| No. in Admissions Register: | 384 |
| Date of admission: | 20 October 1868 |
| Whence received: | Warwick Gaol |
| By whom brought: | - |
| On what terms: | - |
| Friends interested in him: | - |
| Description: | |
| Height: | - |
| Figure: | - |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Perfect vision? | - |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Sound intellect? | - |
| Use of all limbs? | - |
| Had cow or small pox? | - |
| Particular marks: | Scar on upper lip |
| Cutaneous disorder? | - |
| Scrofulous or consumptive? | - |
| Subject to fits? | - |
| Age last birthday: | 10 |
| Illegitimate? | - |
| Birthday: | - |
| Birth place: | - |
| Has resided: | Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | - |
| Customary work and mode of life: | - |
| Schools attended: | - |
| By whom and where employed: | - |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Not at all |
| Writes: | Not at all |
| Cyphers: | - |
| General ability: | - |
| Offence: | Stealing 4s 9d from a shop |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | Bad company |
| Date of sentence: | 7 October 1868 |
| Where convicted: | Aston before J J Lloyd and C Ratcliff |
| Who prosecuted: | - |
| Where imprisoned: | - |
| Sentence: | 14 days prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals and convictions: | Garden robbing (7 days) |
| Father's name: | Michael Drury |
| Occupation: | Bricklayer's labourer |
| Residence: | Gone on tramp; 13 court 2 house Inge Street, Birmingham |
| Mother's name: | Ann Drury |
| Occupation: | Hatter |
| Residence: | The Gullet, Cheapside, Birmingham |
| Father's character: | - |
| Mother's character: | - |
| Parents dead? | No |
| Survivor married again? | - |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Bad by father |
| Character of parents | - |
| Parents' wages: | Father 21s; mother 18s to 20s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | None |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | G Glossop, Moor Street, Birmingham |
| Relatives to communicate with: | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
| Estimate of character on admission: | - |
| Character on discharge: | - |
| When and how left the Reformatory: | - |
8 October 1868 There is a report about the crime in the Birmingham Daily Post Thursday 8 October 1868 p.6 col.6: Thomas Drury (10) was charged with stealing 4s 9d, the property of Henry Southall, corn dealer, Aston New Tows. Prosecutor said that on Saturday he was entering his shop when he saw prisoner on the counter, and the till drawer was open. On seeing witness the prisoner let the money fall and burst into tears. He pleaded guilty, and said a bigger boy "got him on." His mother said she had always found him honest. His father was a drunken man. and had left her with five children, the prisoner being the eldest. Up to the time of the Factory Acts coming into operation the lad went to work, but now he ran about, as she could not afford to send him to school.- Mr. Lloyd said the lad laboured under great disadvantages at home, and the best thing they could do for him was to send him to a Reformatory. He would therefore be sent to prison for fourteen days, and afterwards to a Reformatory School for five years, where he would kept out of bad company, and have an opportunity of commencing well in life.
23 November 1874 Called at the school. Is working at rolling mills, Selly Oak
16 August 1881 Drury calls and tells me he is and has been out of employment for some considerable time - has tr[amped?] from London, is now making his way to Nottingham. I gave him 2s to help him on his way [signature of master]
6 June 1887 Drury called today, lived at 23 Trumpet(?) Street, Nottingham about 4 years. Is out of work. Gave him 2s to provide for [….] and a bed. H J Fish
18 June [no year given] Drury called today in great poverty, with good testaments (?) 5/6
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