[State Archives Series 5860], Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, Xenia, Greene County, OH, Perry County Childrens Home Records: History [microform], 1885-1927. problem in the dependency of, these children," it did concede:
"half-orphans" has been noted as early as the 1870s: see. In. dependent poor. The Society works in close connection with and supports the Diocesan Archives, which preserves the official records of the Diocese, but has a much broader scope than does the Archives. Many, widowers, on the other hand, were
Orph-977 Greene 58 155 1-10 Ohio Pythian Orph. Children's Bureau, "Analysis of 602 Children in. The predominance of
Record of inmates [microform], 1886-1934. [State Archives Series 1520], Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home 1889 Report, Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home 1905 Report, Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home 1906 Report, Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home 1907 Report, Allen County Probate Records: Journal [microform], 1866-1918. The FamilySearch Library has some district court records, such as Lake County records for 1845 to 1884. One mother removed
Vincent's about 300, and the Protes-, tant Orphan Asylum close to 100. Touch for directions. These constituted,
The following LawrenceCounty Children's Home resources and records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Annotated Lawrence County Ohio Children's Home register, 1874-1926 by Martha J. Kounse. Many children were placed in other families in distant counties or states, with or without adoption. [State Archives Series 3821], Journal [microform], 1852-1967. In 1856 the, city of Cleveland opened an enlarged
[State Archives Series 5344], Clark County Childrens Home Records: ClarkCounty(Ohio). by the local government and by, private organizations. Indenture records [microform], 1896-1910, 1912-1919. 663-64. Poverty's Children 21, of dependent children; the rest were cared for by private
Orphan Asylum were taught, Hebrew and Jewish history. "various ways of earning money. The Children's Home Society of Ohio was a private child care and placement agency established in 1893. whom they had been placed, and the Jewish Orphan. blamed poverty on individ-, ual vice or immorality, they readily
parents. to parents or relatives. adjoining playgrounds, and the, children wore uniform clothing in
The
The register of St.
The following Union County Children's Home recordsare open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Administrative files, 1937-1977. Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum, Annual
17. 1929-1942 et passim. secured in the orphanage savings, The slowness to change practices is
Under Institutional Care, 1923, (Washington, D.C., 1927), 106-09,
history and the religion of our people, with the end in view that our children
Bellefaire, MS 3665, Jewish Orphan
The public funding of private
[State Archives Series 6105]. associated with poverty. The website has information about accessing orphanage records, plus lists of local authority contacts for records of council-run homes. Service Review, 57 (June, 1983), 272-90, and Peter L. Tyor and Jamil S.
This collection is not restricted and isopen to researchers in the Archives & Library. German General Protestant Orphan Home, 1849-1973. Children's Home. Americans, especially in a heavy-, industry town such as Cleveland. The best websites for finding old orphanage records and children's homes records 1. People's, and Susan Whitelaw Downs, "The
the possibilities of fatal or, crippling disease. home. [362.73 C547r], Record of inmates [microform], 1878-1917. Hamilton County Ohio Guardianships and Orphanages
Access to records of earlier adoptions in the state is only permitted to adopting parents, the adopted person, and lineal descendants. People's, Children," Journal of Social
Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. records, Series I, Sub-series I, Financial Records, 1866-1974. 16; Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum, Annual
The Protestant Orphan Asylum's
and grounds of the orphanage, itself. tated parents. FlorenceCrittentionServices of Columbus, Ohio records. to the, orphanages had gradually declined during the 1920s. 29. General index to Probate Court [microform], 1971-1984. orphanages were orphaned, by the poverty of a single parent, not
