| No. in Admissions Register: | 62 |
| Date of admission: | 18 January 1855 |
| Weekly payments: | - |
| Age: | 15 |
| Education: | None |
| Previous employment: | Spring blacker and errand boy |
| Crimes, how often and in what prison: | 3 |
| Training in reformatory: | 22 May 1857 |
| When left reformatory: | Garden |
| Parentage and family: | Father and Mother living |
| Residence: | Lawrence St. [Birmingham] |
| Trade of father: | Striker |
| With whom the boy is placed: | Captain Grindle, Sydney, Australia |
| Address: | - |
| Trade: | - |
Notes:
| 6 January 1855 There is a very brief mention of the crime that sent him to Saltley in the Birmingham Journal Saturday 6 January 1855 p.7 col.1: William Beech, for stealing, at Birmingham, a purse and 10s. 4½d., the property of James Long; sent to the Reformatory School for three years. |
| 3 June 1857 The Reformatory Minute Book records: As to Minute 442, the Visitors have sanctioned the sending out of the boys William Beech and James Hill [boy 89], who have gone to Australia. |