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Children of Orphan trains from Ny to Illinois will do lookups

Re: Children of Orphan trains from Ny to Illinois will do lookups

Posted: 23 Feb 2014 3:17AM GMT
Classification: Query
My grandfather was an orphan train rider and was placed with a family in Highland, WI between 1884 and 1900. Judging by the 1910 federal census, there appears to be about six others placed with families in the Highland area, all born in New York between 1882 and 1884. What area of WI are you interested in?

Re: Looking for David ORR (b. abt. 1879? NY?)

Posted: 21 Jan 2015 12:06AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Orr
Hi,
I know this an old post but I am hoping that you will see this. My gg-grandmother Frances Orr (Bierwiler) was born in New York City in 1869. She had two brothers, David (b.1871) and William (b.1872), and one sister Isabella (b.1879). After their father David died in 1881, their mother Mary was not able to take care of them, The girls were put into the care of the American Female Guardian Society and the boys were sent to the Soldier and Sailors home. David ran away from that home but eventually ended up in the NY Juvenile Asylum in 1884. It is at this point that I cannot find any further information on the whereabouts of my gg-grandmothers siblings. I was thinking that perhaps the boys had been sent out west on the Orphan train , which is how I came across your post. I know its a long shot but maybe there is a connection here. I was wondering if you happened upon any further information on your David Orr?

Thanks!
Dana

Re: Children of Orphan trains from Ny to Illinois will do lookups

Posted: 31 Jan 2015 1:56PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Boyce
I am becoming very convinced that my great grandfather arrived in Iowa on an orphan train. I am reasonable sure of his birthdate in August 1873. and thet his parents were from England and Ireland. He appears in census data in the home of Frank and Lizzie Boyce in the 1880's but there is no other record of him until his marriage in Wyoming in 1899. His name is Frederick Sylvester.Boyce, although Boyce would not be his real surname. It is a needle in a haystack for sure......
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