Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of St. Brigid's Orphanage (1884)

Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of St. Brigid's Orphanage (1884)

1885-01

Sisters of the Holy Faith; St. Brigid's Orphanage

Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of St. Brigid’s Orphanage (1884) (presented at Annual Meeting, January 1885). It is submitted by the ‘Managers’ of St. Brigid’s Orphanage and Schools of the Holy Faith. It describes the work of the orphanage as a mission against Proselytism and describes the activities of proselytisers. The report details the number of orphans; reunification of orphans with parents; orphan adoptions; orphan apprenticeships; the schooling of orphans; and the rearing of orphans. The boarding-out (foster care) system is discussed and premiums paid to nurses (foster parents) is noted. Protocols for religious instruction and education in general is detailed. The report discusses the work of the Holy Faith schools. It notes that the schools were founded ‘to protect the Faith of Catholic children, who were tempted in various ways, but chiefly by poverty, to go to Protestant and Proselytising Schools’. It discusses the lending library, and requests donations of books. A list of benefactors and donations to St. Brigid’s Orphanage and Holy Faith Schools is listed (including clergymen and guild associations). In the appendix is a letter of solicitation for support, donations and subscriptions. Also, in the appendix is a description of assistance of the Sisters of the Holy Faith to the Society of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen Of Charity, in Lower 65 Lower Jervis Street; and an extract of a pamphlet published by his Lordship the Bishop of Southwark and kindly presented to St. Brigid’s Orphanage, titled ‘Practical Direction and Suggestions as to Appointed Testamentary Guardian.’

St. Brigid's Orphanage

46 Eccles Street, Dublin, Ireland

Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland

Orphan statistics

Boarding-out system

Nurses (foster parents)

Education

Holy Faith schools

Sisters of the Holy Faith

Proselytism

Protestant institutions

Finance

Benefactors

Society of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Charity

Aylward, Margaret (1810-1889)

St. Brigid’s Orphanage Annual Reports 1880-1891 (HFA1/O/ES/F/33/SBO-AR-1880-1891)

William Powell (22 Parliament Street, Dublin)

HFA1-O-ES-F-33-SBO-AR28.pdf

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eng

HFA1/O/ES/F/33/SBO-AR28

Sisters of the Holy Faith Congregational Archives, Aylward House, Holy Faith Convent, Glasnevin, Dublin 11

Date of publication is 1885, but report is for yearend 1884

1 report, 39 pages