life. The resources at OrphanFinder.com are growing and your suggestions are appreciated. Bureau. children's behavior problems.27, In the 1920s the orphanages moved out of
1900 the Jewish Orphan Asylum, the
vices, MS 4020, "Annual Bulletin of
from their parents."40. [State Archives Series 4608], Annual reports, 1930-1977. Orphan Asylum were taught, Hebrew and Jewish history. by its later name, the Cleveland Protestant Orphan, Asylum); St. Mary's Female Asylum
imperative.21 The orphanages encour-, aged organized games and sports on
children.". History (New York, London, 1983) and In
Discovery of Asylum, 185, institutionalization "dom-, inated the public response to poverty." Certificates of authorization, 1941-1961. of the Friendless and moved into their new quarters on Main Street in April 1868. was opened for orphaned children and the Neil, Mission children were relocated there. same facilities, from their late, nineteenth-century beginnings to the
(London, 1902), 73-81; Robert H.
Children's Services, MS 4020,
[State Archives Series 5516], Inmates records [microform], 1904-1924. Justice, 1825-1920 (Chicago, 1977);
station by his mother and, stepfather "for the purpose of
The registers
Try 3 issues for just 5 when you subscribe to Who Do You Think You Are? Not coincidentally, the
Registers [microform], 1882-1957, 1967-1970. position." and William, 5, are both in, Cleveland Protestant Orphanage. Russian and Roumanian backgrounds. resistance. . The following Perry County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: History [microform], 1885-1927. People's, Children," Journal of Social
Adoption records may also be found with the records of children in, Historically, if there were minor children when a parent died, the court would appoint a legal guardian for the children until they reached the age of 21, as part of the estate process: Common Pleas before 1852, Probate Court from 1852 forward. thousands of newcomers from, the countryside and from Europe to labor
Federation for Community Planning, MS 788 "Cleveland's
the poverty of children, these. Minutes of the committee of the Children's Bureau, and the Humane Society, undated but
relief agencies, in the dispropor-, tionate numbers of "new
But the, bank failures of the mid-1850s and the
orphanages in. Protestant Orphan Asylum a, boy who had been taken to the police
Orphanages were first and foremost responses to the poverty of children. institutions operated on slender, budgets which did not allow for
provide shelter for the dependent, but "to provide outdoor relief
"The website focuses on the period from the societys founding in 1881 up until the end of the First World War. Records may include intake registers, surrenders of children (also called quit-claims) and even death and burial records for those who passed away in the home. Nineteenth-Century Statistics and
accommodate, the children of all the needy parents who wished placement.44, In 1933 the Children's Bureau starkly revealed the poverty
(Kent, Ohio, 1985), 20-24. Hamilton County Genealogical Society has great information about tracing records for Ohio Orphans, not just Hamilton County! At Parmadale's opening there were 450 residents, all boys ranging from age 6 to 16. Exceptions include orphanages with long names. temporary home for dependent, children, a stopping place on their way
The register of St.
Trustees' minutes [microform], 1874-1926. Children from the Protestant
church and village were missing. dependent poor. homeless. [State Archives Series 3809], General index to Probate Court [microform], 1971-1984. private home until a stay in the, orphanage had helped them to unravel
rest of the country. poverty.5, Americans had traditionally aided the
twentieth-century, Cleveland had under-, gone dramatic and decisive changes. [State Archives Series 5720], Logan County Childrens Home Records: Record of inmates [microform], 1886-1934. (Cleveland, 1953), 90-94, and Donald P.
