Browse Organisations by Location
A
Aberdare
Airds
Albury
Annandale
- Queen Victoria Hospital for Women and Babies (1895 - 1978)
- Deaconess Children's Home and Domestic Training School (1893 - 1914)
Armidale
Arncliffe
- Arncliffe Girls' Home (1941 - 1969)
- Arncliffe Girls' Industrial Home (1916 - 1930)
- 'The Nest' Girls' Home (1941 - 1969)
- Myee (1926 - 1970s)
- Lisgar Hostel (1955 - 1986)
Ashfield
- Robinson Home (1970s)
- Sisters of the Good Shepherd (1863 - )
- Home of the Good Shepherd (1913 - 1969)
- The Infants' Home, Ashfield (1874 - )
- Deaconess Children's Home and Domestic Training School (1893 - 1914)
- Milleewa Home for Boys (1919 - 1966)
- Lisgar Training Home for Domestic Servants (1870 - 1909)
- Charlton Boys' Home, Ashfield (1966 - 1991)
Asquith
Auburn
- Carisbrook (1975 - 1995)
- Temporary Family Care (1978 - )
- King Edward VII Home, Auburn (c. 1910 - c. 1920)
- Dr Dill Macky Memorial Home for Children, Auburn (1911 - 1982)
B
Balmain
- Balmain Industrial School (1910 - 1924)
- Deaconess Children's Home and Domestic Training School (1893 - 1914)
Bathurst
- St Joseph's Orphanage, Bathurst (1867 - 1975)
- Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart (1872 - )
- Bathurst Maternity and Rescue Home (1890s - 1919)
- Hargrave House (1920? - 1940?)
- St Michael's Church of England War Memorial Children's Homes (c. 1954 - 1970?)
Baulkham Hills
- St Michael's Orphanage (1902 - c. 1960)
- St Michael's Boys' Home (1902 - 1960s)
- St Michael's Children's Home (1960? - 1982)
- St Michael's Family Centre (1960s - )
- William Thompson Masonic School (c. 1924 - 1972)
- Orana (1978 - 1990s)
- Masonic Orphan Schools (1922 - c. 1924)
- Thornbury Lodge (1950? - 1990?)
Bellevue Hill
Belmont South
Berry
Bexley
Biloela
Blakehurst
Bomaderry
Bondi
- Scarba Welfare House for Women and Children (1917 - 1920)
- Scarba Welfare House for Children (1920 - 1965)
- Scarba House for Children (1965 - 1986)
Bossley Park
Bowral
Branxton
Broadmeadow
Broken Hill
- St Anne's Home of Compassion (1941 - 1984)
- St Anne's Home (1898 - 1941)
- Algate House (1968 - 1996)
- Broken Hill Shelter (c. 1905 - )
- Bush Church Aid Society (1919 - )
Brooklyn
Burradoo
Burwood
- Church of England Children's Homes, Burwood (1927 - 1993)
- Church of England Orphanage (1893 - 1927)
- Katie Julia Thompson Memorial Home (1968 - 1993)
- Wyatt Lodge (1980s - 1993)
- Burwood Maternity Home (1898 - )
- Iandra Lodge (1975 - ?)
- Sydney Rescue Work Society (1890 - c. 2000)
- Communicare Sydney (c. 2000 - 2011)
- Integricare (2011 - )
- Montrose (1920s - 2000s)
- Cooinoo Home for Children (1924 - 1938)
C
Cabramatta
- St Anne's Children's (Emergency) Centre (1979 - 1985)
- 'Byrnes' Family Group Home (1983 - )
- Male Orphan School (1819 - 1850)
Camden
Campbell's Hill
Campbelltown
Camperdown
Canberra
Carlingford
- Church of England Boys' Home, Carlingford (1917 - 1970s)
- Church of England Girls' Home (1913 - 1970s)
- Havilah Little Children's Home (1918 - 1970s)
- Tress Manning Temporary Care
- Field Cottage
- Dalmar, Wesley Mission (c. 1900 - )
Castle Hill
Chippendale
Concord
Coogee
Cootamundra
Corrimal
Cowper
Cowra (Erambie)
Cronulla
- Church of England Boys' Home, Carlingford (1917 - 1970s)
- Atherstone House (1962 - 1977)
- Cowley House (1946? - 1976)
- Cronulla Children's Home (1916 - 1946?)
