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Orphans & Orphanages information for County Armagh and places above it in the hierarchy

County Armagh

• A Decent Set of Girls: The Irish Famine Orphans of the Thomas Arbuthnot, 1849-1850, by Richard Reid and Cheryl Mongan (Yass, N.S.W.: Yass Heritage Project, 1996)
• Adoption of Irish orphans by Quebec families
• Arnold, M. & Laskey, H., Children of the Poor Clares: The Story of an Irish Orphanage, Appletree, Belfast, 1985
• Barefoot and Pregnant? Irish Famine Orphans in Australia, by Trevor McClaughlin (Melbourne: Genealogical Society of Victoria, 1991)
• Porteus, Robert John Norman, In the name of Jesus: a history of the County Armagh Protestant Orphan Society... , The Author, (Annaghmore), 1986 (QUB)
• Protestant Orphan Society Records, 1828-1973, National Archives of Ireland, Dublin
• The Feisty Colleens: Irish Famine Female Orphans in Pre-Separation Queensland (video), by Ray Debnam (Pelican Waters, Queensland: Ray Debnam, 2009)
• The Golden Bridge: Young Immigrants to Canada, 1833-1839, by Marjorie Kohli (Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, c2003)
• Unnamed Irish Boys on Convict Ships, 1841-1843, sent to Queen's Orphanage, Hobart, Van Dieman's Land (New Town, Tasmania: J. Purtscher, 1993)
• Wages Paid to Orphans Index, 1849-1851, created by Pat Stemp and Aileen Trinder, Archives Office of New South Wales (Rockdale, N.S.W.: Pastkeys, 1996)