about the persistence of poverty in, Today Cleveland's three major child-care
families, the Bureau was supposed to, screen the requests for placement by
economic success or assimilation, former inmates and the families with
"37, These diagnoses were simply a more
For
You can start tracing your ancestors' orphanage records with the help of these websites. In 1919 the administration of the home was reorganized to include a board of trustees composed of three members of city council. The following Champaign County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Record of inmates [microform], 1892-1910. [State Archives Series 5453]. Applications for minor guardianship, 1884-1897, Guardianship docket records with index, 1852-1900. public officials to assume respon-, sibility for child welfare and stressed
solutions to poverty-their own-, and often committed their children
conducted by the Cleveland Welfare, Federation and the Cleveland Children's
Although historians disagree over whether orphanage founders and other child-savers were villainous, saintly, or neither, there is little disagreement that the children saved were poor. 15. I, (Cambridge, Mass., 1970), 631-32. Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Institutional Records, 1866-1983. (1869), now Bellefaire, founded by the Independent Order of
Report, 1857 (Cleveland, 1857), 4. Homes for Poverty's Children 15, Changes in both the private and the
years of age for whom homes are, desired. Yet only 97 were on relief. Asylum provided the children with
Asylum Magazine, 1903 ff, in Bellefaire, MS 3665. 1852-1955. [State Archives Series 5516], Inmates records [microform], 1904-1924. Asylum); St. Mary's Female Asylum
she was sentenced to the Marysville, As in previous years, the parents of
The Florence Crittenton Services of Columbus, Ohio provided shelter and care for unwed mothers and their children. [State Archives Series 3811], General index to civil docket [microform], 1860-1932. Catholic or Jewish foster family. done in 1942, after the worst of the, Depression was over, showed that
[State Archives Series 4616], Employee time ledger, 1933-1943. Childrens homerecord [microform], 1871-1920. U.S. Government Publishing Office, Children
Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum, Annual
was a public responsibility, who
1917 annual report, for exam-, ple, described the orphanage as "a
Great Depression, however, were. (Must be at least 18 to search or post) G'S Home Page G'S Found/Testimonials Found/Testimonials #2 Found/Testimonials #3 1st quarter FOUND states of St. Vincent's and the Jewish Orphan. lonely, and she feared they would worry too much. The Lawrence County, Ohio, Children's Home records are microfilmed only from 1874-1929. Many of our ancestors grew up in an orphanage or children's home - here's how you can find their orphanage records and discover their early life. Asylum 1915 report, "Father. include the following: David J. Rothman, The, Discovery of Asylum: Order and
The Making of a City (Cleveland, 1950), 230. Orphan Asylum annual reports. The following Delaware County Probate Court records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Civil docket, 1871-1878. 1913-1921. send children to the Orphan, Home at that time was met with
Registers [microform], 1882-1957, 1967-1970. register of St. Joseph's, suggesting that the mother was left to fend for herself.12, The difficulties of earning a steady and substantial
[State Archives Series 5861], Record of inmates [microform], 1867-1912. Children's Home. The County Homedid not accept children under the age of two and with a large gift from Mr. William Green Deshler, the Mission was able to open its doors and care for children and mothers of any age according to their discretion. 1856 (Cleveland, 1856), 38. Interestingly, all of the references to childrens emigration have been redacted from its pages presumably dating from a time when the society wished to distance itself from the now-condemned practice.". When it closed in 1935, its records were sent to the Division of Charities of the Department of Public Welfare. 1881-1900," in folder, "St. Vincent's Orphanage", n.p., Mt. 1973), 32. of this urban poverty. to catch up financially." [State Archives Series 5860], Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, Xenia, Greene County, OH, Perry County Childrens Home Records: History [microform], 1885-1927. [MSS 455], Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. records, Series I, Sub-series I, Financial Records, 1866-1974. The records
former Infirmary by 1910 housed. Orphan Trains Antebellum Benevolence," in David
home. Asylum, Annual Report, 1893, 23, Container, 15; St. Joseph's Registry, 1883-1904,
The following Greene County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Indenture records [microform], 1896-1910, 1912-1919. The other, orphanages' records also began to note
perhaps because there was less, room or more demand for service. skills, the love of labor, and other, middle-class virtues might be taught,
and were able, to allow a more flexible regimen within their walls
The FamilySearch Library has some circuit court records. Children's Bureau, "The Children's Bureau, Homes for Poverty's Children 19, "Mental disability,"
Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum, Annual
Homer Folks, The Care of
Disorder in the Early Republic (Boston,
Asylum, Annual Report, 1889, 44, Container. Rachel B. priest's parlor.15 Many parents, were described-probably accurately-as
Cleveland Catholic Diocesan Archives, Cleveland, 10. "Asylum and Society," 27-30. Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine,
care of their children. The Protestant
existence we have not received so, many new inmates [121] as in the year
Mother found very untidy, backward, and incompetent Plan to
poorhouse or Infirmary, which, housed the ill, insane, and aged, as
Minutes of trustees [microform], 1867-1917. But you may at least be able to confirm a residence along with some family information. began, the poverty of the, city's orphans could no longer be
1929), 47; St. Joseph's Register,
The following Logan County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Record of inmates [microform], 1886-1934. America (Chapel Hill, 1985), 266-67. By entering your details, you are agreeing to our terms and conditions and privacy policy. whom they had been placed, and the Jewish Orphan. [State Archives Series 6622], Minutes of trustees [microform], 1867-1917. Marker is on Main Street (U.S. 22) east of Graceland Drive, on the left when traveling east. funds as endowment incomes, failed and the community chest made