- Eleanor MacKinnon Junior Red Cross Home (1945? - 1980?)
Crows Nest
Croydon
- St Anthony's Home Croydon (1925 - )
- St Joseph's Home for Children, Croydon (1926 - 1979)
- Dalmar, Wesley Mission (c. 1900 - )
- Central Mission Home for Neglected Children (1893 - 1900)
- Cicada Home II, Croydon (1919 - 1930s)
- Home for Mothers with Infants, Croydon (1909 - 1911?)
- Cicada Home I, Croydon (1911 - 1919)
D
Dareton
Darlinghurst
- Sydney Foundling Institution (1874 - 1875)
- Home of Hope for Friendless and Fallen Women (1883 - 1904)
- St Margaret's Hospital (1894 - 1998)
- St Margaret's Home for Unwed Mothers (1894 - 1982?)
- Female School of Industry (1827 - 1926)
Double Bay
Drummoyne
Dubbo
Dulwich Hill
- New South Wales Protestant Federation Children's Home (1921 - 1980)
- Dulwich Hill Family Group Home (1989 - 1995)
- Rosemount (1976 - 1981)
Dundas
E
Earlwood
East Maitland
Eastwood
- Crecy Group Home
- Brush Farm House (1820 - )
- Carpentarian Reformatory for Boys (1894 - 1908)
- Brush Farm Home (1922 - 1988)
- Brush Farm Reformatory (1908 - 1912)
- Brush Farm Infants' Home (1968 - 1988)
- Eastwood Home for Mothers and Babies (1915 - 1922)
Edgecliff
Enfield
Engadine
Enmore
Epping
F
Fairfield
Falls Creek
Faulconbridge
Five Dock
Freeman's Reach
G
Garden Island
Girraween
Glebe
- Charlton Boys' Home, Glebe (1942 - 1966)
- Bidura (1920 - 1977)
- Royleston (1922 - 1983)
- Sydney Female Refuge (1880s - 1926)
Glebe Point
Glen Innes
Gore Hill
Gosford
Goulburn
- St Saviour's Neighbourhood Centre Goulburn (1980 - )
- St Saviour's Children's Home (1929 - 1982)
- St Saviour's Cottage Home (1982 - 1986)
- St Joseph's Orphanage (1864 - 1975)
- St John's Home, Goulburn (1905 - 1978)
- St John's Home, Auburn Street (1976 - 1987)
- Gill Memorial Boys' Home (1936 - 1980)
- Gill Memorial Family Group Home (1980 - 1995)
Grafton
- St Joseph's Cowper Children's Homes (1972 - 1993)
- St Joseph's Cowper (1993 - ?)
