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The Freedmen's Bureau Online

Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Louisiana
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869.
National Archives Microfilm Publication M1027, Roll 33
"Reports Relating to the Condition of Freedmen."


Report of Indigent and Destitute Whites and Freed People in the Parish of Orleans L. B. State of Louisiana, applying for relief, from the 10th day of March 1868 to the 10th day of April 1868.

NAME

AGE

SEX

Children under 14

Causes of Destitution

Date when reported to A. S. A. C.

Remarks
which will contain the reason why the Parish Authorities fail to provide for their own destitute

Ellen Partley 61 Female 3 Crippled unable to work March 2, 1868 There is no
Ellen Hays 43 Female 3 Sick & unable to work March 2, 1868 appropriation
Catharine Peyley 76 Female - Old & unable to work March 2, 1868 by the city
Mary Galner 59 Female - Crippled & unable to work March 2, 1868 authorities for
Mary Vanken 40 Female 2 Sick & death of husband March 2, 1868 those cases --
M. McMahon 80 Female - Old & unable to work March 2, 1868 they are
Julia O'Brien 37 Female 1 Sick & destitute March 3, 1868 without means.
Julia Cobham 49 Female - Sick & destitute March 3, 1868
Mary Fahey 54 Female - Cripled & unable to work March 3, 1868
Cipress Loura 54 Female - Sick & unable to work March 3, 1868
Catharine McKenna 73 Female - Sick & unable to work March 3, 1868
Mary Mason 50 Female 4 Sick & destitute March 3, 1868
Mary Evans 47 Female 3 Crippled & destitute March 3, 1868
Johanna Madden 29 Female 3 Death of husband and sick children March 3, 1868
Mary Stewart 70 Female - Old & crippled March 3, 1868
Sarah Harrison 64 Female - Old & unable to work March 3, 1868
Maria Kelly 72 Female - Old & unable to work March 4, 1868
Bridget Fallon 41 Female 6 Sickness & death of husband March 4, 1868
Catherine Farrell 50 Female 2 Sick unable to work March 4, 1868
Cecelia Brady 43 Female 5 Sick & unable to work March 4, 1868
Ann Dabon 38 Female 3 Sickness & death of husband March 4, 1868
Mary White 50 Female 1 Sick & unable to work March 4, 1868
Ann Burns 69 Female - Old & unable to work March 4, 1868
Mary Armstrong 33 Female 1 Sick & unable to work March 5, 1868
Catharine Bradford 42 Female 3 Sick & unable to work March 5, 1868
Jane Callahan 46 Female 2 Sick & unable to work March 5, 1868
Catharine Cloman 39 Female 3 Sick & unable to work March 5, 1868
John Timmons 49 Male 3 Sick & unable to work March 5, 1868
Mary Knopps 40 Female 3 Sick & unable to work March 5, 1868
Margareta H. Carthy 45 Female 3 Sick & unable to work March 5, 1868
Elize John 70 Female - Old & blind March 5, 1868
Mary Wheylam 41 Female 3 Sick & unable to work March 5, 1868
Margareth Dunn 72 Female - Old & unable to work March 6, 1868
Sarah Stokely 52 Female 1 Old & sickness March 6, 1868
Margareth Dolen 74 Female - Old & sickness March 6, 1868
M. Bruthona 49 Female 1 Sick & destitute March 6, 1868
Mary Swift 68 Female - Old & unable to work March 6, 1868
Carolina Mollena 70 Female - Old & crippled March 6, 1868
Ariel Collins 96 Female - Old & unable to work March 6, 1868
Nina Lenard 47 Female 2 Sick & destitute March 6, 1868
Julia Shelley 40 Female 3 Husband being sick 2 years March 6, 1868
Margareth Coleman 75 Female - Old & crippled March 6, 1868
Veronica Young 50 Female 3 Sick & destitute March 7, 1868
Margareth Rischalt 43 Female 2 Sick & destitute March 7, 1868
Margareth Quinn 70 Female - Old & destitute March 7, 1868
Ann Sullivan 60 Female - Old & destitute March 7, 1868
Mary Spelle 40 Female 1 Sick & destitute March 7, 1868
Margareth Murphy 51 Female - Old & crippled March 7, 1868
Ellen Doaling 60 Female - Old & crippled March 7, 1868
Thomas Clay 57 Male - Crippled & unable to work March 7, 1868
Julia Harington 68 Female - Old & crippled March 7, 1868
Maria Sherrer 60 Female - Old & crippled March 7, 1868
Margareth Montgomery 64 Female - Old & crippled March 7, 1868
Benjamin Miller 70 Male - Old & unable to work March 7, 1868
Mary Kelsten 63 Female - Old & unable to work March 9, 1868
Bridget Lennen 58 Female - Old & unable to work March 9, 1868
Bridget Carroll 40 Female 2 Death of her husband & sickness March 9, 1868
Catharine Masterson 51 Female 2 Sick & destitute March 9, 1868
Bridget Burns 40 Female 1 Sick & destitute March 9, 1868
Ann Gallagher 60 Female 1 Sick & destitute March 10, 1868
Kate Shehan 30 Female 2 Sick & destitute March 10, 1868
Anna Smith 57 Female 7 Sick & destitute March 10, 1868
Hannah Cavanaugh 43 Female 3 Sick & destitute March 10, 1868
Mary Finnegan 39 Female 4 Death of husband & unable to work March 10, 1868
Anne Brivor 42 Female 3 Sick & unable to work March 10, 1868
Bridget Deandorf 50 Female - Crippled & unable to work March 10, 1868
Julia Gender 32 Female 3 Sick & destitute March 10, 1868