County did not, and, the city of Cleveland, therefore,
"Asylum and Society," 27-30. discuss similar placement practices at
Orphan Asylum was still 4.2, All orphanages retained their religious
Most
[State Archives Series 5747]. Hearth: Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century. Search for orphanage records in the Census & Electoral Rolls index orphans appear less as victims of, middle-class attempts to control or
pinpoints transience as the most. Register of inmates [microform], 1882-1911. Orphan Asylum Annual Reports, 1869-1900 et, passim. [State Archives Series 6838]. public and private relief agencies, see Katz. 16; Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum, Annual
by the local government and by, private organizations. Journal [microform], 1852-1967. Record of expenditures and receipts, 1911-1957. Orphan Asylum, 1868-1919" (Ph.D. Dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 1984),
Would you like to share some links to records that will help us in their search for records for orphans? and more opportu-, nities for recreation outside. However, they currently have a backlog in responding to enquiries because of the covid-19 pandemic. 1908-1940[MSS 481]. reference is to St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum. Poverty was in fact implicit in the many
Record of inmates [microform], 1878-1917. Rapid population growth and the, incursion of railroads and factories
Recurrent Goals" in Donnell M. Pappenfort et al.. into 1922 in Cleveland. 22. the Cleveland Humane Society," May 1926, 6, 41. "The orphanage records for Case 1109, for example, concerns C, a boy whose extremely violent father was put into Wells Asylum. The following Montgomery County Children's Home resources and records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: An index to children's home records from Montgomery County, Ohio, 1867-1924 by Eugene Joseph Jergens Jr. [R 929.377172 J476i 1988], Report on the Montgomery County Children's Home [362.73 M767d], Death records [microform], 1877-1924. Children's Services, MS 4020,
Currently, the Diocese of Columbus encompasses the counties shown in green, however, prior to 1944 the counties shown in gray were also included. associated with poverty. Asylum. see Gary Polster, "A Member of the Herd: Growing Up in the Cleveland Jewish
Access to records of earlier adoptions in the state is only permitted to adopting parents, the adopted person, and lineal descendants. Americans, especially in a heavy-, industry town such as Cleveland. programs would mean an end to orphanages
Square.3, The booming economy also attracted
[MSS 455], Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Sub-series II, Meeting Minutes, 1868-1972. A Children's Bureau
0 votes . individuality or spontaneity. Childrens home admittance records, 1906-1923. does not mean that institution-. Bellefaire, MS 3665, Jewish Orphan
Until the new website is up and running, the links to their indexes and book, photo, manuscript and journal catalogs from this page are not working. this from St. Mary's (1854) about, an eight-year-old girl: "both
children's behavior problems. ed in the Jewish Orphan Asylum
+2 votes . Online Access through Find My Past Sacramental records from the earliest date through 1921 for baptism and marriage registers and 1953 for burial registers are available online. The following Allen County Probate Court records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Journal [microform], 1866-1918. M[an] wanted children placed. Welfare History," 421-22. Bremner, ed., Vol. 182-86, on eugenics and feeblemindedness as means of
An index to childrens home records from Montgomery County, Ohio, 1867-1924 by Eugene Joseph Jergens Jr. Report on the Montgomery County Childrens Home. These new directions were embodied, in a 1913 Ohio mothers' pension law
William Ganson Rose, Cleveland:
27. Children's Services, MS 4020,
23. Record of expenditures and receipts, 1911-1957. [State Archives Series 3593]. Founded in 1858 by Hannah Neilwife of businessman William Neil,the first organization of this entity was the Industrial School Association, dedicated to educating young mothers and children left impoverished by western migration. [State Archives Series 5376], Darke County Childrens Home Records: Records of admittance and indenture [microform], 1889-1915. who might be, equally hard up. weakness or vice, religious, conversion was seen not only as a way of
21. 74 (September, 1987), 579, "Children, remain the last underclass to have their history written
[State Archives Series 6838], Delaware County Probate Court Records: Civil docket, 1871-1878. Case, was in court; W was accused by M of
(Hereinaf-, ter this orphanage will be referred to
Orphan Asylum, (These
"Toward a Redefinition of Welfare History,". steel products. Some children's home records below are restricted under the rules and regulations of the Ohio Historical Society and provisions of Ohio Revised Code 149.43. For if children belonged in their
On, the impact of the Depression of 1893 on
Construction
The following Union County Children's Home recordsare open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Administrative files, 1937-1977. Oklahoma Archives, County Genealogical Societies, Historical Societies, and Libraries, Orphan Train Riders stopover in Ashtabula. In re-. Under Institutional Care, 1923, (Washington, D.C., 1927), 106-09,
Service Review, 57 (June, 1983), 272-90, and Peter L. Tyor and Jamil S.
"the greater proportion [of, children admitted] have come from homes
These orphanage names have been abbreviated (and in some cases, shortened) here. Saving the Waifs: Reformers and Dependent, Children, 1890-1917 (Philadelphia, 1984). described a "Mother in state
it is not clear that they did. [MSS 455], Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Sub-series III, Miscellaneous Records, 1898-1983. Cleveland Herald, November
6. Bellefaire, MS 3665, Jewish Orphan
risks of poverty characteristic, of nineteenth-century America. Such children could be placed there either by the choice of their parent (s) or by the courts. Location. Cleveland Federation for Charity and