| Description | AET/H/1 Trustee's Minute Book, 1849 - 1889
AET/H/2 Papers relating to the bequest of John Gordon of Murtle, 1815 - 1846
AET/H/3-6 Papers relating to the estate of John Carnegie 1834 - 1835, 1848
AET/H/7 Scheme of Act of Parliament for Aberdeen Orphan Female Asylum , 1849
AET/H/8-14 Papers relating to the establishment of the Hospital, 1849
AET/H/15 Printed Regulations for the Hospital, 1850
AET/H/16 Account Book, 1885 - 1889 |
| Administrative History | Also known as the Aberdeen Destitute Female Orphan Asylum, the Hospital was incorporated by Act of Parliament in 28th July 1849. The Hospital received the majority of its funds from bequests from John Carnegie, a surgeon in the Honorable East India Company Service (HEICS), in 1835 and John Gordon of Murtle, Aberdeenshire, in 1815.
The Hospital's purpose was described to the Endowed Schools & Hospitals Commission as providing for the "moderate and decent maintenance, combined with moral and religious education, of friendless and destitute orphan girls" either from, or with parents or grandparents from, Aberdeen or Aberdeenshire. The girls were admitted between 7 and 10 and left between 14 and 16 years. There were 50 girls residing in the hospital in 1873, and they received training to prepare them for domestic service. The Hospital was located in Huntly Street in premises shared with the Blind Asylum - the layout of the building can be seen in the Ordnance Survey Large Scale Town Plan of Aberdeen from 1866-67.
In 1888 the Hospital for Orphan and Destitute Female Children was amalgamated into the Aberdeen Educational Trust, and under the terms of the Trust's Scheme of Administration the Hospital closed within a year, with residents transferred to the Female Orphan Asylum in September 1889 (see AET/AFOA). |