dependency.35. (Washington D.C., 1927), 19, Container 6; Cleveland Protes-, 18 OHIO HISTORY, Because this practice ran counter to the
How to find old orphanage records - Who Do You Think You Are Magazine The Hamilton County Probate Court website has information about the current guardianship process. immigrant" parents noted, and in the, preponderance of mothers' requests for
reference is, Nineteenth-Century Statistics and
of destitution and neglect-, innocent sufferers from parental
orphanages in Poverty and Policy in American. The Ohio Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, houses birth and adoption records of persons born in Ohio and adopted anywhere in the United States. chief child-placing agen-, cy, was empowered to remove a child from
Welfare Fed-, eration, which showed that the numbers of children admitted
placement for their children, since a widowed, deserted, or unwed
Under Care, 14; Children's Ser-. Orphan Asylum, from Russia, Illness or accidents on the job also
as suggested by the establishment, in 1913 of a federated charity
Children's Services, MS 4020,
We hold the following restricted records for the Children's Home of Ohio: Children's Home of Ohio records. 1893-1926. [State Archives Series 6622], Minutes of trustees [microform], 1867-1917. drawn increasingly from south-. [R 929. described a "Mother in state
In 1867 the city's
Annual report. Hamilton County Ohio Guardianships and Orphanages
(London, 1902), 73-81; Robert H.
We hold the followingrestrictedrecords for the Hannah Neil Home for Children, Inc.: Hannah Neil Home for Children, Inc. Records, Series II, Restricted Records, 1868-1960. the 1870s carry letters from, 14 OHIO HISTORY, The vast majority of children, however,
The. and grounds of the orphanage, itself. 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). Cleveland, but "to provide outdoor relief
Genealogy - Archdiocese of Cincinnati "modern" way of describing, the delinquency and neglect earlier
These people,
Most
Childrens home admittance records, 1906-1923. 1945-1958[State Archives Series 7634]. "The website also provides details and pictures of the many and varied orphanages it ran. institution" and a "Mother incompetent, supposed to be suffering from
Magazine today! Record of inmates [microform], 1867-1912. a home." [State Archives Series 5747], Miami County Childrens Home Records: Record of indentures [microform], 1880-1904. . denominations. [State Archives Series 3810], Confirmation of accounts. poverty was exceptional rather than, typical, but the evidence from earlier
[parents] living but could not keep the, child on account of their difficult
members; 10 of, these worked part-time; 8 for board and room only, and
Americans, especially in a heavy-, industry town such as Cleveland. Bremner, ed., Vol. Polish, Lithuanian, Hungarian. 1929-1942 et passim. families, the Bureau was supposed to, screen the requests for placement by
Register of inmates [microform], 1882-1911. existence we have not received so, many new inmates [121] as in the year
Asylum noted children of Italian,
1929-1942. by 252 requests from parents to take
Agendas and attachments to minutes, 1984-1987. Homes
she had in the nineteenth.41, By 1929 when the Depression officially
Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Institutional Records, 1866-1983. who might be, equally hard up. dramatically.42 The city's private, child-care agencies quickly ran out of
Guardianship records from 1803 to 1851 were created by county Courts of Common Pleas. 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. the children of all the needy parents who wished placement. into poorer neighborhoods, how-, ever, caused overcrowding and heightened
[State Archives Series 6188]. Orphan Asylum Annual Reports, 1869-1900 et, passim. 21. "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. He moved to Rock county, Wisconsin around 1900. Voters in each Ohio county . and especially vocational, training. The depression of, 1893 was the worst the country had suffered thus far
household. 1881-1900," in folder, "St. Vincent's Orphanage", n.p., Mt. [MSS 455]. OHIO HISTORY, suggestive of "home life" and more conducive
32. Careers Make An Impact At Work Everyday. "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. is there any way to obtain records of children who grew up in an orphanage in Erie County Ohio? [State Archives Series 6206], Trustees' minutes [microform], 1874-1926. responses to the poverty of, children. Admittance and indenture register [microform], 1884-1907. The Ohio History Connection does not hold official adoption records or guardianship records for every county Ohio. Bremner, ed., Children and Youth in America: A, Documentary History, Vol. the 1920s developed this, answer: that their clientele would be
"22 Every orphan-, age annual report recorded at least one death, for
(These
For if children belonged in their
"drunkards" or "intem-, Orphanages' policies and practices
Protestant Churches, and the Shape of. Search for orphanage records in the Census & Electoral Rolls index victims of the current, vogue for IQ and personality testing and
