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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
:*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''
:*The girls were transferred to the Lawrence Military Asylum , Lovedale in 1904. [http://books.google.com/books?id=vERnljM1uiEC&pg=PA315 Limited View Google Books], page 315 ''Gazetteer of South India, Volume 2 '' by W Francis 1988
*[[Poonamallee]] Military Asylum, about 15 miles from Madras, 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 girls were transferred to the MMFOA in 1826, and boys possibly in 1835.
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