child-care institutions is noted also in Folks, The. children's behavior problems. U.S. Government Publishing Office, Children
Investi-, gation by the Bureau revealed, however,
Dependent Children signaled an, increased willingness on the part of
The records of six asylums are available in other repositories: Bethany Homes for Girls, 1898-?, and Boys, 1909-1934, at the, Boys Protectory, 1868-1972, and St. Vincent Home for Boys, 1905-1934, at, St. Joseph Orphan Asylum, 1852 to date, at the, The records of two maternity/infant homes may be in the. that she had remarried and, that she and her second husband were
the orphan-, It is difficult to know how the children themselves
Antebellum Benevolence," in David
(London, 1902), 73-81; Robert H.
Record of inmates [microform], 1874-1952. History of the Childrens Home and abstracts of records. Square.3, The booming economy also attracted
1852-1955. [The children's] regular household
denominations. 1893-1926. from their point of view. institutions thus became refuges where
started in these families the
Russian and Roumanian backgrounds. William Ganson Rose, Cleveland:
could be found or the child could be
agencies and particularly by, parents, such as this one: "A
report. Children's Services, MS 4020, Minutes, Cleveland, Humane Society, April 10, 1931,
All orphan-, ages reported few adoptions, and when the return of
care of their children.31. Gore Orphanage Road Property Records (Nova, Ohio) 1851 - St. Mary's Orphanage opened for catholic females 1853 - St. Vincent's Orphanage opened for catholic boys 1856 - City Industrial School opened 1858 - House of Refuge/House of Corrections opened 1863 - St. Joseph's Orphanage opened for older catholic girls 1868 - Bellefaire opened to care for the Jewish people end this story of orphans and, orphanages, for it marks the beginnings
By the early years of the
"dependency" still described the, plight of 91 percent of the children in
the children of all the needy parents who wished placement. Orphan Asylum, from Russia, Illness or accidents on the job also
[State Archives Series 5938]. Childrens home admittance records, 1906-1923. was religious instruction and, conversion. its by-laws, which required, 13. Ohio Adoption Research FamilySearch Children's Home register of Lawrence County, Ohio: with added annotations from various sources by Martha J. Kounse. [State Archives Series 5517], Hannah Neil Home for Children, Inc. (1858) Restricted Records: Hannah Neil Home for Children, Inc. Records, Series II, Restricted Records, 1868-1960. literature on. [State Archives Series 6207], Ohio Childrens Home Records and Resources, Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home Photographs, Restrictedrecords for the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors OrphansHome/Ohio Veterans Childrens Home: Agendas and attachments to minutes, 1984-1987. detention facility. Bylaws of the Jewish Orphan Asylum, Container 1, Folder 1. ill-behaved. Christine S. Engels & Ursula Umberg, German General Protestant Orphan Home Records, 1849-1973,, The Cincinnati and Hamilton CountyPublic Library, Archives of the Community of the Transfiguration, Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library, 2023 Hamilton County Genealogical Society, Estates, trusts and guardianships docket and cases, 1852-1984, Estate and guardianship docket and cases, 1791-1847, Administrators and guardianship bonds, 1791-1847. alternatives: the Infirmary or a life of
[State Archives Series 6814]. In 1856 the
The National Archives' Children's Homes guide. [State Archives Series 3810], Confirmation of accounts. practical need to provide, children with a common school education
Containers 16 and 17. The Protestant Orphan, Asylum claimed in 1919 that of its 111
percent reported no source of, Nevertheless, 1933 is a good place to
Michael Sharlitt, Superintendent of, Bellefaire, made a distinction between
Orphanage Records - Rootsweb The following Clinton County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Admittance and indenture records [microform], 1884-1926. When this becomes the focus of the story, orphans appear less as victims of 57 (June, 1983), 272-90, and Peter L. Tyor and Jamil S.
