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Edward Cotterill - Saltley Reformatory Inmate

No. in Admissions Register: 108
Date of admission: 19 June 1857
Whence received: Birmingham Borough Gaol
By whom brought: -
On what terms: Committed
Friends interested in him: -
Description:
Height -
Figure: -
Complexion: Sallow
Hair colour: Dark brown
Eyes colour: Grey
Perfect vision? Yes
State of health: -
Able-bodied? Yes
Sound intellect? Yes
Use of all limbs? Yes
Had cow or small pox? Vaccinated
Particular marks: Small scars on left upper arm, 2 small moles on right side neck
Cutaneous disorder? No
Scrofulous or consumptive? No
Subject to fits? No
Age last birthday: 13
Illegitimate? No
Birthday: -
Birth place: not known
Has resided: Lancaster Street, Birmingham
Parish to which he belongs: Not known
Customary work and mode of life: Gun finisher
Schools attended: None
By whom and where employed: Unknown
State of education:
Reads: Scarcely knows his letters
Writes -
Cyphers: -
General ability: -
Offence: Vagrancy
Circumstances which may have led to it: Not known
Date of sentence: 6 June 1857
Where convicted Moor Street Police Court, before J Ratcliffe and W Lucy, Esqs
Sentence: 14 days in prison, 2 years at Saltley
Where imprisoned: -
Previous committals and convictions: None
Father's name: -
Occupation: -
Residence: -
Mother's name: -
Occupation: -
Residence: -
Father's character: -
Mother's character: -
Parents dead? Both
Survivor married again? -
Parents' treatment of child: -
Character of parents: -
Parents' wages: -
Weekly amount parents will pay: -
Superintendent of police (to collect payments):      -
Relatives to communicate with: -
Person making this return: D Meaden for Borough Gaol, Birmingham
Estimate of character on admission: Rather promising
Character on discharge: -
When and how left the Reformatory: 9 May 1859 - Emigrated to Canada


Notes:

8 June 1857 There is a brief report of his crime in Aris's Birmingham Gazette Monday 8 June 1857 p.4 col.6: Edward Cotterill, aged 13, by trade a gun-finisher, was convicted of attempting to pick pockets in Smithfield, and sentenced to fourteen days imprisonment, and two years detention in the Reformatory.
 
1 September 1857 name on Good Conduct List
 
20 December 1858 The Reformatory Minute Book states: 551. Mr Humphreys reported that he had sent Edward Cotterill to the Queen's Hospital [on 14 December] with scarlet fever 8 days ago and that the signs of infection had since shown themselves in the House. Cotterill is recovering.
 
9 May 1859 emigrated to Canada with Tranford [boy 102], Beard [boy 105], etc.
 
18 December 1860 The Reformatory Minute Book states: 735. Letters were read from George Bolt [boy 110], now a sailor in a vessel trading between New York and Havre, containing information respecting his own career and that of Benjamin Tranford [boy 102], now a successful butcher in Toronto, and Cotterill [boy 108], now a cook on board a large steamer in America [a note in the Admissions Register says he is on the Lakes aboard the Great Western, Captain James, at 80 dollars a month and other advantages], and Walker [boy 47] and Carlton [boy 91], who are doing well and employed by a farmer at New Orleans, and Beard [boy 105], who is now in prison in Kingston for stealing, and Dempsey [boy 86], who drowned himself through ill-usage on board a ship from New York to Havre.
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