Original death certificates, the institution’s child death register and an identified cemetery-lot record are still needed. Search the citywide New Haven index by a known name and then verify institutional residence and burial place in the underlying record.
Evidence, credit & reuse: The citywide index does not identify this orphanage or prove a Saint Bernard burial. Mr. Heaton’s lot cannot yet be assigned to a named cemetery.
Source: SGC New Haven city death-index reference collection; H. M. Packard (1883), p.11
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Silent Grounds Collective, New Haven Orphan Asylum / Children’s Center of Hamden, SGC-NH-006, NH-010, “Individual deaths and the unidentified cemetery lot.” Source: SGC New Haven city death-index reference collection; H. M. Packard (1883), p.11. https://ctcemeterycollective.org/collections/saint-bernard-cemetery?tab=deaths. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-08.