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Thanks to the great influx of Irish families, charitable institutions for their children proliferated. By the 1860s there were Catholic children’s homes, orphanages and schools in most dioceses. Details are in the Laity’s Directory and its successors, with records in diocesan archives.

Gillow’s A Literary and Biographical History, or Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics (Burns & Oates, 5 vols, 1885–1902).