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1901 Census - Institutions

Index to Institutions in the 1901 census of England & Wales.

A Census Guide to Oklahoma's Poor Farms, Orphanages, Sanitariums and Institutions

[The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

Almshouse Admission Foreigners & Nativity Records with Ships Names 1855-1858 (New York City, NY)

Searchable database of Almshouse records of New York City 1855-1858. These records provide immigration details, ages, places of birth and more. They list immigrants to Quebec, Montreal, New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans and Boston.

Arapahoe County, Colorado Poor Hospital Records 1895 - 1899

Colorado.

Charities, Bureau of

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Historical information of this city government agency and a description and location of its records from the Philadelphia Information Locator System.

Charles Booth and Poverty Mapping in Late Nineteenth Century London

Charles Booth Online Archive

Charles Booth's survey of Life and Labour in London 1886 - 1903. The survey interviewed workers and families to discover the level of poverty of Londoners at the turn of the century.

Charles Booth's 1889 Descriptive Map of London Poverty

Destitute Poor Removed from England to Ireland, from the 1st day of December 1860 till the 1st day of December 1862

Return of destitute poor removed from England to Ireland, from 1 December 1860 to 1 December 1862; the port of departure in England and the port of arrival in Ireland; also the number of years each person had resided in England; and the cause for and date of each removal.

Jo Daviess County Poor House

Illinois.

Marion Ohio Poorhouse

Admissions, deaths, discharges 1856-1888.

Ogle County Almshouse Register Index, 1878–1933

Ogle County, Illinois. Compiled by the Illinois Regional Archives Depository System, Northern Illinois University.

Onondaga County Poorhouse

New York. Includes inmate, deaths, and bound-out children transcriptions.

Poor Farm, Reno Township, Reno County, Kansas

Poor Records - Shows a New York Certificate of Removal from 1836

Poorhouses in Nebraska

From the NEGenWeb Project.

Some Washington County Poor House Records

New York.

Sydney Benevolent Asylum - Index to Admissions and Discharges 1857-1900

The database contains over 78,000 records and as much as possible, it is a listing of all the inmates of the Asylum between 1857 and 1900.

The 19th Century Poor Law in Liverpool and its Hinterland: Towards the Origins of the Workhouse Infirmary

Article by M.W.Royden.

The Poor Jews' Temporary Shelter Database

Searchable database of over 45,000 register entries of those who arrived at the Shelter in Leman Street, London from 1896 to 1914.