Cunningham Deaconness and Orphans' Home, Champaign County, Illinois, 1900

Cunningham Deaconness
and Orphans' Home


Urbana Township
Champaign County, Illinois, A.D. 1900*


 1  Reeves Matilda    Head    W F June 1864 35 S - - - Ind  Ind  Ind   - - -  Matron       0 - y y y - - H -
 2  Leighton Ca??ie*  Servant W F May  1868 32 S - - - Iowa Ohio Ohio  - - -  Teacher      0 - y y y - - - -  
 3  Thom* Frederick   Servant W M Aug  1866 33 M 8 - - Eng  Eng  Eng   - - Al Farm laborer 0 - y y y - - - -  
 4  Thom*  Mary       Servant W F Oct  1877 22 M 8 0 - Ill  Ind  Ind   - - -  Laundress    0 - y y y - - - -
 5  Thompson Hattie   Servant W F June 1876 24 S - - - Ill  Ill  Ill   - - -  Cook         0 - y y y - - - -
 6  Cooney Edith      Inmate  W F Not Known 17 S - - - Ill  Not  Known - - -  Inmate       - 3 y y y - - - -
 7  Brown Nellie      Inmate  W F  *     *  17 S - - - Ill  *    *     - - -  Inmate       - 9 y y y - - - -
 8  Cooney Alice      Inmate  W F  *     *  13 S - - - Ill  *    *     - - -  Inmate       - 3 y y y - - - -  
 9  Smith Grace       Inmate  W F  *     *  13 S - - - Ill  *    *     - - -  Inmate       - 8 y y y - - - -
10  Wadkins Hattie    Inmate  W F  *     *  13 S - - - Ill  *    *     - - -  Inmate       - 8 y y y - - - -
11  Wilgus Eva        Inmate  W F  *     *  10 S - - - Ill  *    *     - - -  Inmate       - 8 y y y - - - -
12  Kirby Oval        Inmate  W M  *     *  10 S - - - Ill  *    *     - - -  Inmate       - 8 y y y - - - -
13  Pauk Alice        Inmate  W F  *     *   9 S - - - Ill  *    *     - - -  Inmate       - 9 - - - - - - -
14  Pauk Ethel        Inmate  W F  *     *   8 S - - - Ill  *    *     - - -  Inmate       - 8 - - - - - - -
15  Sigmund Bessie    Inmate  W F  *     *   8 S - - - Ill  *    *     - - -  Inmate       - 8 - - - - - - -
16  Cooney  Nettie    Inmate  W F  *     *   7 S - - - Ill  *    *     - - -  Inmate       - 3 - - - - - - -
17  Hughes Wamer*     Inmate  W M  *     *   7 S - - - Ill  *    *     - - -  Inmate       - 8 - - - - - - -
18  Sigmund Herman    Inmate  W M  *     *   6 S - - - Ill  *    *     - - -  Inmate       - - - - - - - - -
19  Pauk Nellie       Inmate  W F  *     *   5 S - - - Ill  *    *     - - -  Inmate       - - - - - - - - -
20  Brown Julius      Inmate  W M  *     *   5 S - - - Ill  *    *     - - -  Inmate       - - - - - - - - -
21  Sigmund  Arthur   Inmate  W M  *     *   4 S - - - Ill  *    *     - - -  Inmate       - - - - - - - - -
22  Gh??st Harrington Inmate  W M  *     *   2 S - - - Ill  *    *     - - -  Inmate       - - - - - - - - -
23  Thompson Ad??ia   Inmate  W F  *     *   2 S - - - Ill  *    *     - - -  Inmate       - - - - - - - - -
                    Here ends the enumeration of the above mentioned institute



** Transciber's Notes **

Please Note: Columns for birth year, birth month, parental nativity,
where * marks have been provided above, are all noted in the original census
as "Not Known".

The columns above represent name, relation, color or race, sex, month of 
birth, year of birth, age, marital status, years married, mother of how
many children, number of children still living, place of birth of this
person, place of birth of father of this person, place of birth of mother
of this person, year of immigration to the United States, years in the
United States, naturalization, occupation, months not employed, attended
school (in months), can read, can write, can speak English, ownership of
home (own or rent; owned free or mortgaged, farm or house, number of farm
schedule).

No columns were omitted for the transcription above.

Transcriber used the abbreviations Ind for Indiana, Ill for Illinois,
Eng for England, and Y for Yes


Address of Orphanage: Not given in this census.  Other: Dwelling #23, Family
#23.   
This census was taken on the 1st day of June 1900, by W R Courtney, 
Enumerator. [Transcriber's Note: The signature on the census page for this
orphanage has only "W" on the Enumerator's signature line.  Sheet 12A was
signed by "W R Courtney" and is assumed here to be the Enumerator for 
the above institution as well. Sheet 12B is completely blank.]


   2  Given name looks like "Canie", might be Carrie
   3-4  Surname looks like "Thom", might be Thorn.  
   7  Last name is hard to read, could possibly be Bo??, Borson (??) or
      something similar.
   7-22  In columns marked with *, "Not Known" is written sideways
         across all in the original document. 
  17  Might be Warner
  22  Could be Gharst, Ghorst, or something similar.
  23  Given name is hard to read; looks like Adenia, Adevia, or something 
      similar.


CITATION

Ancestry.com, On-line Census Images.
1900 U.S. Federal Census, Illinois
Champaign County, Urbana Township
SD 7, ED 31, Sheet 13A; Image 25 of 28
Img Ref# 383/Roll: T623 241.

This list was Transcribed by
Beth Graham Aycock
21 June 2002
for The Orphans' Home Website

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