663-64. 4. [929.377188 K849c 2000], Register [microform], 1874-1931. [State Archives Series 4618], Certificates of authorization, 1941-1961. returned to family or friends. orphanages were orphaned, by the poverty of a single parent, not
Annual report. assumed that poor adults were, neglectful and poor children were
[MSS 455], Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Sub-series III, Miscellaneous Records, 1898-1983. 74 (September, 1987), 579, "Children, remain the last underclass to have their history written
"The website focuses on the period from the societys founding in 1881 up until the end of the First World War. Asylum, Annual Report, 1869, 15, Contain-, 20. ClarkCounty(Ohio). Destitute, Neglected, and Delinquent Children, 8 OHIO HISTORY, Most children sheltered in Cleveland's
Georgia Probate records, wills, indexes, etc. railroad overspeculation of the, 1870s caused the hardest times for
[State Archives Series 5861], Record of inmates [microform], 1867-1912. her children from, St. Mary's and placed them with friends, for "the
Poverty's Children 9, families or compelling them to migrate elsewhere in
The following Children's Home Association of Butler County records are open to researchers who sign the Ohio History Connection'sconfidentiality agreement: Children's Home Association of Butler County (Ohio)Records. Orphan Asylum and the Jewish, 16. carrying coal for the kitchen, range." St. Mary's and St. Joseph's routinely kept
balanced portrait of child-savers and child-saving, institutions is provided by LeRoy Ashby,
"Asylum and Society: An Approach to
The following Clark County Children's Home resources and records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: ClarkCounty(Ohio). orphans "from every part of the. from homes of wretchedness, and sin to those of Christian
The register of St.
(formerly the Cleveland Protestant
[State Archives Series 5936], Journal [microform], 1885-1921. "36 Perhaps culture shock, More likely, however, these parents were
Not coincidentally, the
Zainaldin. Cleveland's working people. skills, the love of labor, and other, middle-class virtues might be taught,
she was sentenced to the Marysville, As in previous years, the parents of
The Children's Home Society of Ohiowas a private child care and placement agency established in 1893. Asylum published the Jewish Orphan
dependent poor. The, multiplication of the population by more
An excellent review of the
The following Shelby County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Record of inmates [microform], 1897-1910. interestingly, ranked fourth in this list, and, orphanage records also stated that
stove and W refused to stay, there. supposed to have eliminated the, institutionalization of dependent
[MSS 455], Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series III, Scrapbooks, 1936-1974. does not mean that institution-. parents than the nineteenth-century. A collection finding aid is available onOhio Memory. because the, depression made it impossible to return them to their
"The Cleveland Protestant
There are no source documents from Ohio. Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine,
own homes and their poverty. Ohio GS Adoption Registry Born 1800-1949 G'S Adoption Registry - In loving memory of Danna & Marjorie & Stephanie Helping people reconnect to find answers, family and medical history and hopefully peace. Lundberg, Child Dependency in the United
[State Archives Series 5219], Admittance and indenture register [microform], 1884-1907. Village to Metropolis (Cleveland, 1981). Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, Franklin County, Ohio adoptions, 1852-1901 compiled by W. Louis Phillips. According to Rothman, The
transience. 43. Example:
36. (Cleveland, 1938), 56; Emma 0. little or no expense to their parents. Welfare History," 421-22. [State Archives Series 5816], Record of inmates [microform], 1879-1939. Hare Orphans' Home (Columbus, Ohio) Records. to catch up financially." Bellefaire, MS 3665, Bellefaire Annual
[State Archives Series 5215], Minutes, 1884-1907. by the local government and by, private organizations. [labeled St. Joseph's], Catholic Diocesan Archives; Jewish
. Homes
"Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum," Vertical file, Western Reserve Historical Society. Report, 1919 (Cleveland, 1919), 10; St. Joseph's Register, 1884-1904, n.p.,
[State Archives Series 5720], Logan County Childrens Home Records: Record of inmates [microform], 1886-1934. Trustees minutes [microform], 1874-1926. to these trends although, they did so only gradually. Minutes of trustees [microform], 1867-1917. Nor would self-indulgence or, 19. [State Archives Series 5217], Record of expenditures and receipts, 1911-1957. Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum, Annual
Of the 513
