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:*''The Madras School: or, Elements of Tuition: comprising the Analysis of an Experiment in Education, made at the Male Asylum, Madras; with its facts, proofs, and illustrations'' (1808) 348 pages [http://books.google.com/books?id=8nTsZVDIygIC Google Books] ([http://books.google.com/books?id=8nTsZVDIygIC&pg=PR11 Contents]). [http://books.google.com/books?id=8nTsZVDIygIC&pg=PA212 Page 212] onwards contains letters written by his former pupils to Dr Bell, including a listing of names from the bottom of [http://books.google.com/books?id=8nTsZVDIygIC&pg=PA218 page 218] to page 223.
*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''
*[http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/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.
*[http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=96&s_id=206&sort=0&st=0&np=2&tn=48 Entry to the Madras Military Male Asylum in July 1835] in FIBIS Search. This listing appears to consist of three groups
**“Boy at Friend in Need Society”, boys who were blind or otherwise disabled
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/2008-05/1209973186 post] indicates that records for the Madras Military Male Orphan Asylum for 1829-1833 were held by the [[Lawrence Military Asylum|Lawrence Asylum]] in 1892. The document mentioned may be viewed here on [http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_picture&id=514&s_id=31 FIBIS Search].
==Madras Military Female Orphan Asylum== *[http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=231&s_id=387&sort=0&st=0&np=20&tn=584 Madras Military Female Asylum] in FIBIS Search. The record details say: A transcription of details of several hundred orphaned girls attending the Madras Military Female Asylum in 1839. This includes some details of girls who had left the establishment between 1829 and 1838.The records have been transcribed from those found in India Office Records Collection F/4/1855 Coll. 78480. Note that prior to 1826, orphaned girls of soldiers of the British Army attended a separate asylum at 'Poonamallee'. The two institutions were combined in 1826.
*Peter Bailey, "The Madras Military Female Orphan Asylum," ''FIBIS Journal No 6 (Autumn 2001)''. For details of how to access this article online, see [[FIBIS Journals]].
*Page 224 of this Google Books [http://books.google.com/books?id=AbYBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA224 link], published 1855
==Poonamallee Military Asylum==
[[Poonamallee]] is a town about 15 miles from Madras. An asylum for the children of [[British Army]] soldiers, was established in 1819. See [http://books.google.com/books?id=26sEAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA195 page 195] ''The Calcutta Annual Register'' (1821) Google Books. It is not clear how long this Asylum continued. Some/all All the girls were transferred to the MMFOA in 1826. All the boys may have been transferred at this time also, and with only very young boys possibly remaining under the care of the Poonamallee Asylum, such as those who appear to have been transferred to the MMMOA in 1835.
==Free, Black Town and Civil Orphan Asylums==
