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Upper Orphan School
*[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 online [https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-continuation-or-supp_east-india-company-army_1799_2/page/n531/mode/2up at Archive.org] (added 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. 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]]
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