Institutional Care

Children's homes, orphanages, mission and boarding schools, workhouses, borstals, monasteries, convents, hospitals, etc. (excluding short term pre-adoption care.

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Adler-Collins, Je Kan, African Children's Choir, Ahbez, Eden, Akabusi, Kriss, Armstrong, Louis Daniel, Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children, Baca, Jimmy Santiago, Bálint, Lea, Bijani, Laden & Laleh, Bird, A. John, Björk, Carl Axel, Blackburn, Tom (see Deacon, Joseph John), Bokassa I, Brady, John Green, Braimoh, Dilly, Burke, Andrew Horace, Burnum, Burnum, Campbell, Alistair Te Ariki, Campbell, Ben Nighthorse, Catches, Peter, Cerullo, Morris, Chanel, Gabrielle Bonheur, Chaplin, Charles Spencer, Chaplin, Sydney, Child Migrants, Choi Yong Sul, Church, John, Clare, Monica, Cosmas Melodus, Dahlberg, Edward, Dalai Lamas, Dante Alighieri, Day, Sabrina Sidney (see Hannibal, Abram Petrovich), Deacon, Joseph John, Dodson, Michael, Dodson, Patrick, Douglas, Catherine, Dowd, Donny, Evans, Barry, Farragut, David Glasgow, Fashanu, John, Fashanu, Justinius Sonny, Fever, Fred, Field, Shirley Ann, Finch, Peter, Fisher, Antwone, Fitzgerald, Ella, Forman, Miloš, Foundlings, Frampton, Phil, Friedlander, Marti, Geisha, Genet, Jean, Gertrude the Great, Gill, Madge, Glazer, Tom, Goldie, Grant, Julia, Gökçen, Sabiha, Head, Bessie, Heiric of Auxerre, Hildegard of Bingen, Hill, David, Hurston, Zora Neale, Isidore of Seville, Ivan VI, James, Lennie, Jameson, Derek, Janissaries, Juliana of Liège, Kinder der Landstraße, Kindertransport, Kipling, J. Rudyard, Klein, Hans-Joachim, Kujau, Konrad, Lee, George Patrick, Leonowens, Anna, Lewis, Monsignor (Dilwyn John) David, Li Lu, Macarthur, Wally, Martinson, Harry Edmund, Mary the Virgin, McCarthy, Thaddeus, McDaid, Desmond, McKenzie, Richard B., McQueen, Steve, Memminger, Christopher Gustavus, Mici Plwm, Mills, Billy, Monaghan, Thomas, Monroe, Marilyn, Morcom, Luke Sidney, Moriarty, John, Morley, Eric Douglas, Morrissey, Neil, Mortara, Edgardo, Murray, Andrew Buist, Native American and Alaskan Native Children, Nazi Germany, Niyazov, Saparmurat Ataevich, Oblates, Oldfield, Bruce, Omahuru, Ngatau, Pàscoli, Giovanni, Perkins, Charles, Pidgley, Tony, Reynolds, George, Roach, Archie, Roberts, Ernie (see Deacon, Joseph John), Ruth, George Herman ("Babe"), Salter, Shane, Samuel, Schreiber, Lorna, Scully, Julia, Senser, Joe, Shakers, Shoah, Sissay, Lemn, Skanudharova, Stanhope, Albert, Stanley, Henry Morton, Templer, James, Terupe, Tui, Thomas, Leslie John, Transportees, Traynor, Joanna, Tyson, Mike G., Ward, Glenyse, Westheimer, Ruth Siegel, Whitbread, Fatima, Wiesel, Eliezer, Wilkins, George, Wilkomirski, Binjamin, Wilson, Flip, Wright, Richard Nathaniel, X, Malcolm, Zvi, Sarah, Zweig, Stefan Jerzy,

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Björk, Carl Axel

Björk was the child of an unmarried seamstress in Stockholm and an unknown man. When his mother died he was four years old and went to live in an orphanage for two and a half years before b... [more]

Blackburn, Tom (see Deacon, Joseph John)

Deacon was born with severe cerebral palsy of the entire body. His mother died when he was six and he went to live with his grandmother. When he was eight, after a number of operations, he ... [more]

Bokassa I

Jean-Bédel Bokassa was born to a married couple, and his father was a chief. His father was murdered by the French colonial occupiers when he was six, and his mother committed suicide a wee... [more]

Brady, John Green

Brady was born in New York. His mother died when he was very young. His father remarried, but Brady seems to have been unhappy with his step-mother, and he ran away from home when he was ei... [more]

Braimoh, Dilly

Braimoh was born to a white Jewish mother and a Nigerian father. He never knew his mother, had only slight contact with his father, and was raised in a children's home in Surrey. He present... [more]

Burke, Andrew Horace

Burke was born in New York and his mother died in childbirth. He was orphaned at the age of four and became a ward of the Children's Aid Society, which sent him on an Orphan Train to Nobles... [more]

Burnum, Burnum

Burnum was born Harry Penrith (he took an Aboriginal name after his great grandfather in 1976) into a nomadic Aboriginal family at Wallaga Lake, New South Wales. When his mother died soon a... [more]

Campbell, Alistair Te Ariki

Campbell was born in the Cook Islands in the South Pacific and is part Cook Island Maori. Orphaned as a young child, he was sent to Dunedin, NZ, and raised there in an orphanage from 1933, ... [more]

Campbell, Ben Nighthorse

Campbell is part Portuguese, Northern Cheyenne (and has been inducted into their council of chiefs) and possibly also Apache and Pueblo, a rancher and horse trainer, jewellery designer, jud... [more]

Catches, Peter

Catches was orphaned and then raised in a Catholic mission school. When he left the mission he gradually became involved in traditional Lakota beliefs, reducing his Catholic commitment as t... [more]