Unnamed Orphans' Home, Shelby County, Illinois, 1900
Unnamed Orphans' Home
3rd Ward, Shelbyville City
Shelby County, Illinois, A.D. 1900*
1 Willeet* Anna Superintendant W F Oct 1835 64 Wd - 0 0 Mass Newham Scotland Mass - - - Superintendant of Home - - Yes Yes Yes R - H -
2 Baso* Minnie Matron W F Oct 1869 30 S - 0 0 Ill Ohio Ind - - - Matron - - Yes Yes Yes - - - -
3 Baso* Stella Asst Matron W F Nov 1874 25 S - 0 0 Ill Ohio Ind - - - Asst Matron - - Yes Yes Yes - - - -
4 Tunis Harry In Home W M Jun 1883 16 S - - - ** Un Un - - - - - - Yes Yes Yes - - - -
5 Walton Maryetta In Home W F *** 1887 13 S - 0 0 Un Un Un - - - School - 9 Yes Yes Yes - - - -
6 Trisca* Charles In Home W M Un 1890 10 S - - - Ill Ill Ill - - - School - 9 Yes Yes Yes - - - -
7 Scarborough Levi In Home W M Un Un 9 S - - - Ill Ill Ill - - - - - 0 - - - - - - -
8 Triece Carrie In Home W F Un 1894 6 S - 0 0 Ill Ill Ill - - - - - 0 - - - - - - -
9 Frederick Blain In Home W F Un 1894 6 S - - - Ill Ill Ill - - - - - 0 - - - - - - -
10 Johnson *** In Home W F Un 1895 5 S - 0 0 Ill Ill Ill - - - - - 0 - - - - - - -
11 Johnson Nora In Home W F Un 1897 3 S - 0 0 Ill Ill Ill - - - - - 0 - - - - - - -
** Transcriber's Notes **
Columns above represent name, relation, color, gender, birth month, birth
year, age, marital status, years married, number of children, number of
living children, birth place, father's birth place, mother's birth place,
year of immigration, years in United States, occupation,
months unemployed, months at school, can read, can write, can speak English,
home owned or rented, home owned free or mortgaged, home or farm, number of
farm schedule.
No columns were omitted for the transcription above.
Transcriber abbreviated Massachusetts as Mass, Illinois as Ill, "unknown" as
"Un", and Indiana as Ind.
Address of Orphanage: South 4th Street (house number not given).
This census was taken on on the 6th day of June, 1900, by Charles S Woodward,
Enumerator.
1 Might be Willert, Willest, ....
2-3 Final letter/two letters are hard to read. Surname might be Bar/Barr,
Baro, ....
4 Unable to read birthplace
5 Unable to read birth month
6 Might be Triece, Treice, Treece, or something similar to any of these.
10 Unable to read given name due to overwriting. Seems to contain three
letters and begin with F, G, or possibly C.
CITATION
Ancestry.com, On-line Census Images.
1900 U.S. Federal Census, Illinois
Shelby County, 3rd Ward, Shelbyville City
Shelbyville Township
SD 12, ED 124, Sheet 5B; Image 10 of 41
Img Ref# 480/Roll: T623 345.
This list was Donated by
Susan Turner
and Transcribed by
Janet E. Truncali
12 May 2002
for The Orphans' Home Website