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 Madras Military Female Asylum

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Date transcribed2001-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that data available for each of the girls are not the same. This is a compilation of three sets of data

A. Girls who left the Asylum between 1829 & 1838

B. Girls Attending the Asylum in 1839

C. 'Poonamallee' Girls attending the Asylum in 1839

(Poonamalle Girls were transferred in 1826 from the separate asylum in Poonamallee for orphans of soldiers of the British Army)

First Name  Caroline    
Surname  Pearce    
Status of Girl  At Nurse    
Present Age (1839)  1 - 9    
Age when Admitted  1 - 5 - 0    
Date of Admission  07 Apr 1838    
List in Which Girl  Poonamallee Girls' attending the Asylum in 1839    
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A transcription of details of several hundred orphaned girls attending the Madras Military Female Asylum in 1839. This includes some details of girls who had left the establishment between 1829 and 1838.

The records have been transcribed from those found in India Office Records Collection F/4/1855 Coll. 78480
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