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Olive Tree Genealogy has added the following orphan records - Orphans in the Loyal True Blue Orphanage in Picton Ontario in 1901, Miss Rye’s Peckham Homes in 1881, Miss Rye’s Party 1881 on SS Sarmation to Quebec , Father Nugent’s Orphans to Quebec 1881 on SS Sarmation and Father Nugent’s Orphans to Quebec 1870 on SS Austrian

Olive Tree Genealogy has put a list of Child Apprentices in America from Christ’s Hospital, London 1617- 1778 online. This is an index only (full name plus page number) but a link is provided for lookup requests on Books We Own.

Alms House Admission Foreigners & Nativity Records ( New York City, NY) have been updated. These records apply to immigrants to Quebec, Montreal, New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans and Boston. They came from Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Germany and other countries.
AllEnglishRecords.com has extracted the names of those Scottish, Irish and English individuals. You […]

In the early 1800’s port cities in the USA bore the burden of immigration. By the time they arrived, so many immigrants were tired, hungry and poor they ended up in the City Almshouse. Some of the information taken by Almshouse clerks was the place of birth of each person, the name of the ship they arrived on and where the ship sailed from.

As early as 1653, New York City (formerly called New Amsterdam) recognized that it needed to care for the city’s minor children, widows, and orphans. There were many orphanages and orphan asylums in the 19th century. Many of these institutions were founded in New York City to care for destitute children of immigrants from Ireland and Russia, Germany and other eastern European countries.