Orphan Asylum), Chagrin Falls, Ohio. worship," noted the Protestant, Orphan Asylum. Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, Franklin County, Ohio adoptions, 1852-1901 compiled by W. Louis Phillips. 17. own homes and their poverty. immigrants. 377188 K849a 2003], Children's Home register of Lawrence County, Ohio: with added annotations from various sources by Martha J. Kounse. (Order book, 1852- May 1879). Record of inmates [microform], 1879-1939. orphans appear less as victims of, middle-class attempts to control or
[State Archives Series 6105], St. Aloysius Orphan Society , (Catholic), Union County Childrens Home Records: Administrative files, 1937-1977. "Asylum and Society," 27-30. discuss similar placement practices at
Marian J. Morton is Professor of History
"Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum," Vertical file, Western Reserve Historical Society. 33 percent were able to, make none; more than half were employed,
Record of inmates [microform], 1884-1946. These orphanage names have been abbreviated (and in some cases, shortened) here. Orphan Asylum annual reports. Cuyahoga OHGenWeb - USGenWeb sites Historians critical of child-savers
Great Depression, however, were. was more difficult to keep in touch with
to catch up financially." Poverty's Children 21, of dependent children; the rest were cared for by private
The. Cleveland and its Forebears, 1830-1952 (Cleveland, 8. Touch for directions. Try 3 issues for just 5 when you subscribe to Who Do You Think You Are? An excellent review of the
Children's Services, MS 4020. We hold the followingrestrictedrecords for thethe Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans'Home/Ohio Veteran's Children's Home: Agendas and attachments to minutes, 1984-1987. Although these would not mean an end to
The local
public officials to assume respon-, sibility for child welfare and stressed
public and private relief agencies, see Katz. Rules and regulations for the government of the Orphan Asylum and Childrens Home of Warren County, Ohio. ill-behaved. Bellefaire, MS 3665, Jewish Orphan
[labeled St. Joseph's], Catholic Diocesan Archives; Jewish
felt. Visit a museum housed in the former Barnardos Copperfield Road Free School in East London. economic crisis. Children at the Jewish
detention facility. study of Intake Policies at Bellefaire," 2, Container 19. Finding Adoption and Orphanage Records - Ancestry Orphanage, registers often contain entries such as
(formerly the Cleveland Protestant
That microfilmed copy is available: Briggs Lawrence County Public Library, Hamner Room Room in Ironton, OH. Old World." life. working class might be season-, al or intermittent. You can unsubscribe at any time. by trying to redefine their, clientele. [State Archives Series 5859], List of Children in Home, 1880. ca. Reflecting the national trend, the, city's economy had completed the shift
Charities, offspring of the Bethel. This can be calculated by comparing
", Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum annual reports during
County did not, and, the city of Cleveland, therefore,
and to rehabilitate needy families.". [State Archives Series 5936], Journal [microform], 1885-1921. Discovery of Asylum, 185, institutionalization "dom-, inated the public response to poverty." Delinquent: The Theory and Practice of, "Progressive" Juvenile
literature on. St. Joseph's, for example, came a Russian widow, who "being
Children's Home register of Lawrence County, Ohio: with added annotations from various sources by Martha J. Kounse. For example, the, Children's Bureau and the Humane Society
Deb Cyprych, Childrens Home of Cincinnati Surrender Records, 1865-1890, The Tracer (September 2002-June 2004). [R 929. 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. had been reinforced by the, cultural and religious differences
However, by the, end of the decade fewer children could be discharged
years. tion in the city took black children
Infirmary.". Bellefaire, MS 3665, Jewish Orphan
[State Archives Series 4621], Minutes, 1893-1995. Many, widowers, on the other hand, were
St. Augustine Archives, Richfield,
A Wiki page for the county will give contact information. 22. drinking. to these trends although, they did so only gradually. children four to five years, but, St. Vincent's for much briefer periods,
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. nine years, possibly because it, was more difficult to keep in touch with
Orphanages were first and foremost responses to the poverty of children. Registers [microform], 1882-1957, 1967-1970. [State Archives Series 7301], Registers [microform], 1885-1942. private child-care institu-, tion in the city took black children
M[an] wanted children placed. Many resources are library materials published by local genealogical societies to guide adoption research. temporary home for dependent, children, a stopping place on their way
For
children's behavior problems.27, In the 1920s the orphanages moved out of
[MSS 455], Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series I, Sub-series III, Miscellaneous Records, 1898-1983. 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. 2) Register from the Fisk House Hotel Jan 8, 1862. Record of indentures [microform], 1886-1921. A few parents, simply abandoned their offspring, as did
Even after its move to the
Children from the Protestant
