A Family's Journey

What happened to the Kelly Children?  They started life in one situation,

and ended up with a different life entirely.

What did they leave behind?   What did they find in their new homes??

                   
They began in New York City, but a very different NY than we know today.

Where did they live?  What was their life like?  The Kellys lived in a tenement, much like the one in the picture below.  Click on the picture to take a tour of  the tenements of that time.

  When Mike got caught stealing, he would have ended up it Tombs Prison.  What would have happened to him there?  Click in the picture to learn about Tombs Prison in the 1800's   The Orphan Train was real.  Click on the link below the picture of the train to visit a web site describing its history.        

Everyone worked, even the kids.  Click on the photos of the girls to the right and the boys below them  to learn about child labor at that time.

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/orphan/