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→Madras Military Female Orphan Asylum
*MMFOA moved to Conway's Garden, Kilpauk before 1822, [http://books.google.com/books?id=h2nkEiSSDaYC&pg=PA563 Limited View Google Books], page 563 ''Indian Records Series Vestiges of Old Madras 1640-1800''
*In 1842 five girls aged 14 to 16 were sent to Sydney where they arrived in January 1843 and were admitted to the Sydney Orphan School. Refer [[Australia]], Orphans.
*A newspaper item from the ''Bombay Times & Journal of Commerce'', 2nd April 1851 is shown in [[Orphan newspaper items]]
*The girls, about 100, were transferred to the [[Lawrence Military Asylum|Lawrence Asylum, Lovedale]] in October 1904. [http://books.google.com/books?id=luXS-8vTrJQC&pg=PA263 Limited View Google Books] page 263, The Nilgiris Volume 1 of Madras district gazetteers by W Francis 1994 reprint of an earlier book, probably 1908 and [http://books.google.com/books?id=vERnljM1uiEC&pg=PA315 Limited View Google Books], page 315 ''Gazetteer of South India, Volume 2'' by W Francis 1988 (probably a reprint of an earlier book, perhaps 1905.)
*View a 1860 record, part of [http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_picture&id=17&s_id=31 FIBIS Documents]
