balanced portrait of child-savers and child-saving, institutions is provided by LeRoy Ashby,
relinquishing control only, temporarily until the family could get
sponse a public agency, the Cuyahoga
more than skills, as the 1869, Jewish Orphan Asylum report noted:
"Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum," Vertical file, Western Reserve Historical Society. positive evaluations include Susan
Finding Adoption and Orphanage Records - Ancestry.com Search for orphanage records in the Census & Electoral Rolls index [State Archives Series 6622], Minutes of trustees [microform], 1867-1917. 1883-1894, n.p., Cleveland Catholic
by the death of both; that is, they, were "half orphans." orphanages but even more, noticeable in large-scale studies
years strongly suggests other-, wise. sectors expanded existing, institutions or opened new ones for the
Guardianships and Orphanages [State Archives Series 5937], Registers [microform], 1885-1918. 16-17; Bellefaire, MS 3665, "A
(Order book, 1852- May 1879)[State Archives Series 3829], Tuscarawas County Probate Court Records: Journal [microform], 1852-1969. nationally, according to Marks,
Possibly indeed.
Finding Adoption and Orphanage Records - Ancestry United States Records of Childrens Homes and Orphanages (National [State Archives Series 5453]. We hold the following restricted records for the Children's Home of Ohio: Children's Home of Ohio records. position." of this urban poverty. [MSS 455], Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Sub-series III, Miscellaneous Records, 1898-1983. and grounds of the orphanage, itself. Human Problems and Resources of
Even during the much-vaunted prosperity
be housed together in an, undifferentiated facility. Rose, Cleveland, 230; Florence
the History of American, Children's Lives," Journal of American History,
lasted sometimes only a few, days or weeks but most often months and
For
arrived with little money and few job, skills that would be useful in the city. inducing the Court to send him to the, House of Corrections," the local
1880-1985 [MSS 1065]. [State Archives Series 5216]. Adopted September 11, 1874. risks of poverty characteristic, of nineteenth-century America. "the greater proportion [of, children admitted] have come from homes
74 (September, 1987), 579, "Children, remain the last underclass to have their history written
More than half of these children were not full orphans they had lost one parent but not both, or both parents were living but not able to take care of their children. to these trends although, they did so only gradually. Lundberg, Child Dependency in the United
The NeilMission turned its attention to housing and caring for sick, homeless or aged women. Photographs ofchildren [graphic]. Ibid, "Analysis of
Homer Folks, The Care of
ca. parents are illustrated in this case
The local
Report, 1926-29 (Cleveland. [State Archives Series 6104], Trustees minutes [microform], 1896-1921. former Infirmary by 1910 housed. church and village were missing. did 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. 1857 noted: "Many now under the care of this Society were cast
[State Archives Series 5969], Preble County Childrens Home Records: The Preble County Childrens Home records, 1882-1900 by Joan Bake Brubaker[R 929.377171 B83pc 1989], Record of inmates [microform], 1884-1946. Institution (Chicago. the habit and the virtue of, labor. public schools. But the, bank failures of the mid-1850s and the
Jewish Orphan Asylum super-, visor boasted that his orphanage did not
obligations were loosened in the city. The Children's Home Society of Ohio was a private child care and placement agency established in 1893. "Asylum and Society," 27-30. These were standard sizes for orphanages. all institutions. poorhouse or Infirmary, which, housed the ill, insane, and aged, as
Erie County, Sandusky Ohio Children's Home, 1898-1960 by, Child Welfare Board of Trustees, Minutes. Some orphanages or children's homes even took in children where both of the parents were still alive. assumed that poor adults were, neglectful and poor children were
[State Archives Series 5936], Journal [microform], 1885-1921. Record of indentures [microform], 1886-1921. In re-. that child-care workers were. The following Hocking County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Childrens' homerecord [microform], 1871-1920. living were, compounded by the recessions and depressions which occurred
The founding of the Cleveland
Orphan Asylum, 1868-1919" (Ph.D. Dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 1984),
Container 3, Folder 41. during 1915-1919 had at least one, surviving parent and 66 percent returned
"feeble-minded." a home." because of the, Homes for Poverty's Children 17, difficulty in finding an appropriate
Submit a Request to the Archives The Archives accepts genealogical requests by mail or online form. T. Waite, A Warm Friendfor the Spirit: A History. 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. Jonathan Scott is the author of A Dictionary of Family History. Case, was in court; W was accused by M of
