California Orphans and Orphanages

1900 Census
This is the most complete source on the internet of orphans in the 1900 census in California. It also covers adults connected with the orphanages.

1900 Census Fields


 * Name, relation, color, gender
 * Birth month, year, age
 * Marital status, years married
 * Mother of how many children, number of children living
 * Birth place, birth place of father, birthplace of mother
 * Year of immigration, number of years in the U.S., naturalization status
 * Occupation, months unemployed
 * Months at school, literacy (read, write, speak English)
 * Additional questions

Additional entries can be found at this RootsWeb link

Partial listing of 1900-1930 California Orphanages

 * Alameda Sanatorium (Alameda County)
 * Bird's Nest Orphanage (Alameda County)
 * Boys and Girls Aid Society of Los Angeles County (Los Angeles County)
 * Fred Finch Orphanage (also known as the Fred Finch Children's Home ) in Oakland, CA
 * Fresno County Orphanage (Fresno County)
 * Golden Gate Orphanage (Alameda County)
 * Good Templar Home for Orphans (Solano County)
 * Grass Valley Orphan Asylum (Nevada County)
 * Home of the Guardian Angel Orphanage (Los Angeles County)
 * I.O.O.F. Orphans' Home (Santa Clara County)
 * Industrial Home Society - renamed McKinley Children's Home
 * Josephonium Orphan Asylum (Alameda County)
 * Ladies' Relief Society's Home for Aged Women; Ladies' Relief Society's Orphanage (Alameda County)
 * Los Angeles Orphan Asylum (Los Angeles County)
 * Los Angeles Orphans Home (Los Angeles County)
 * The Maria Kipp Orphanage 1900 census (partial) listing here
 * Masonic Widow's and Orphan's Home (Alameda County)
 * McKinley Orphanage, 3841 19th Street, San Francisco.  Opened circa 1897
 * 1900 Census (San Francisco Methodist Orphanage)
 * 1910 Census (McKinley Orphanage and Youth's Directory)
 * 1920 Census (McKinley Orphanage)
 * 1930 Census (McKinley Orphanage)


 * McKinley Children's Home, Origionally the Industrial Home Society (San Francisco County)
 * Notre Dame Institute (Santa Clara County)
 * Orphans' Home (San Bernardino County)
 * Pacific Hebrew Orphan Asylum and Home Society (San Francisco County)
 * Protestant Orphan Asylum (Sacramento County)
 * Protestant Orphan Asylum (San Francisco County)
 * Sacramento Foundlings Home (Sacramento County)
 * San Francisco Boys Home (San Francisco County)
 * San Francisco Children's Orphanage (San Francisco County)
 * San Francisco Lying In Hospital and Foundling Asylum (San Francisco County)
 * St. Catherine's Orphan Asylum (San Bernardino County)
 * St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum (Marin County)
 * Sunshine Home Orphanage (Alameda County )
 * West Oakland Foundling Home ( Alameda County )
 * Women and Child's Home (San Diego County)
 * Youth's Directory (San Francisco County)