| No. in Admissions Register: | 510 |
| Age: | 15 |
| Whence received: | Birmingham Prison |
| Description: | |
| Complexion: | Fresh |
| Hair colour: | Dark brown |
| Eyes colour: | Grey |
| Visage: | - |
| Particular marks: | Mole on right shoulder |
| State of health: | Good |
| Able-bodied? | Yes |
| Date of admission and term: | 19 May 1874 5 years |
| Late residence: | Floodgate Street, Birmingham |
| Parish he belongs to: | Birmingham |
| Customary work and mode of life: | Brass casting |
| Whether illegitimate: | Not |
| State of education: | |
| Reads: | Imperfectly |
| Writes: | Imperfectly |
| Offence: | Vagrancy |
| Circumstances which may have led to it: | - |
| Date of sentence, by who and court: | 29 April 1874, Birmingham Police Court, T C S Kynnersley |
| Where imprisoned: | Birmingham Borough Prison |
| Sentence: | 21 days prison (hard labour), 5 years at Saltley |
| Previous committals: | |
| Number: | One (14 February 1874) |
| Length: | 14 days hard labour |
| For what: | Stealing 6 valentines |
| Father's name: | Thomas Whitworth (stepfather) |
| Occupation: | Wire drawer |
| Mother's name: | Elizabeth Whitworth |
| Occupation: | Umbrella maker |
| Parents dead? | Own father |
| Survivor married again? | Yes |
| Parents' treatment of child: | Kind |
| Character of parents | Honest, sober, and industrious |
| Parents' wages: | About £2 10s per week |
| Amount parents agree to pay: | Not stated |
| Parents address: | Floodgate Street, Birmingham |
| Superintendent of police (to collect payments): | - |
| Person making this return: | - |
16 February 1874 A previous offence was reported in the Birmingham Daily Post Monday 16 February 1874: ROBBING A LETTER BOX. - Michael McDonnell (14), Alcester Street, John Squelch (15), no home, and John Ba… [too faded to read] (13), Alcester Street, were charge with stealing six valentines from the Post Office at Deritend, the property of the Postmaster-General. - It appeared that the letter-box was choked with letters and valentines on Friday, and the prisoners found it a very easy matter to extract half a dozen. The prisoners were further charged with being in company with another boy, named Albert Bennett of Bromsgrove Street, and stealing soap and candles from the cellar of Mr. William Bindley, grocer, Long Street, Sparkbrook..- The prisoners were sentenced to fourteen days imprisonment each.
22 May 1879 Emigrated from Liverpool by Sarmatian for Toronto. Considered discharged, as he would be 9 days on passage
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