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*[httphttps://www.metmuseum.org/Collectionsart/collection/search-the-collections/287843 Photograph: Orphan School, Calcutta] by Captain R. B. Hill 1850s Metropolitan Museum of Art New York. Probably Richard Barton Hill 1835-1873, who joined the Bengal Army in 1853.*[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=775&s_id=229 FIBIS database: Bengal Military Orphan Society] including **[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=691&s_id=775 FIBIS database: Bengal Military Orphans 1798]. Alphabetical list of all orphaned children of officers of the Bengal Army who had been/were in the care of the Bengal Orphan Military Society from the inception of the Society to 31 December 1798. Includes children both in England and India. Based on ''The Continuation or Supplement to the Code of Bengal Military Regulations'' by Henry Grace, pages 369-380, published 1799, with some additional remarks , probably added by Sir Patrick Cadell . ''The Continuation'' is now available online [https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-continuation-or-supp_east-india-company-army_1799_2/page/n531/mode/2up at the Archive.org] (added 2023/09)**[[British Library]https://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=899&s_id=775 FIBIS database: Bengal Orphan Upper School 1877-1879]. A List of children from the Upper Orphans Asylum in the late eighteenth, all the nineteenth and also on early twentieth century. In some instances are included reports and other data submitted by the [[Subscription websites-online newspapersAsylum authorities, journals including those relating to subscribers to the Bengal Military Orphans' Society and directories|subscription website]] Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) Bengal Military Fund.**[httphttps://wwwfibis.searchourarchives.fibis.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=775719&s_id=229 137 FIBIS database: Bengal Orphan Upper Orphan School 1820-1857] . "Alphabetical list of orphaned children of officers of the Bengal Army, 1820-1857[located in the Military >Pensions category of the database]. The data include Dates of Birth, Dates of Admission to and Discharge from the Asylum, Name of father, etc." These were orphans who had returned to Britain and whose guardians had received payment there from the Bengal Military Orphan Society. They were not physically in an Asylum, so the date of discharge from the Asylum is rather the date of discharge from the Society, when benefits were finalised, as indicated by the British Library catalogue entry “alphabetical lists of orphans, admitted to pension c 1820-c 1857, giving dates of birth, admission and discharge” <ref>[http://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlag_3-1&cid=1-1-7-8&kw=IOR/L/AG/23/7/7#1-1-7-8 Bengal Military Orphan Society IOR/L/AG/23/7/7 c1820-c1857] Access to Archives. Retrieved 3 August 2014</ref> These records are also now available on the pay website [[Findmypast|findmypast]].*[[FamilySearch Centres|LDS microfilm]] catalogue entry [https://www.familysearch.org/engsearch/librarycatalog/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=643841&disp=Bengal+military+orphans+society%2C+1818++ Bengal military orphans society, 1818-1873].The original records are available at the [[British Library]] and are in respect of Officers’ orphans. Some of these records have been transcribed by FIBIS, and are available on the FIBIS database (refer above)

*The location of the Lower Orphan School is shown on the far right hand side , approximately midway, of the [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:4178090?buttons=y 1832 Calcutta Map] by J.B. Tassin, near the Alipore Jail. Published in Calcutta [http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/maps/digitalmaps/ Harvard Digital Maps] (HOLLIS ID 011490109)

*[https://archive.org/details/dli.calcutta.04031/page/n141/mode/1up Image: Military Orphan School at Howrah] between pages 131-132 with some text on [https://archive.org/details/dli.calcutta.04031/page/n143/mode/1up page 133] ''Bengal Past and Present Volume 52 July-December 1936'' Archive.org. The location from 1785 to 1815.*Needlework of a very high standard was produced “by the directions of Mistress Parker School Mistress in the Orphan School near Calcutta”, believed to be the Lower Orphan School, circa 1790’s. A sampler by Anne Jennings is shown in [http://books.google.com/books?id=d22WUEmG49IC&pg=PA46-IA2 ''Poor Relations''], page 46.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=d22WUEmG49IC&pg=PA46-IA2 ''Poor relations: the making of a Eurasian community in British India, 1773-1833''], page 46 by Christopher Hawes 1996 Google Books. A copy of anne Anne Jenning's sampler is also shown in ''Stitched in Adversity: Samplers of the Poor''. Exhibition at Whitney Antiques, Whitney, Oxfordshire, UK 2006. Item 13 Anne Jennings Circa 1795. The sampler contains three long texts. The first is headed Written by the King of Prussia at Breslaw and commences "Love by hope is still sustained zeal". The second consists of the words of the poem [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=KwkOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA74 "To the Affluent"] by M, from the Poetry section of ''Freemasons’ Magazine, or General and Complete Library, Volume 2'', January 1794. The third is the poem [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=aGVJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA107 "Gratitude"] by Joseph Addison,

</ref> [http://www.archive.org/stream/samplerstapestry00huisrich#page/34/mode/2up/search/Calcutta ''Samplers & tapestry embroideries''], page 35 by Marcus Bourne Huish 1913 (Archive.org) describes a group of six samplers completed in 1797, also under the supervision of Mistress Parker, with an [http://www.archive.org/stream/samplerstapestry00huisrich#page/n33/mode/2up/search/Calcutta illustration]. These samplers are now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.<ref> ''Stitched in Adversity: Samplers of the Poor''</ref>. This India List post.<ref>Evers, Maureen. [httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20210209013409/https://archivermlarchives.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thlistindexes/read/INDIAemails?listname=india&thread=1662942 Mistress Parker and Anne Jennings, Calcutta c 1790/Needlework] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 29 May 2010-05, now archived.</1275031324 post] requests further information.ref>

*[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=416&s_id=229 FIBIS Database: Calcutta Free School Prizes 1878] The description of these records states that there were 395 children on the school roll, of whom 130 were girls, and that there were 10 times as many applicants as places.

*[http://www.eict.org.in/tiki-index.php The East India Charitable Trust] is mentioned in the above article as a possible source of records. Select "Contact Us" for contact detailsCurrently (9 February 2021) a website could not be located, but there is a Facebook page.

*Times of India Calendar & Directory for 1888 page 441, transcribed by Sylvia Murphy. Note that by this date only one orphan belonged to the Military Asylum, funded by the Government, "the Government having prohibited new additions".<ref>Murphy, Sylvia [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-10/1255334436 Schools in Byculla] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 12 October 2009. Retrieved 22 October 2014.</ref>*David King’s webpage states that in the early 1920’s a decision was made to move the Boarding part of the Schools away from Bombay to the cooler and healthier Deccan Plateau. In 1925 Barnes High School, named after the Venerable Archdeacon George Barnes, founder of the Bombay Education Society, was opened at Devlali. Much of the School land at Bycullah was sold . Christ Church School, Bycullah, with the parish church there, stand on part of the land given originally to the B.E.S. More details are in [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304090830/http://home.the-wire.com/~raga/bhs.html David King’s webpage] , now archived, about Barnes High School, Devlali.*[httphttps://wwwen.bdtapvtltdwikipedia.org/christ.htm wiki/Christ_Church,_Byculla Christ Church Byculla]Wikipedia**FamilySearch catalogue entry [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1131062?availability=Family%20History%20Library microfilm number 1989672] Parish registers (baptisms, marriages), Church of North India, Christ Church, Byculla, Archdeaconry of Bombay, 1862-1996 ([[. These records are viewable on your home computer, provided you are signed in to FamilySearch Centres#Ordering microfilms|Ordering microfilms]]).