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→Free Town, Black Town and Civil Orphan Asylums
*This Google Books [http://books.google.com/books?id=AbYBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA224 link], published 1855,refers to the Blck Town Orphan Asylums and says a Free Day School for Boys was established in 1807, which in turn led to the establishment of a Female Asylum in 1815, and a Male Asylum in 1823.
*The Annual report of the Madras Free Schools dated January 1, 1815 stated that the Female Free Orphan Asylum was due to open in April [1815]. The Male Free School had completed its eighth year, and the Female Free School its fifth. [http://books.google.com/books?id=ALyzw0pTNmsC&pg=PA178 Google Books]
*A volume from Google Books contains an incomplete set of Annual Reports for the Civil Orphan Asylums from 1859-1860 until 1876. (Note the Report for 1864-1865 appears to be for the Military Male Orphan Asylum, refer above.) The following facts were advised:
::#The Asylums were never intended for illegitimate children (1876 Report, [http://books.google.com/books?id=PJAIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA15-PA6 page 6]), and
::#The Woolley Fund supported children of destitute Europeans (1876 Report, [http://books.google.com/books?id=PJAIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA15-PA2 page 2])
