Hi Cheryl, Here's a brief writeup on the orphanage by Ruby Cusack. http://www.rubycusack.com/issue422.html I managed to get a copy of of the booklet mentioned but there isn't much concerning the children - most of it is on the who the administrators were. The records are held by the Post-Adoption Dept. of the New Brunswick Govt. I would contact them and "beg" especially if you're needing records for someone before the 1900s. They did keep fairly good records. I found that many people used the Orphanage as a place for their children following a death of a spouse. The parent would make a nominal payment each month for their upkeep. They were not all necessarily placed with the Orphanage permanently. The reason the records can't be opened as yet is because it wasn't that long ago that the Orphanage closed and it's a privacy law. Shirley On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Cheryl Tait <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi List > Does anyone know how to access information concerning earliest records from > the Protestant Orphanage in Saint John? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List Announcements can be found at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbcharlo/nblistann.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >