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→Madras Military Female Orphan Asylum
*Page 224 of this Google Books [http://books.google.com/books?id=AbYBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA224 link], published 1855
*Page 61 of this Google Book [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=OG8FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA61 link], published 1842
*This [http://spuddybike.org.uk/familyhistory/madras/MadrasMFAsylum.html link] about the founding of both the Female and Male Military Orphan Asylums contains information from the book''The church in Madras : being the history of the ecclesiastical and missionary action of the East India Company in the presidency of Madras'' by Rev Frank Penny (1904)
*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.
