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*[https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/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://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=775&s_id=229 FIBIS database: Bengal Military Orphan Society] including
**[http://fibis.ourarchives.online/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 at the online [[British Library]], and also on the [[Subscription websiteshttps://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-continuation-or-supp_east-india-company-online newspapers, journals and directories|subscription websitearmy_1799_2/page/n531/mode/2up at Archive.org]] Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCOadded 2023/09) **[httphttps://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 early twentieth century. In some instances are included reports and other data submitted by the Asylum authorities, including those relating to subscribers to the Bengal Military Orphans' Society and Bengal Military Fund.**[https://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=719&s_id=137 FIBIS database: Bengal Orphan Upper 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/search/catalog/643841 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)
*An advertisement for a teacher at the Upper Orphan School in 1789 may be seen at [[Calcutta schools c late 1700s#Advertisements for teachers|Calcutta schools c late 1700-Advertisements for teachers]]
*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)
*Etching of the Lower Orphan School at Howrah in 1794 from the British Library's [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/other/019pzz000001619u00000000.html Online Gallery]
*[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 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,
published on August 9, 1712, in ''The Spectator'', a London newspaper but appearing in this link in a book about English grammar. The sampler ends with the words ”Anne Jennings wrough this sampler by the directions of Mistress Parker School Mistress in the Orphan School near Calcutta in Bengal East Indias”
*With the foundation of the Bombay Volunteer Rifles in 1877, a Cadet Unit was established at the school, refer [http://www.archive.org/stream/firstannualrepor00indi#page/36/mode/2up ''First Annual Report Of The Bombay Volunteer Rifles For Season 1877-78''], page 36 Archive.org
*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 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]]).
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