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==Madras Military Male Orphan Asylum==

[[Image:Madras map 1862.jpg|thumb|300px|Madras, 1862, showing the Military Male Asylum (centre)]]

*Information about the founding of both the Female and Male Military Orphan Asylums is contained in [http://www.archive.org/stream/churchinmadrasbe01penn#page/508/mode/2up''The church in Madras : being the history of the ecclesiastical and missionary action of the East India Company in the presidency of Madras''], page 508 by Rev Frank Penny (1904) Archive.org

*The Rev Dr Andrew Bell was the first Director and Superintendent of the Asylum at Egmore from 1789-1796. At the time of his appointment the system of teaching was inadequate and this lead to his founding the 'Madras System of Education' - a monitorial method whereby older pupils instructed those younger, in addition to receiving instruction from their seniors. The first monitor was a boy named John Frisken, who later became the printer of the Madras Courier. After Bell's return to the UK in 1796, this system of education was adopted in various schools both in England and also in his native Scotland.The Madras College, Fife, still recognises the influence of it's founder. For further details see [http://www.madras.fife.sch.uk/archive/articles/therevdrandrewbell.html The Rev Dr Andrew Bell] madras.fife.sch.uk.

[https://web.archive.org/web/20190405054619/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/1316102/ Revenue Surveyor] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 27 February 2011, archived.</ref> "Madras Observatory ran a surveying school from 1794 to 1810 to train teenager European orphaned boys as practical revenue surveyors".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140125143502/http://www.new1.dli.ernet.in/data1/upload/insa/INSA_1/20005b66_317.pdf "Science in British India"] by RK Kochhar ''Indian Journal of History of Science'' 34(4) 1999 pp317-346 (page 329, page 13 of the link)</ref>

*1829 letter by W Webbe, former pupil, regarding his schooldays c 1790’s, footnotes [http://books.google.com/books?id=xgNPsoCD9i4C&pg=PA397 pages 397-398]. He appears as William Webbe in the list of Foundation Boys for 1790 in the listing of names on page 222 of ''The Madras School''

*In June 1821, the Governor in Council authorised the formation of a corps of [[Ordnance#Carnatic Ordnance Artificers|Carnatic Ordnance Artificers]], to be recruited from the sons of Europeans born in India and to be enlisted as European soldiers. They were to come from the Orphan Asylum, the fort school, and from other charitable institutions. One of the reasons for the establishment was the desirability of providing suitable employment for a portion of the Eurasian (mixed race) population.<ref name=Ord/>

*[http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=210&s_id=56 Entries to the Madras Military Asylum in 1825-1826] in FIBIS Search. In the majority of the cases the ” Person Recommending Boy” was stated to be the Poonamallee Asylum, (see below) perhaps suggesting transfer from this Asylum at a particular age, or amalgamation of the two Asylums, as happened with the Girls' Asylums. This could imply the boys were orphaned some years earlier.

*Amalgamation with the [[Lawrence Military Asylum|Lawrence Asylum]] was considered from 1860. In April 1864 the land at Lovedale, near [[Ootacamund]], was selected for the combined institutions and new buildings were constructed. 220 boys from the MMMOA moved in September 1871 [http://books.google.com/books?id=luXS-8vTrJQC&pg=PA262 Limited View Google Books] ''The Nilgiris,Volume 1 of Madras district gazetteers'' by W Francis (1994) reprint of an earlier book, probably 1908.

*Another mention of the transfer to the Lawrence Asylum, Lovedale in September 1871 [http://books.google.com/books?id=PJAIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA65 Google Books]

==Madras Military Female Orphan Asylum==