- St Joseph's Cowper Incorporated (1990? - )
- Rathgar (1941 - 1983)
- Rathmore (1943 - 1948)
- Grafton Shelter (1923? - 1990s)
Granville
Greenthorpe
Guildford
- Faulds House (1976 - 1988)
- Lynwood Hall (1939 - 1993)
- McCredie Cottage (1970 - 1993)
- Guildford Truant School for Boys (1917 - 1939)
H
Haberfield
Hamilton
Hay
Hazelbrook
Homebush
Hornsby
Hunters Hill
Hurlstone Park
I
Illawarra
Ingleburn
Islington
J
Jannali
K
Kariong
- Kariong Juvenile Justice Centre (1999 - 2004)
- Gosford Farm Home for Boys (1912 - 1923)
- Gosford Training School (1923 - 1945)
- Mount Penang Detention Centre (1988 - 1991)
- Mt Penang Juvenile Justice Centre (1991 - 1999)
Katoomba
Kellyville
Kenmore
Killara
Kinchela
Kincumber
Kings Langley
Kogarah
Kurri Kurri
L
Lawson
Leichhardt
Leppington
Leumeah
Leura
Lewisham
- Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia, ISMA (1981 - 2011)
- The Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea, ISMAPNG (2011 - )
Lidcombe
Lismore
Liverpool
- St Anne's Orphanage (1888 - 1977)
- Society for Providing Homes for Neglected Children (1887 - )
- Our Children's Home, Liverpool (1887 - 1936)
- Liverpool Asylum (1851 - 1961)
- St Anne's Group Homes (1960s - 1977)
Lochinvar
M
Manly
- Manly Industrial School and Orphanage (1881 - 1910)
- Young People's Refuge (1976 - )
- Royal Far West (1924 - )
Marayong
Marrickville
- Bethesda Maternity Hospital (1956 - 1973)
- Hopeleigh Maternity Home (c. 1910 - 1956)
- 'The Fold' Girls' Home (1920 - 1942)
- Marrickville Children's Residence (1979 - 1985?)
- Stretch-A-Family Inc (1976 - )
- Lisgar Children's Home (1914 - 1935)
- Corelli (1919 - ?)
Mayfield
- St Elizabeth's Girls Home (1926 - 1977)
- Morpeth Home for Children (1920 - 1964)
- Murray Dwyer Boys' Home (1933 - 1969)
Merewether
Milson Island
Minto
Mittagong
- Mittagong Farm Home for Boys (1906 - 1947)
- Renwick (1976 - 1994)
- Mittagong Training School For Boys (1947 - 1976)
- Waverley Cottage, Mittagong (1940s)
- Mittagong Cottage Homes (1885 - 1976)
Molong
Moore Park
Morisset Park
Morpeth
Mosman
Mulgoa
Murrurundi
Muswellbrook
N
Narellan
Narwee
Newcastle
- Hunter Mission (1992 - )
- Woodlands (1944 - 1981)
- King Edward Home (c. 1930 - 1970?)
- Biloela Industrial School, Cockatoo Island (1867 - 1887)
- Newcastle Industrial School for Females (1867 - 1871)
Newtown
- Newtown Maternity and Rescue Home (1892 - 1898)
- Our Babies Home (1894 - 1904)
- Home of Hope for Friendless and Fallen Women (1883 - 1904)
- Bethesda Home for Waiting Mothers (c. 1904 - c. 1976)
- South Sydney Women's Hospital (1890 - 1976)
- Anglican Deaconess Ministries Ltd (1891 - )
Normanhurst
North Parramatta
- Burnside Presbyterian Orphan Homes (1911 - 1955)
- Burnside Presbyterian Homes for Children (1955 - 1978)
- Burnside Homes for Children (1978 - 1986)
- Burnside (1986 - 2000)
- Blairgowrie (1911 - 1952)
- Cumbrae (1912 - 1987)
- Dunkeld (1913 - )
- Airlie (1914 - 1941)
- Eskdale (1915 - 1980)
- Novar (1916 - 1952)
- Glencoe (1918 - 1949)
- Robertson (1919 - 1976)
- Ivanhoe (1919 - 1984)
- Son of the Rock (1920 - 1979)
- Blackwood (1921 - 1984)
- War Memorial Home (1922 - 1982)
- Reid Home (1922 - 1977)
- Ritchie Home (1928 - 1941)
- Lincluden (1931 - 1988)
- Troup (1933 - 1977)
- Ross (1935 - 1985)
- Christina Campbell Farm Home (1941 - 1952)
- 'Montrose' Family Group Home (1965 - 1986)
- 'Gordon' Family Group Home (1967 - 1986)
- 'Minnamurra' Family Group Home (1975 - 1999)
North Strathfield
North Sydney
- Sisters of Mercy, North Sydney Congregation (1865 - )
- Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart (1872 - )
- Mater Misericordiae Hospital (1906 - 1982)
Nowra
O
Oatley
Orange
Otford
P
Paddington
- Sydney Foundling Hospital (1875 - 1877)
- Royal Hospital for Women (1901 - )
- Ormond House (I), Society for the Relief of Destitute Children (1852 - 1858)
- Ormond House (II), State Children's Relief Department (1884 - 1923)
- Hillside Training Home for Girls (1920 - ?)
