Bayland Orphan Home Records
Records: 2,462 · Complete: 99%
These records consist of nine volumes, and several loose documents, kept by the Board of Trustees of the Bayland Orphan Home from inception until it closed in 1948. Originally, the Bayland Orphan Home was sited near Morgan's Point on Goose Creek in what is now Baytown, Texas. The children, both boys and girls, were not always orphans in the sense that both parents were dead. Often, children were admitted "on account of the extreme poverty of the applicants."
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"Bayland Orphan Home, Board of Trustees Records, 1867-1948" database with images Fold3 (https://www.fold3.com//title/13/bayland-orphan-home-records: accessed August 12, 2021)
- Publication Title
- Bayland Orphan Home Records
- Total Records
- 2,462 · Complete: 99%
- Content Source
Harris County Archives
- Published on Fold3
- 22 Feb 2008
- Last Updated
- 22 Feb 2008
- Description
- Financial records, correspondence, and other materials document activities of the Board of Trustees of the Bayland Orphan Home from 1867 to 1948.