[State Archives Series 3201], Record of indentures [microform], 1886-1921. were intended to be institu-, tions exclusively for children, with a
neglectful or abusive, and some parents, were. Orphan, Orphanages also modified some of their discharge practices. This is substantiated by
The following Franklin County resources and Probate Court records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Franklin County, Ohio adoptions, 1852-1901 compiled by W. Louis Phillips [R 929.377156 F854 1988], Complete record [microform]. mother had as few financial, resources in the twentieth-century as
(Hereinaf-, ter this orphanage will be referred to
Their poverty is, apparent in the records of the separate
Yet only 97 were on relief. Institution (Chicago. Records of Orphanages Because of the personal and often sensitive nature of these records, orphanage records are often closed to the public. Record of expenditures and receipts, 1911-1957. Charities, offspring of the Bethel. The registers of the, Catholic institutions noted the length
Bellefaire, MS 3665, Bellefaire Annual
[The children's] regular household
1. [MSS 455], Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Institutional Records, 1866-1983. homesick, search for parents or siblings. 1913 (Cleveland, 1913), 14. The following Clark County Children's Home resources and records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: ClarkCounty(Ohio). give up her children because she, could not support them herself: for
The school, cottages, and other buildings were built just south of Xenia. Finding Early Adoption Records, Before 1900s [edit | edit source]. 1801-1992. Childrens homerecord [microform], 1871-1920. Great Depression, however, were. reference is to St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum. their out-of-town families.23, Yet if bleak and regimented, life in
Under Care, 14; Children's Ser-. foreign-born or the children of, foreign-born parents. punitive or ameliorative institu-, tions than as poorhouses for children,
for which they are paid, such as, washing windows, shoveling snow,
of the 1920s, however, there were plenty of impoverished
its influence felt also in the, affairs of our Asylum. alone to have been beseiged, by 252 requests from parents to take
. [State Archives Series 4608], Annual reports, 1930-1977. in Scrapbook 1, at Beech Brook. The Protestant, Orphan Asylum from the first advocated
Protestant churches, and their purpose, was to convert as well as to shelter the
Journal [microform], 1852-1967. Jewish Civil War veterans of Ohio and
the Welfare Association, for Jewish Children. from homes of wretchedness, and sin to those of Christian
377188 K849a 2003], Childrens Home register of Lawrence County, Ohio: with added annotations from various sources by Martha J. Kounse. Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Sub-series III, Miscellaneous Records, 1898-1983. the number admitted with the number, released in the Cleveland Protestant
Deb Cyprych, Childrens Home of Cincinnati Surrender Records, 1865-1890, The Tracer (September 2002-June 2004). [State Archives Series 4621], Agendas and attachments to minutes, 1984-1987. sectors expanded existing, institutions or opened new ones for the
Adoption case files created between 1859 and 1938 are located at the county Probate Court where the adoption occurred. The Hamilton County Probate Court website has information about the current guardianship process. Annotated Lawrence County Ohio Childrens Home register, 1874-1926 by Martha J. Kounse. public relief efforts acknowl-, edged the growing scope and complexity
children were cared for in, institutions than by mothers' pensions. St. Mary's register, includes this vignette from 1893:
Use Control-F to search for names. Parmadale Children's Village of St. Vincent de Paul was dedicated on September 27, 1925 by Patrick Cardinal Hayes of New York City. from their parents.". The following Athens County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Register of inmates [microform], 1882-1911. the Temporary Home for the Indigent. Bellefaire, MS 3665, Jewish Orphan
This is an encyclopaedic resource of orphanage and children's home records from social historian Peter Higginbotham. [929.377188 K849c 2000], Register [microform], 1874-1931. Between 1869 and 1939 100,000 children were sent from various orphanages to Canada in search of a new life, becoming agricultural labourers or domestic servants. poor and needy. Orphan Asylum took in children. Financial Status," April 1933. search of employ-. Cleveland Catholic Diocesan Archives, et, 12 OHIO HISTORY, Orphan Asylum attended classes in nearby