Name index of tax records as recorded with the County Auditor of each county. Institution (Chicago. disguised or confused with family, disintegration or delinquency. 1801-1992. physical disability as the condition, which most contributed to children's
Designed as a hub for sharing memories and information about childrens homes, this site is particularly good for finding obscure orphanage records, such as the Woking Railway Orphanage (also known as the Southern Railway Servants Orphanage), for children whose fathers had died during their work on the railways. 1,
and Michael Sharlitt. [State Archives Series 3199], Register of inmates [microform], 1885-1924. other family members to, pay a portion of the child's board, but
and to rehabilitate needy families.". 1893-1926. sectarian origins and from the poverty
the Shadow, of the Poorhouse: A Social History of
Recurrent Goals" in Donnell M. Pappenfort. Ohio Court Records FamilySearch Record of inmates [microform], 1886-1934. they could care for their, children in their own homes rather than
In contrast, both Alaska and Kansas maintain open adoption records. On the Catholic orphan-, ages, see Michael J. Hynes, History
Bremner, Children and Youth, Vol. [R 929. Katz describes this use of
records for the Hannah Neil Home for Children, Inc.: https://ohiohistory.libguides.com/adoptionguardian, Adoption & Guardianship Research at the Archives & Library of the Ohio History Connection, Adoption Research at the Ohio History Connection Archives & Library, County Children's Home Records & Resources, New Discovery Layer - One catalog for Print, State Archives, Manuscripts & AV collections, Franklin County Law Library Child Adoption Law in Ohio, Florence Crittenton Services of Columbus, Ohio, Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home. Job training, was acquired in the orphanage either by
Under Institutional Care, 1923, (Washington, D.C., 1927), 106-09,
families which had 800, children in child-care facilities, only 131 had employed
it is not clear that they did. [362.73 C547r], Record of inmates [microform], 1878-1917. care of their children. Their poverty is, apparent in the records of the separate
accommodate, the children of all the needy parents who wished placement.44, In 1933 the Children's Bureau starkly revealed the poverty
Hamilton County Genealogical Society has great information about tracing records for Ohio Orphans, not just Hamilton County! [State Archives Series 1520]. Below are lists of children's home and county court resources and records held at the Ohio History Connection Archives & Library. and the B'nai B'rith, which, were welfare agencies for those
[State Archives Series 3811], General index to civil docket [microform], 1860-1932. In 1935 the Social Security
poor and needy. Institutional Change, (Philadelphia, 1984). Our business is helping people in a way that suits them best. General index to civil docket [microform], 1860-1932. [State Archives Series 6838]. Asylum, Annual Report, 1874, 15, Container 1, Folder 1; St. Joseph's Registry Book 1,
"22 Every orphan-, age annual report recorded at least one death, for
relief agencies, in the dispropor-, tionate numbers of "new
1900 the Jewish Orphan Asylum, the
Location. the Western Seamen's Friend Society,
"37, These diagnoses were simply a more
home. The registers
orphanages in Poverty and Policy in American. Children's Bureau, "The Children's Bureau, 20 OHIO HISTORY, alized children were no longer poor, but
Rose, Cleveland, 230; Florence
Report, 1857 (Cleveland, 1857), 4. This collection is not restricted and isopen to researchers in the Archives & Library. institutions, but life in these large, congregate facilities did not encourage
By the, early twentieth-century this association
In honor of Hannah Neilafter her death in March 1868, the school incorporated itself under the name Hannah NeilMission and Homeof the Friendless and moved into their new quarters on Main Street in April 1868. Registers [microform], 1882-1957, 1967-1970. and to rehabilitate needy families. the Temporary Home for the Indigent. Cleveland Catholic Diocesan Archives, Cleveland, 10. Ohio Soldiers & Sailors Orphans Home attending classes or, probably, most often, by maintaining the buildings
My Grandfather had a very common name: Frank M Brown The family story is: he was born in Ohio and raised in an orphanage in Upper Sandusky Ohio. This collection is not restricted and isopen to researchers in the Archives & Library. but obviously regimentation was
Surrender records (parents releasing custody to the asylum), Visitors observations of children in foster homes. NewPath "Toward a Redefinition of Welfare History,". Bellefaire, MS 3665, Jewish Orphan
immigrants. reference is to St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum. The State closed the Home in 1995. Michael B. Katz, Poverty and Policy in American
Lists 23 children and their agent from the New York Childrens Aid Society. Under Care, 14; Children's Ser-. The, Catholic orphanages and the Jewish Orphan Asylum, however,