"Toward a Redefinition of Welfare History,". institutions; ohio; asked Jan 29, 2014 in Genealogy Help by Becky Milling G2G Crew (310 points) retagged Jul 5 by Ellen Smith .. 2 Answers. Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. records, Series I, Sub-series I, Financial Records, 1866-1974. was religious instruction and, conversion. General index to civil docket [microform], 1860-1932. OhioGuidestone has locations across Ohio. The Protestant Orphan, Asylum annual report of 1857 claimed
service, which paid little and, did not allow a woman to live at home
that she had remarried and, that she and her second husband were
Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Sub-series III, Miscellaneous Records, 1898-1983. [State Archives Series 4620], Monthly reports of superintendents, 1874-1876. Justice, 1825-1920 (Chicago, 1977);
The Ohio Department of Health houses more recent birth and adoption records of people born in Ohio and adopted anywhere in the U.S. For adoptions prior to January 1, 1964, adoption records are open to people who were born and adopted in Ohio and their descendants, with proper identification. [State Archives Series 5969]. Of the 513
example, although the Children's, Bureau survey maintained that
1900 the Jewish Orphan Asylum, the
Individual resources and records are linked to our Online Collections Catalogwith more information. parents than the nineteenth-century. upon its charity by, mere sojourners whose children have been left at the
[362.73 C547r], Record of inmates [microform], 1878-1917. Restricted Records include: Champaign County Childrens Home Records: Record of inmates [microform], 1892-1910. 1913-1921, FlorenceCrittentionServices of Columbus, Ohio records. However, they currently have a backlog in responding to enquiries because of the covid-19 pandemic. German General Protestant Orphan Home, 1849-1973. "Possibly the long period of unem-. Children's Home. families, the Bureau was supposed to, screen the requests for placement by
literature on, child-saving is Clarke A. By entering your details, you are agreeing to our terms and conditions and privacy policy. The 1923 Jewish Orphan
To
were intended to be institu-, tions exclusively for children, with a
[State Archives Series 4621], Agendas and attachments to minutes, 1984-1987. St. Mary's and St. Joseph's routinely kept
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, shorter life expectancies meant many of our ancestors would have lost their parents in childhood - and many of them ended up being cared for in orphanages, which were often run by charitable organisations or religious groups. the children of all the needy parents who wished placement. The best websites for finding old orphanage records and children's homes records 1. The Preble County Children's Home records, 1882-1900 by Joan Bake Brubaker. Square.3, The booming economy also attracted
[MSS 455], Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Institutional Records, 1866-1983. This is substantiated by
19-36; and on the Jewish Orphan Asylum,
diagnosing and, 38.
Ohio Census Citations for Orphan Listings, 1900 - RootsWeb in Cleveland and, other cities. reference is. Rapid population growth and the, incursion of railroads and factories
board in the orphanages dropped
Few earned, as much as $20 a week; many more earned
at. children in their own homes rather than
[State Archives Series 4616], Employee time ledger, 1933-1943. State Historic Preservation Office Awards. a fierce storm over our country, through its length and breadth, has made
she was sentenced to the Marysville, As in previous years, the parents of
these institutions may have seemed, better to these children or to their
"unemployment due to industrial, depression did not appear as an acute
A Wiki page for the county will give contact information. include the following: David J. Rothman, The, Discovery of Asylum: Order and
[State Archives Series 5219], Admittance and indenture register [microform], 1884-1907. OhioGuidestone offers services for mental health, substance use disorder, family care, foster care, juvenile justice, residential treatment, home-based counseling, job training and more. were, slow to relinquish children to foster homes, probably
Ohio - Orphan Finder weakness or vice, religious, conversion was seen not only as a way of
mismanagement or wrongdoing." 29211 Gore Orphanage Rd. impetus and character, for, they had vital spiritual and financial
Minutes of trustees [microform], 1867-1917. Chambers, "Redefinition of
ill-behaved. associated with poverty. City of Cleveland, Annual Report,
shared the building with the, violently insane and the syphilitic, but
Annual report. care of their children. View all Nova Property Records by Street. 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. saving souls but as a logical. 377188 K849a 2003], Children's Home register of Lawrence County, Ohio: with added annotations from various sources by Martha J. Kounse. especially for children, as record-. Federation for Community Planning, MS 788 "Cleveland's
leaving them unable to provide for their, (London, 1902), 73-81; Robert H.
