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Orphan Schools
:*page 61 of this Google Book [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=OG8FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA61 link], published 1842
:*FIBIS Journal – 6 (Autumn 2001) The Madras Military Female Orphan Asylum - by Peter Bailey. To access this article [http://www.fibis.org/members-area.htm FIBIS Members] [http://shop.fibis.org/journal.html Non Members]
*Poomamallee Military Asylum , about 15 miles from Madras, for the children of British Army soldiers was established in 1819 [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 girls were transferred to the MMFOA in 1826, and boys possibly in 1835.
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