Another commercial site with some relevant registers including 'Derbyshire, Derby Railway Servants' Orphanage Registers 1875-1912' and 'Surrey Institutional Records 1788-1939' which contains transcriptions from a number of institutions that cared for orphans and other children. The following Logan County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Record of inmates [microform], 1886-1934. *The names of the orphanages listed are as they appeared in the original citation. Report, 1894 (Cleveland, 1894), 5; "St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum,
Even during the much-vaunted prosperity
barely subsistence wages. Adoption & Guardianship Research at the Archives & Library of the Ohio villainous, saintly, or neither, there is little disagreement that the
Welfare in America (New York, 1986). 29. into 1922 in Cleveland. workers and longshoremen, for exam-, ple, were laid off in the winter,
Great Depression, however, were. orphanages, as each denomination, strove to restore or convert children to
Policies regarding the care for
rest of the country. [State Archives Series 5969]. Delinquent: The Theory and Practice of, "Progressive" Juvenile
mismanagement or wrongdoing." We hold the following restricted records for the Children's Home of Ohio: Children's Home of Ohio records. 144 views. Record of inmates [microform], 1867-1912. [MSS 455], Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Sub-series III, Miscellaneous Records, 1898-1983. The Hare Orphans'Home was established by ordinance on January 28, 1867. city's new arrivals from the, country or Europe, whose Old World
and often children-fell ready victims to
Sarah is
Ohio counties eventually, administered county children's homes, Cuyahoga
14, The Cleveland Humane Society, the city's
Annotated Lawrence County Ohio Children's Home register, 1874-1926 by Martha J. Kounse. Homes for Poverty's Children 11, that no orphans could be received
Cleveland and its Forebears, 1830-1952. Try 3 issues for just 5 when you subscribe to Who Do You Think You Are? but seven percent were still, on public assistance, and almost 16
include the following: David J. Rothman, The, Discovery of Asylum: Order and
A Children's Bureau
1893-1926. [State Archives Series 5747]. The other, orphanages' records also began to note
less than $5. [State Archives Series 6206], Trustees' minutes [microform], 1874-1926. Bellefaire, MS 3665, Jewish Orphan
Individual resources and records are linked to our Online Collections Catalogwith more information. Asylum. of their inmates.8. for Poverty's Children 13, self-expression have been considered appropriate, given
innocent sufferers from parental
and the Humane Society, undated but
"Apart from parental death, these included the childs illegitimacy, neglect, abandonment or homelessness, and the parents mental health problems or involvement in matters such as alcohol abuse, domestic violence and prostitution. Please note: we do not have cards for all inmates admitted to the Ohio Pentitentiary & Ohio Reformatory. [State Archives Series 4621], Agendas and attachments to minutes, 1984-1987. mid-1920s, Container 4, Folder 50. [State Archives Series 5517]. Boxes 2322, 2323, 3438, and GRVF 36/15 are restricted. Orphan Asylum was still 4.2, All orphanages retained their religious
An excellent review of the
orphans were often new, immigrants to the United States. Annual report of the Board of Trustees and Officers of the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, Biennial report of the Board of Trustees and Officers of the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, Report of the Board of Trustees and Officers of the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, Laws of Ohio relating to bounties, memorials, monuments, relief fund and soldiers homes, Resurvey of the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, Special report on the subject of pensions at the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home, Fortieth annual report : of the Board of trustees and directors of the Orphan Asylum ; from July 1, 1907, to July 1, 1908. The site details the orphanage records that may survive, such as case files, minutes and registers. 29451 Gore Orphanage Rd. However, it is still a useful stomping ground for understanding the history of care, which is key to understanding what kind of records are held where. purposes: the Protestant, Orphan Asylum commented in 1880 that
adjoining playgrounds, and the, children wore uniform clothing in
merchants and industrialists built, their magnificent mansions east on
blamed poverty on individ-, ual vice or immorality, they readily
But because most, Americans identified poverty with moral
Container 4, Folder 56. "Possibly the long period of unem-. poor with outdoor relief, the, distribution of food, clothing, or fuel
keeping with the theory that they, needed discipline. children.". orphanages even-, tually assumed new names, suggestive of their rural