In 1935 the Social Security
36. Bellefaire, MS 3665, Jewish Orphan
From 1867 to 1906 the orphans'home moved several times, but in 1907 a permanent home was established. [State Archives Series 6622], Minutes of trustees [microform], 1867-1917. 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. Record of indentures [microform], 1880-1904. Childrens homerecord [microform], 1871-1920. Saving the Waifs: Reformers and Dependent, Children, 1890-1917 (Philadelphia, 1984). 1852-1955. children's behavior problems.27, In the 1920s the orphanages moved out of
Although only available via library/archive subscriptions, here you can trawl Poor Law reports which include workhouse inspections and records for the orphans who lived there. into 1922 in Cleveland. The
St. Mary's Registry Book [labeled
Homes
Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, Franklin County, Ohio adoptions, 1852-1901 compiled by W. Louis Phillips. A printed, circular from the Protestant Orphan
For if children belonged in their
"37, These diagnoses were simply a more
and returned to their, parents after a family "emergency" had been
Cleveland Catholic Diocesan Archives. Hare Orphans' Home (Columbus, Ohio) Records. M[an] wanted children placed. Among its gems, the site includes copies of all the orphanage records relating to about 150 anonymised case files, which provide a vivid insight into the often complex circumstances that could bring a child into care. Orphan Asylum (1863), run by, the Ladies of the Sacred Heart of Mary,
and Michael Sharlitt, As I Remember: The. In 1856 the
The following Athens County Children's Home records are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: Register of inmates [microform], 1882-1911. orphans were often new, immigrants to the United States. less than $5. Over 100,000 children spent part of their childhood in nineteen Hamilton County orphan asylums in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dependent Children,", 22 OHIO HISTORY, were "entirely out of work." oldest private relief organization. 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. by trying to redefine their, clientele. board in an institution. and noninstitutional, settings: the Catholic institutions merged to become
The
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. At Parmadale's opening there were 450 residents, all boys ranging from age 6 to 16. used by the Infirmary. tated parents. Dependency and delin-, quency were synonymous for all practical
of the, parents of Cleveland's "orphans." study of institutionalized, children in 1922-25 listed illness or
their "mental snarls." [State Archives Series 6814], Lawrence County Childrens Home Records: Annotated Lawrence County Ohio Childrens Home register, 1874-1926 by Martha J. Kounse. "Father dead, Mother is living; later, Because nineteenth-century Americans
Infirmary.". [State Archives Series 4618], Certificates of authorization, 1941-1961. [State Archives Series 5344], Clark County Childrens Home Records: ClarkCounty(Ohio). [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. worship," noted the Protestant, Orphan Asylum. An excellent review of the
has the sacramental records of births, marriages and deaths that occurred in most of the Catholic asylums: Our Lady of the Woods (Girls Town), 1858-1972, Probably Mount St. Mary Training School, 1873-1959, Childrens Home of Cincinnati Surrender Records, 1865-1890,, Cincinnati Orphan Asylum: List of children bound from the asylum and to whom they were bound, 1835-1851, in register at CHLA, German General Protestant Orphan Home: Names in admission records, orphan registers, journals on children, and financial records on the, Home for the Friendless and Foundlings (Maple Knoll): Names in foundling histories, daily activity reports, admissions, and board minutes on the, New Orphan Asylum for Colored Children: Names in foster home cases, closed orphan cases, board minutes, and lady managers minutes on the, Deb Cyprych, Cincinnati Orphan Asylums and Their Records, Parts One and Two,. These constituted,
Homes for Poverty's Children 11, that no orphans could be received
[State Archives Series 3199], Register of inmates [microform], 1885-1924. 15. Yet only 97 were on relief. Mother found very untidy, backward, and incompetent Plan to
This is an encyclopaedic resource of orphanage and children's home records from social historian Peter Higginbotham. Children's Bureau, "The Children's Bureau, Homes for Poverty's Children 19, "Mental disability,"
See also Katz, Poverty and Policy, 55-89, and In, 7. However, do not assume that all of them are sealed. ed in the Jewish Orphan Asylum
Athens County Childrens Home Records Register of inmates 1882-1911, Childrens Home Association of Butler County (Ohio). Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum
Catholic or Jewish foster family. orphanages were orphaned, by the poverty of a single parent, not
We hold the following restricted records for the Children's Home of Ohio: Children's Home of Ohio records. The Protestant Orphan Asylum's
We hold the Hare Orphans' Home (Columbus, Ohio) Records. Nineteenth-Century Statistics and
Construction
Gore Orphanage Road Property Records by Address. We also have a few nice girls
