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Kentucky Children’s Home records, 1895-1980 (bulk 1895-1964, 1977-1980 Archive Grid
Appalachian Children’s Home, Barbourville, Kentucky (1949)
Campbell County Protestant Orphans’ Home, Home Avenue, Newport (1884) name later changed to Holly Hill (orphan children) (ages 3 to 18) (M/F)
Children’s Home, 2630 Montgomery Street, Louisville – Church of Christ (Before1910)
Children’s Home and Polytechnic Academy
- Children’s Home and Polytechnic Academy : located at the falls of the Ohio, Louisville, Ky. : a great national charitable institution created for the education of the orphans… (1872)
Children’s Home, Lexington (1889) (illegitimate, abandoned, and neglected children) (M/F)
Cleveland Orphan Institution, Versailles (1875) (0rphans)
Colored Orphans’ Home, 18th and Dumisnil Streets, Louisville – Orphans’ Home Society (1878) (orphans)
Confederate Soldiers’ Home and Widows’ and Orphans’ Asylum
Georgetown, Kentucky, Confederate Soldiers Home and Orphans and Widows Asylum records, 1880-1887 (Worldcat)
Covington Protestant Children’s Home, 1407 Madison Avenue, Covington (1882) (destitute children) (M/F)
German Baptist Orphans’ Home, 923 Cherokee Road, Louisville – Southern German Baptist Churches (1871) (orphan and destitute) (M/F)
German Protestant Orphans’ Home, 1232 Bardstown Road, Louisville (1851) (orphan and destitute children) (M/F)
Highland Orphans’ Home, Clay City – Presbyterian Church in U.S (1908) Orphan children) (M/F)
Home of the Innocents, 106 West Broadway, Louisville – Protestant Episcopal Church (1875) (homeless and indigent children) (M/F)
Kentucky Female Orphan School
Kentucky Home for Colored Children, 807 Sixth Street, Louisville – Kentucky Home Society for Colored Children (1908) (destitute and neglected) (M)
Lexington Orphan Asylum, 5th and Upper Streets, Lexington (1833) (orphans) (M/F)
Louisville Baptist Orphans’ Home, 1022 South First Street, Louisville – Baptist churches of Kentucky (1869) (Baptist orphan children) (M/F)
Louisville Children’s Home Records 1866-1938 (includes commitment papers)
Mary K. Williams Home for Orphan Girls, Washington Street, Frankfort – Ascension Protestant Episcopal Church (1898) (orphans) (F)
Methodist Orphans’ Home, 812 South Fifth Street. Louisville – Methodist Episcopal Church South; (1871) (orphans) (ages 2 1.2 to 13) (M/F)
Orphanage of the Good Shepherd, 1418 Morton Avenue, Louisville – Protestant Episcopal Church (1869) (indigent boys) (ages over 6) (M/F)
Orphans’ Home, 225 East College Street, Louisville – Christian Church Disciples) (1872) (orphans (ages 2 to 12) (M/F)
Presbyterian Orphans’ Home. 1118 South Preston Street, Louisville – Presbyterian Orphans’ Home Society (1855) (dependent children) (M/F)
Protestant Episcopal Orphan Asylum, 211 East College Street, Louisville – Protestant Episcopal Church (1836) (orphans) (M/F)
Receiving Home, 1086 Baxter Avenue, Louisville – Kentucky Children’s Home Society (1895) (dependent, neglected. and homeless children) (M/F)
St. John’s German Orphan Asylum, Horsebranch Road, RD., Covington (1850) St John’s Orphan Society (German orphan children) (M/F)
St. Joseph’s Orphanage, Cold Spring – St Boniface’s Society; Roman Catholic (1877) (ages 2 to 17) (M/F)
St. Joseph’s Orphans’ Home, Frankfort and Bayley Avenues, Louisville (1849) (Catholic orphan and destitute) (M/F)
St. Thomas’ Orphan Asylum, Bardstown – Sisters of Charity of Nazareth (1858) (orphans, destitute children)
St. Vincent’s Orphan Asylum, 2120 Payne Street, Louisville – Sisters of Charity (1832) (orphans and dependent) (F)