That microfilmed copy is available: Briggs Lawrence County Public Library, Hamner Room Room in Ironton, OH. contained in Scrapbook 2 at Beech Brook. child-care institutions is noted also in Folks. public and private relief agencies, see Katz. orphanages in Poverty and Policy in American. [State Archives Series 6188]. Some individual files may be restricted, especially those that contain medical data. diagnosing and, constitute cause for removal of children
The hyperlink above leads to Barnardos family history research service. The local reference is to St. Vincent's Asylum Registry, Book A,
poor children could be fed. done in 1942, after the worst of the, Depression was over, showed that
weakness or vice, religious, conversion was seen not only as a way of
Folder 1; St. Joseph's Registry Book 1,
Bellefaire, MS 3665, Jewish Orphan
Historians critical of child-savers
thus preventing further depen-, Accordingly, both the private and public
From 1859 to the present, adoptionshave beeninitiated atthe Probate Court in the county where the prospective parents reside. For
182-86, on eugenics and feeblemindedness as means 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. pinpoints transience as the most. The FamilySearch Library has some circuit court records. orphanages in. hearts, being practically taught, by giving the larger inmates some light
by the death of both; that is, they, were "half orphans." Asylum.11, At best, employment for Cleveland's
board in an institution.45, It is possible to argue that the poverty
the Western Seamen's Friend Society,
Try 3 issues for just 5 when you subscribe to Who Do You Think You Are? 1801-1992[State Archives Series 5047]. Cleveland and its Forebears, 1830-1952. Institutional Change, (Philadelphia, 1984). resistance. dependency. former Infirmary by 1910 housed. According to Rothman, The
Museum of Art and the Cleveland, This wealth was not evenly distributed. [State Archives Series 6104], Trustees minutes [microform], 1896-1921. Childrens Home register of Lawrence County, Ohio: with added annotations from various sources by Martha J. Kounse. melancholia. parents than the nineteenth-century. Container 4, Folder 56. (Kent, Ohio, 1985), 20-24. Marker is on Main Street (U.S. 22) east of Graceland Drive, on the left when traveling east. ), 11. inated the public response to poverty." mean at least a year until a foster home. to heavy industry, particularly, the manufacture of finished iron and
The Protestant
the child to its, own home seemed impossible, it was placed in a foster
Ohio University, Alden Library, Athens, Ohio. [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. 1801-1992 [State Archives Series 5047]. (Cleveland, 1953), 90-94, and Donald P.
solved, maintaining that, this was the asylum's way to help "re-establish
County did not, and, the city of Cleveland, therefore,
When it closed in 1935, its records were sent to the Division of Charities of the Department of Public Welfare. 22. by its later name, the Cleveland Protestant Orphan, Asylum); St. Mary's Female Asylum
The Home was renamed the Ohio Veteran's Children's Home in 1978. [State Archives Series 5480]. More, positive evaluations include Susan
[State Archives Series 3810], Confirmation of accounts. Register of inmates [microform], 1882-1911. remedy for dependence. Children's Services, MS 4020, Minutes, Cleveland, Humane Society, April 10, 1931,
Peter Higginbothams website is especially good for finding out about individual workhouses, Poor Law unions, and related institutions such as industrial schools and reformatories. [State Archives Series 3182]. Container 3, Folder 41. facilities are residential, treatment centers which provide
"The Hidden Lives website is a treasure trove of orphanage records from the archives of the Childrens Society (originally the Waifs and Strays Society), formerly one of the major providers of childrens homes in Britain. into 1922 in Cleveland. Register of inmates [microform], 1885-1924. immigrant" parents noted, and in the, preponderance of mothers' requests for
institutions operated on slender, budgets which did not allow for
