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1900 Census[edit | edit source]
This is the most complete source on the internet of orphans in the 1900 census in California. It also covers adults connected with the orphanages.
1900 Census Fields
- Name, relation, color, gender
- Birth month, year, age
- Marital status, years married
- Mother of how many children, number of children living
- Birth place, birth place of father, birthplace of mother
- Year of immigration, number of years in the U.S., naturalization status
- Occupation, months unemployed
- Months at school, literacy (read, write, speak English)
- Additional questions
Additional entries can be found at this RootsWeb link
Partial listing of 1900-1930 California Orphanages[edit | edit source]
- Alameda Sanatorium (Alameda County)[1]
- Bird's Nest Orphanage (Alameda County)[1]
- Boys and Girls Aid Society of Los Angeles County (Los Angeles County)[1]
- Fresno County Orphanage (Fresno County)[1]
- Golden Gate Orphanage (Alameda County)[1]
- Good Templar Home for Orphans (Solano County)[1]
- Grass Valley Orphan Asylum (Nevada County)[1]
- Home of the Guardian Angel Orphanage (Los Angeles County)[1]
- I.O.O.F. Orphans' Home (Santa Clara County)[1]
- Industrial Home Society - renamed McKinley Children's Home
- Josephonium Orphan Asylum (Alameda County)[1]
- Ladies' Relief Society's Home for Aged Women; Ladies' Relief Society's Orphanage (Alameda County)[1]
- Los Angeles Orphan Asylum (Los Angeles County)[1]
- Los Angeles Orphans Home (Los Angeles County)[1]
- The Maria Kipp Orphanage 1900 census (partial) listing here
- Masonic Widow's and Orphan's Home (Alameda County)[1]
- McKinley Orphanage, 3841 19th Street, San Francisco. Opened circa 1897
- 1900 Census (San Francisco Methodist Orphanage)
- 1910 Census (McKinley Orphanage and Youth's Directory)
- 1920 Census (McKinley Orphanage)
- 1930 Census (McKinley Orphanage)
- McKinley Children's Home, originally the Industrial Home Society (San Francisco County)
- Notre Dame Institute (Santa Clara County)[1]
- Orphans' Home (San Bernardino County)[1]
- Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Home Society (San Francisco County)[1]
- Protestant Orphan Asylum (Sacramento County)[1]
- Protestant Orphan Asylum (San Francisco County)[1]
- Sacramento Foundlings Home (Sacramento County)[1]
- San Francisco Boys Home (San Francisco County)[1]
- San Francisco Children's Orphanage (San Francisco County)[1]
- San Francisco Lying In Hospital and Foundling Asylum (San Francisco County)[1]
- St. Catherine's Orphan Asylum (San Bernardino County)[1]
- St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum (Marin County)[1]
- Sunshine Home Orphanage (Alameda County )[1]
- West Oakland Foundling Home ( Alameda County )[1]
- Women and Child's Home (San Diego County)[1]
- Youth's Directory (San Francisco County) [1]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 RootsWeb has a listing of residents and employees of California orphanages enumerated in the 1900 U.S. Federal Census of California, https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~orphanshome/genealogy/censusrooms/uscensus/california/1900/tocca00.htm