Really do need your assistance re: Perkins orphans.
My Grandfather Lawrence,b.1882 and his younger brother Frank.b 1886, were placed in the St Joseph's Orphanage in New Orlean,in either Oct., or Nov.,of 1888...
A birth certificate indicated that their fathers name was Lawrence James Perkins, mother Margaret Kennedy...the existing orphanage records had the father as John Perkins, mothers name unknown...
The parents were believed to have drowned in a boating accident...for a time there was financial support, but the source is unknown. Lawrence remembered a boat ride to the Orphanage in his later years...for a time, they were visited by a man in uniform, they think he had something to do with boats...
I haven't a clue where they came from...if any of you have Perkins relatives who died around that time...or records of the marriage or births etc...I would be extremely grateful.
Thank you
Philip Bourgeois
Louisiana