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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]

Allen County, Indiana Poor Asylum Records, (now Byron Health Care Center), Registers for 1853-1939

Database from The Genealogy Center, Fort Wayne & Allen County, Indiana Resources.

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.

Ancestry.com - New York, Census of Inmates in Almshouses and Poorhouses, 1830-1920 $

Original source: New York. State Board of Charities. Census of Inmates in Almshouses and Poorhouses, 1835

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

Chester County, Pennsylvania - Archives - Poorhouse & Pauper Records

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.

Jeff Knaggs - Genealogy - 1901 Institutions

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

JoDaviess County Almshouse Registers Index (1846

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

Marion Ohio Poorhouse

Admissions, deaths, discharges 1856-1888.

Ogle County Almshouse Register Index, 1878

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

Onondaga County Poorhouse

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

Poorhouses in Nebraska

From the NEGenWeb Project.

Some Washington County Poor House Records

New York.

State Records of South Australia - Destitute Asylum

The first Ordinance relating to the maintenance of the destitute was passed in 1843. The Destitute Board was appointed in 1849 and was responsible for overseeing and relieving those who had no means, or relatives, to support themselves.

Surrey County Council - Richmond Poor Law Union application and report books

Free downloadable PDF files. The application and report books are a record of those applying for poor relief for the Richmond Union workhouse.

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.