Orphans' Home, San Bernardino County, California, 1900
Orphans' Home
4th Ward, San Bernardino City
San Bernardino County, California, A.D. 1900*
1 Ledwith Kathy Head W F Feb 1854* 55 Wd - - - Mssri NewH* Ver - - - Sup Orph House 0 - Yes Yes Yes R - H -
2 Ruthford Kathy Nurse W F Dec 1877 22 S 0 - - Cal Ark Ohio - - - Nurse 2 - Yes Yes Yes - - - -
3 Edenburg Viola Boarder B F Feb 1887 13 S 0 - - Cal Un Un - - - At School - 6 Yes Yes Yes - - - -
4 Edenburg Effie Boarder B F Jun 1889 10 S 0 - - Cal Un Un - - - At School - 6 Yes Yes Yes - - - -
5 Edenburg Josephine Boarder B F Mar 1892 8 S 0 - - Cal Un Un - - - At School - 6 - - - - - - -
6 Edenburg Alberta Boarder B F Oct 1894 5 S 0 - - Cal Un Un - - - - - - - - - - - - -
7 Smith Howard Boarder W M Jan 188? 11 S 0 - - Cal Un Un - - - At School - 6 - - - - - - -
8 Smith Charles Boarder W M Apr 1892 7* S 0 - - Cal Un Un - - - - - - - - - - - - -
9 Druser* Arthur Boarder W M Apr 1893 7 S 0 - - Cal Un Un - - - - - - - - - - - - -
10 Henshaw Mable* Boarder W F Jan 1891 8 S 0 - - Cal Un Un - - - - - - - - - - - - -
11 Henshaw Gladys Boarder W F Nov 1893 7 S 0 - - Cal Un Un - - - - - - - - - - - - -
12 Buckley Cornelius Boarder W M Feb 1890 10 S 0 - - Cal Un Un - - - At School - 6 Yes Yes Yes - - - -
13 Buckley Thomas Boarder W M Sep 1894 5 S 0 - - Cal - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
14 Campbell Harold Boarder W M Jun 1891 8 S 0 - - Cal - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
15 Allen Vernon Boarder W M Aug 1894* 3* S 0 - - Cal - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
16 Allen Hazel Boarder W F Mar 1896 4 S 0 - - Cal - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
17 Martinez Antonio Boarder W M May 1893* 10 S 0 - - Cal - - - - - - - - No No No - - - -
** Transcribers Notes **
Please Note: The birth month, year, and age for each person is given above
as they appear in the original census; a number of them do not match up
given the date of the enumeration.
Columns above represent Name; Relationship; Race; Sex; Month and year of
birth; Age; Martial Status; number of years married; number of children born;
number of children still living; Birthplace of this person; Birthplace of
the father of this person; Birthplace of the mother of this person; Year of
immigration; number of years living in the United States; Naturalization;
Occupation; Weeks not employed in the past year; Attending school (months);
Can read; Can Write; Can speak English; Own or rent; owned free or mortgaged,
Farm or house; number of farm schedule.
No Columns were omitted for this transcription.
Transcriber abbreviated Missouri as Mssri, New Hampshire as NewH, Vermont as
Ver, California as Cal, Arkansas as Ark, and Unknown as Un.
Address of Orphanage is hard to read; looks like "444 Basetune" (??)
This census was taken on the 6th day of June, 1900, by Ernest Meroyfield,
Enumerator.
1 Birth year given for this person looks like 1854; age looks like 55.
7 Birth year looks like 1888 but might be 1889
8 Age looks like 7 but might be 8.
9 Might be Douser
10 First name difficult to read; might be Marta (?).
15 Year of birth looks like 1894, age looks like 6 but there is a line
through it and a "3" is written above.
17 Year of birth looks like 1893 (might be 1890), age looks like 10.
CITATION
Ancestry.com, On-line Census Images.
1900 U.S. Federal Census, California
San Bernardino County, San Bernardino Township
4th Ward, San Bernardino City
SD 6, ED 227, Sheets 5B-6A; Images 22-23 of 24
Img Ref#: 398-399/Roll: T623 97.
This list was Donated by
Susan Turner
and Transcribed by
Janet Truncali
May 2002
for the Orphans' Home Website