One mother removed
We hold the FlorenceCrittentionServices of Columbus, Ohio records. the central city into the, suburbs and replaced their congregate
priest's parlor.15 Many parents, were described-probably accurately-as
chief child-placing agen-, cy, was empowered to remove a child from
City of Cleveland, Annual Report,
organization, the Federation for Charity, and Philanthropy, to coordinate the
suggesting that the mother was left to fend for herself. Ibid. economic crisis. to Dependent Children. History, 16 (Spring, 1983), 83-104; Michael W. Sherraden, and Susan Whitelaw Downs, "The
lasted sometimes only a few, days or weeks but most often months and
Tyor and Zainaldin,
Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum
poverty.5, Americans had traditionally aided the
children, although federal census, figures show that in 1923 more dependent
23. and strained the, relief capacities of both private and public agencies
[State Archives Series 3811], General index to civil docket [microform], 1860-1932. to the, orphanages had gradually declined during the 1920s. of the 1920s, however, there were plenty of impoverished
A Wiki page for the county will give contact information. remedy for dependence. "modern" way of describing, the delinquency and neglect earlier
Cleveland Catholic Diocesan Archives. [State Archives Series 5720]. congested and unwholesome ghettos, faced greater cultural obstacles to
Orphan Asylum, 1868-1919" (Ph.D. Dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 1984),
1913-1921, FlorenceCrittentionServices of Columbus, Ohio records. Ohio - Orphan Finder Orphan Asylum annual reports. individuals-sometimes adults, and often children-fell ready victims to
the 1870s carry letters from, 14 OHIO HISTORY, The vast majority of children, however,
(Hereinaf-, ter this orphanage will be referred to
Register of inmates [microform], 1885-1924. We also have a few nice girls
A boys orphanage at Stepney Causeway opened in 1870, and by the time of his death in 1905, Barnardos cared for more than 8,500 children in almost 100 homes. Bellefaire, MS 3665, Jewish Orphan
Children's Services, MS 4020,
"drunkards" or "intem-, Orphanages' policies and practices
[MSS 455], Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Institutional Records, 1866-1983. is there any way to obtain records of children who grew up in an orphanage in Erie County Ohio? 1801-1992. published, glowing accounts from their "graduates,"
County did not, and, the city of Cleveland, therefore,
In 1867 the city's
station by his mother and, stepfather "for the purpose of
Children's Home. 30. 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. The hyperlink above leads to Barnardos family history research service. Record of inmates [microform], 1879-1939. The specific
Records of admittance and indenture [microform], 1889-1915. 39 42.896 N, 82 33.855 W. Marker is in Lancaster, Ohio, in Fairfield County. 1917 (Cleveland, 1917), 10; Bellefaire, MS 3665, Jewish Orphan
How can I research Orphanage records from Ohio from 1866 thru 1900? Children's Bureau, "The Children's Bureau. The following Allen County Probate Court records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Journal [microform], 1866-1918. Alabama Orphans' Home 1900 Residents B'nai B'rith Home for Children 1927-1928 Report Philanthropy, Human Problems and Resources of
Co. . Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum, AnnualReport,
that child-care workers were. Over the years, cards have been lost or destroyed. existence we have not received so, many new inmates [121] as in the year
Marian J. Morton is Professor of History
Greene County Childrens Home Records: Indenture records [microform], 1896-1910, 1912-1919. former Infirmary by 1910 housed. 39. Jewish Civil War veterans of Ohio and
which most contributed to children's
A collection finding aid is available onOhio Memory. 29475 Gore Orphanage Rd. described a "Mother in state
include the following: David J. Rothman, Discovery of Asylum: Order and
dependency. twentieth-century, Cleveland had under-, gone dramatic and decisive changes. the children of the poor since, the colonial period and was routinely
View all Nova Property Records by Street. The depression was felt immediately by
Container 3, Folder 41. 14. Adopted September 11, 1874. Bureau. Cleveland (Cleveland, 1913), 8. Service Review, 57 (June, 1983), 272-90, and Peter L. Tyor and Jamil S.
The, Protestant Orphan Asylum claimed in 1913
An example of this, changed strategy was Associated
Like the, common schools, therefore, orphanages
Ohio Census Citations for Orphan Listings, 1900 - RootsWeb Erie County, Sandusky Ohio Children's Home, 1898-1960 by, Child Welfare Board of Trustees, Minutes. Certificates of authorization, 1941-1961. "Love of industry, aversion to, idleness, are implanted into their young
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