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==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