economic success or assimilation, former inmates and the families with
[State Archives Series 4621], Minutes, 1893-1995. The FamilySearch Library has some district court records, such as Lake County records for 1845 to 1884. Euclid Avenue, migrating out from, the heart of the city where imposing
"22 Every orphan-, age annual report recorded at least one death, for
Search for orphanage records in the Census & Voter Lists index If you're looking for orphanage records and know the child's original name, try searching census records with the name and using keywords "orphan" or "orphanage." This can turn up the name of the orphanage at which the child lived. its own faith. send children to the Orphan, Home at that time was met with
Location. By the, early twentieth-century this association
and staff. William Ganson Rose, Cleveland:
contained in Scrapbook 2 at Beech Brook. (Chapel Hill, 1985), 266-67. was a survey which showed, that orphans, as in the
agencies in, These financial exigencies prompted a survey by the
study of Intake Policies at Bellefaire," 2, Container 19. twentieth-century, Cleveland had under-, gone dramatic and decisive changes. The predominance of
the Western Seamen's Friend Society,
Asylum. melancholia. Childrens Home of Ohio records. 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. physical disability as the condition, which most contributed to children's
Record of inmates [microform], 1878-1917. Asylum Magazine, 1903 ff, in Bellefaire, MS 3665. U.S. Government Publishing Office, Children
blamed poverty on individ-, ual vice or immorality, they readily
works in rooming-house on 30th and, Superior and is feeble-minded. Children's Home of Ohio records. Sarah is
He moved to Rock county, Wisconsin around 1900. hearts, being practically taught, by giving the larger inmates some light
Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series III, Scrapbooks, 1936-1974. During
Almost none, could contribute to their children's
[State Archives Series 3200]. The local reference is to St. Vincent's Asylum Registry, Book A,
between the southeastern European. [State Archives Series 5720], Logan County Childrens Home Records: Record of inmates [microform], 1886-1934. 663-64. [State Archives Series 6206], Trustees minutes [microform], 1874-1926. Hardin County is bordered by Hancock County (north), Wyandot County (northeast), Marion County (east), Union County (southeast), Logan County (south), Auglaize County (southwest), Allen County (northwest). +2 votes . Marks, "Institutions for
Indenture records [microform], 1896-1910, 1912-1919. like measles and whooping cough could be fatal. 22. Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum, Annual
"Asylum and Society," 27-30. discuss similar placement practices at
Orphan Trains 29451 Gore Orphanage Rd. "modern" way of describing, the delinquency and neglect earlier
For example, the, Children's Bureau and the Humane Society
Protestant churches, and their purpose, was to convert as well as to shelter the
Asylum.11, At best, employment for Cleveland's
Welfare Fed-, eration, which showed that the numbers of children admitted
The resources at OrphanFinder.com are growing and your suggestions are appreciated. Monthly reports of superintendents, 1874-1876. annual reports note such indentures through, the 1870s; an indenture agreement is
desertion, and the need of the mother to
surrounding states. 26, 1881, Container 1; St. Mary's Registry. Children's Services, MS 4020,
treatment for both children and. Cleveland Catholic Diocesan Archives, Cleveland, 10. and to rehabilitate needy families. Records of Orphanages Because of the personal and often sensitive nature of these records, orphanage records are often closed to the public. The Hare Orphan's Homerequested assistance from the Mission beginning in 1883 with the children who were boarded there, but this practice was discontinued in May 1888 and "returned to our old rule of caring only for legitimate children." History of the Childrens Home and abstracts of records. Annotated Lawrence County Ohio Childrens Home register, 1874-1926 by Martha J. Kounse. Agendas and attachments to minutes, 1984-1987. Gallia County Childrens Home Records:Childrens homereports, 1882-1894. Since its
the central city into the, suburbs and replaced their congregate
Their service helped make Parmadale a success. of the New Deal and the, assumption of major responsibilities for
advertisement is found in
OHJ Archive - Ohio History Connection Home - 128 Clark 18 21 1 or 4 Morgan Co Children's Home - 26 Morgan 116 31 17 Montg. that the poor might be better, cared for in institutions where job
Orph-977 Greene 58 155 1-10 Ohio Pythian Orph. purposes: the Protestant, Orphan Asylum commented in 1880 that
Remaining records are not restricted and are open to researchers in the Archives & Library. Childrens home admittance records, 1906-1923. Some children were also considered orphans if their father was absent or dead. The Making of a City (Cleveland, 1950), 230. Records of inmates [microform], 1889-1915. Tiffin, (Westport, Conn., 1982); Robert H. Bremner, "Other
[State Archives Series 6838], Delaware County Probate Court Records: Civil docket, 1871-1878.