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Subject: [NY-IRISH] born NYC, off to ROCKLAND CO., NY
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:02:15 EDT

This is an FYI for any who are researching in Rockland County NY, the area
just north of the Tappan Zee Bridge, that borders Northern New Jersey.

The Rockland County Messenger (1847-1898) published in Haverstraw, NY has
been digitized and is available through the New City Library's homepage:
http://www.newcitylibrary.org/

Rockland County is well known for its psychiatric hospitals, orphanages, and
various other institutions. Consider the aspect of NYC society post US Civil
War, 1870 - 1930+: teaming with immigrants, the ill, orphaned, abandoned,
retarded were in such numbers in NYC, that often religious and charitable
organizations extended their tentacles into Rockland County. For urban youngsters as
well as the ill, the common treatment was to remove them to the fresh air,
sunshine, and "clean living" of "the country"

There are many Irish surnames in census records of these facilities. Some
are still operational, others may not be, but records may yet be obtainable.

"Rockland Children’s Homes and Other Institutions
which may provide information of Genealogical Interest"
The Alms House - Viola - Pomona
Department of Social Services - Pomona
St. Agatha’s Home for Children - Nanuet
Sisters of Charity Convent - (St Agatha’s Home property) -
Nanuet
NY Foundling Hospital - NYC
St. Dominic’s Home - Blauvelt
Motherhouse and Novitiate of the Third Order of St. Dominic - Orangetown
Asylum of Sisters of St. Dominic - Orangetown
St Agnes Convent and Orphanage - Orangetown (Sparkill)
Motherhouse and Novitiate Dominican Convent of Our Lady of the
Rosary -
St. Joseph’s Orphan Asylum - Piermont
House of the Good Shepard - Haverstraw, Stony Point
Home for the Friendless (American Female Guardian Society) - NYC
Woodycrest - Happy Valley - NYC, Bronx, Pomona
Crystal Run Village, Inc. - Pomona
Five Points House of Industry, Happy Valley - NYC - Pomona
The Orphan Trains - NYC
The NY Children’s Aid Society, NYC
Marydell (Novitiate of the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Doctrine) - Upper
Nyack
Christian Herald Camp - Nyack
Lakeside School - Spring Valley
The Edwin Gould Academy - Chestnut Ridge
Letchworth Village - (NYS School for Mental Defectives) - Thiells, Haverstraw
Twp
New York State Orthopedic Hospital for Children [defunct]
Rockland Psychiatric Center (RPC) - Orangeburg
Rockland Children’s Psychiatric Center (RCPC) - Orangeburg
Jawonio, Inc - New City
Camp Venture
Salvation Army Eventide Home (Door of Hope) - Orangetown [defunct]
The Salvation Army - West Nyack
Jewish Convalescent Home - Orangetown [defunct]
For Jewish orphans the best site is: http://www.kesh.com/hnoh/welcome.html
The German Masonic Home - Tappan
St. Vincent De Paul Home for Convalescent Women - Suffern
Reed Home for Convalescents - Clarkstown [defunct]
The Tolstoy Foundation - Valley Cottage
Convent of the Holy Child Jesus - Suffern [defunct]
Eymard Seminary - Suffern
Sisters of Charity Convent - Haverstraw [defunct]
Sisters of Charity Convent - Nyack [defunct]
Camp Bluefields - Blauvelt
Camp Shanks World War II Museum - Orangeburg
Haverstraw Mountain Institute - Haverstraw
Rockland County Female Institute - Orangetown
Dominican College - Blauvelt

DETAILS at: http://rocklandgenealogy.org/childrenshomes.htm




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