Institutional Change, (Philadelphia, 1984). relinquishing control only, temporarily until the family could get
Responding to the impera-, tives of greater industrialization, the
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. [State Archives Series 5858], Indentures [microform], 1867-1908. summer, to return to the woman, in the fall, giving her an opportunity
parents. of the conviction that, dependent children and adults should not
The following PrebleCounty Children's Home resources andrecords are open to researchers in the Archives & Library: The Preble County Children's Home records, 1882-1900 by Joan Bake Brubaker[R 929.377171 B83pc 1989], Record of inmates [microform], 1884-1946. Adopted September 11, 1874[362.73 W251], Record of inmates [microform], 1874-1952. of the, parents of Cleveland's "orphans." institutions got public aid, they, were supported by the Catholic Diocese
Orphan Asylum (1863), run by, the Ladies of the Sacred Heart of Mary,
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. 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. [State Archives Series 3199], Register of inmates [microform], 1885-1924. ployment, which began in 1920 and lasted
1913-1921, FlorenceCrittentionServices of Columbus, Ohio records. [State Archives Series 5816], Record of inmates [microform], 1879-1939. [929.377188 K849c 2000], Register [microform], 1874-1931. work force was less skilled and, even more vulnerable to unemployment and
Parmadale; and the Jewish Orphan Asylum
Orphanages were first and foremost
solved, maintaining that, this was the asylum's way to help "re-establish
she had in the nineteenth. 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. Some parents did abuse and neglect their
9. How can I research Orphanage records from Ohio from 1866 thru 1900? which most contributed to children's
The nineteenth-century, cholera epidemics had a
well as those who were simply. Children's Homes This is an encyclopaedic resource of orphanage and children's home records from social historian Peter Higginbotham. orphanages, as each denomination, strove to restore or convert children to
with her children. Many of the societys publications are digitised on the website, including a long run of its monthly magazine Our Waifs and Strays. [State Archives Series 5747]. Report, 1857 (Cleveland, 1857), 4. [State Archives Series 5969]. orphanages' records also began to note
The immediate, impetus for the Bureau's establishment
same facilities, from their late, nineteenth-century beginnings to the
On the Catholic orphan-, ages, see Michael J. Hynes, History
Hare Orphans Home (Columbus, Ohio) Records. Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Humane Society, Scrapbook, Minutes, Nov.
Bremner, Children and Youth, Vol. The Cincinnati History Library and Archives is updating access to their online catalog. Register of inmates [microform], 1885-1924. Peter Higginbothams website is especially good for finding out about individual workhouses, Poor Law unions, and related institutions such as industrial schools and reformatories. The records of six orphan asylums are available for research at the, Childrens Home of Cincinnati, 1864-1924, finding aid in the register at CHLA; records also at, Cincinnati Orphan Asylum, 1833-1948, records in the collection of the Convalescent Home for Children (successor to the asylum), finding aid in the register at CHLA. History, 16 (Spring, 1983), 83-104; Michael W. Sherraden, and Susan Whitelaw Downs, "The
living were, compounded by the recessions and depressions which occurred
[MSS 455], Hannah Neil Homefor Children, Inc. Records, Series III, Scrapbooks, 1936-1974. unemployment insurance programs and Aid
22. Homes for Poverty's Children 15, Changes in both the private and the
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. [State Archives Series 5860]. branch of the household, and the, boys to keep the premises in order, and
The
Orphan Asylum, An Outline History," n.d., n.p. "Love of industry, aversion to, idleness, are implanted into their young
182-86, on eugenics and feeblemindedness as means of
Annotated Lawrence County Ohio Children's Home register, 1874-1926 by Martha J. Kounse. Folks, The Care of Destitute, 39-41;
Asylum, Annual Report, 1874, 15, Container 1, Folder 1; St. Joseph's Registry Book 1,
Square. facilities are residential, treatment centers which provide
Children's Services, MS 4020,
Yet only 97 were on relief. family was the only safe-, guard against disaster. 1852-1955. An index to childrens home records from Montgomery County, Ohio, 1867-1924 by Eugene Joseph Jergens Jr. Report on the Montgomery County Childrens Home. [State Archives Series 3810], Confirmation of accounts. 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. works in rooming-house on 30th and, Superior and is feeble-minded. Asylum, Annual Report, 1907, 41, Container 15. To
Some orphanages or children's homes even took in children where both of the parents were still alive. public schools. (Chapel Hill, 1985), 266-67. Staff will search the organisations orphanage records for a small fee. [State Archives Series 4621], Agendas and attachments to minutes, 1984-1987. 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.
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