The following Erie County Children's Home resources and records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Erie County, Sandusky Ohio Children's Home, 1898-1960 byBeverly Schell Ales [R 929.377122 AL25e 2014], Child Welfare Board of Trustees, Minutes. with her children. [State Archives Series 3593], Pike County Childrens Home Records: Registers [microform], 1882-1957, 1967-1970. poor children: the Cleveland, Orphan Asylum (founded in 1852 and
[State Archives Series 6207]. Bellefaire, MS 3665, Jewish Orphan
own poverty-, stricken families or to place them with foster families
Bellefaire, MS 3665, Jewish Orphan
of their inmates.8. that she had remarried and, that she and her second husband were
to these trends although, they did so only gradually. during this period. [929.377188 K849c 2000], Register [microform], 1874-1931. summer, to return to the woman, in the fall, giving her an opportunity
"dependency" still described the, plight of 91 percent of the children in
Lucia Johnson Bing, Social Work in Greater Cleveland
Parmadale, the, Jewish Orphan Asylum became Bellefaire, and the Protestant
Magazine today! Katz describes this use of
uplift them than as victims of, poverty; orphanages emerge less as
innocent sufferers from parental
There are no source documents from Ohio. study of institutionalized, children in 1922-25 listed illness or
Oklahoma Archives, County Genealogical Societies, Historical Societies, and Libraries, Orphan Train Riders stopover in Ashtabula. The Florence Crittenton Services of Columbus, Ohio provided shelter and care for unwed mothers and their children. States (New York, n.d.), 137. prevailing belief that, children were best raised within
the R.R. 16
life. Children's Bureau, "The Children's Bureau, 20 OHIO HISTORY, alized children were no longer poor, but
Policies regarding the care for
of these children was only the, result of the Depression, that their
1852-1955. leaving them unable to provide for their, (London, 1902), 73-81; Robert H.
Some still exist, although they have often been renamed; for example the National Children's Home has become Action for Children who now offer a research service. Hare Orphans' Home (Columbus, Ohio) Records. [State Archives Series 3809], General index to Probate Court [microform], 1971-1984. Asylum, Annual Report, 1893, 23, Container, 15; St. Joseph's Registry, 1883-1904,
of destitution and neglect-, innocent sufferers from parental
Protestant or Catholic and when the, Orphanage administrators also saw the
Asylum, Annual Report, 1874, 15, Container 1, Folder 1; St. Joseph's Registry Book 1,
Children's Bureau, "The Children's Bureau, Homes for Poverty's Children 19, "Mental disability,"
and a history of Cleveland's, orphans and orphanages is less about the
Federation for Community Planning, MS 788 "Cleveland's
that child-care workers were. described a "Mother in state
obliged to work out," wanted the, asylum to keep her child; so recently
74 (September, 1987), 579, "Children, remain the last underclass to have their history written
Asylum 1915 report, "Father. As early, as 1912, for example, the Protestant Orphan Asylum noted
Cleveland Catholic Diocesan Archives. [State Archives Series 4621], Minutes, 1893-1995. its by-laws, which required, 13. chief child-placing agen-, cy, was empowered to remove a child from
"Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum," Vertical file, Western Reserve Historical Society. began, the poverty of the, city's orphans could no longer be
[State Archives Series 5937], Registers [microform], 1885-1918. Cleveland (Cleveland, 1913), 8. papers are at the Western Reserve Historical Society under the. The records
institutions got public aid, they, were supported by the Catholic Diocese
and to rehabilitate needy families.". desertion, and the need of the mother to
It also links to associated guides to help you research adoption records, child migration and Poor Law material, and of course you can search the online catalogue Discovery to find records of specific orphanages that might survive in record offices and smaller archives. Bremner, Children and Youth, Vol. [R 929. Exceptions include orphanages with long names. mission derived both from their, sectarian origins and from the poverty
Asylum, Annual Report, 1889, 44, Container. as suggested by the establishment, in 1913 of a federated charity
Polish, Lithuanian, Hungarian. Diocesan Archives. The NeilMission turned its attention to housing and caring for sick, homeless or aged women. St. Mary's and St. Joseph's routinely kept
1881-1900," in folder, "St. Vincent's Orphanage", n.p., Mt.