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
18 April 1863 There is a short report of his previous offence in the Staffordshire Advertiser Saturday 18 April 1863 p.2 col.7: William Bird, a lad eleven years of age, was charged with wilfully damaging railway waggons, the property of Messrs. Lloyd, Foster and Co. On Sunday week the prisoner, with two other lads removed the "scotches" from the wheels of some of the Great Western Railway Company's waggons standing near the prosecutor's works, and also released the breaks. The waggons, which were situated at the top of an incline, were in consequence set in motion, and with some violence descended the incline and struck the prosecutor's property, doing damage to the amount of about £11. Prisoner was sentenced to one month's hard labour.
3 August 1868 Discharged
August 1869 At Wednesbury. Doubtful [character]
January 1871 At Wednesbury. Good
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