- Home for Sick Infants, Paddington (1907 - 1913)
Parramatta
- Kamballa (c. 1974 - 1983)
- Taldree (1974 - 1980)
- Parramatta Girls Industrial School (1887 - 1975)
- Roman Catholic Orphan School (1844 - 1886)
- Female Orphan School (1818 - 1850)
- Protestant Orphan School (1850 - 1886)
- Cottage Home for Feeble-Minded Children, Parramatta (1908 - ?)
- Male Orphan School (1819 - 1850)
Peat Island
Pendle Hill
Pennant Hills
Penrith
Petersham
Phillip Bay
Picton
Q
R
Rabbit Island
Randwick
- Royal Hospital for Women (1901 - )
- Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children (1858 - 1915)
- Glen Mervyn Junior Red Cross Home (1940? - 1980?)
Raymond Terrace
Redfern
Rockdale
Ryde
S
Scheyville
Seaforth
Singleton
South Hurstville
Springwood
St Ives
St Marys
- Buckland Group Home (1978 - )
- St Marys ACS [Aboriginal Children's Service] (1975 - )
- Werrington Park (1954 - ?)
St Peters
Stanmore
- Stanmore Rescue Home (1896 - ?)
- Stanmore Children's Home (1927 - 1987)
- 'The Fold' Girls' Home (1920 - 1942)
Strathfield
- Adelaide Walker Home (c. 1953 - c. 1990)
- Lisgar Children's Home (1914 - 1935)
- Pallister Girls Home, Lisgar Trust (1929 - 1945)
- Dr Dill Macky Memorial Home, Strathfield (1922 - 1983)
Strawberry Hills
Surry Hills
- St Vincent's Boys Home (1891 - 1985)
- Australian Youth and Health Foundation (1985 - )
- Youth Welfare Association of Australia, YWAA (1942 - 1985)
- Sydney Rescue Work Society (1890 - c. 2000)
- Home of Hope for Friendless and Fallen Women (1883 - 1904)
- Open All Night Refuge (c. 1882 - 1950s)
- Metropolitan Boys' Shelter (1911 - 1983)
- Crown Street Women's Hospital (1893 - 1983)
Sussex Inlet
Sydney
- Pitt Street House of the Good Shepherd (1857 - 1901)
- St Magdalen's Refuge Buckingham Street (1903 - 1936)
- Wesley Mission, Sydney (1977 - )
- Central Methodist Mission, Sydney (1885 - 1977)
- Find-A-Family (1975 - )
- Benevolent Society of New South Wales (1813 - )
- Benevolent Asylum (1821 - 1901)
- Thomas Street Asylum (1904 - 1911)
- Renwick Hospital for Infants, Thomas Street (1911 - 1920)
- Young People's Refuge (1976 - )
- Open All Night Refuge (c. 1882 - 1950s)
- Big Brother Movement, Big Brother Movement Youth Support Ltd (1925 - )
- Female School of Industry (1827 - 1926)
T
Tahmoor
Tamworth
Taree
- St Christopher's Home for Little Children (1928 - 1978)
- Great Lakes/Manning ACS [Aboriginal Children's Service] (1975 - )
Telopea
Tempe
The Rocks
Thirlmere
Thornleigh
- Heighway House Project (1960 - 1977?)
- Elsie Cook Cottage (c. 1969 - 1977?)
- Thornleigh Training School for Girls (1946 - 1962)
- Ormond, Thornleigh (1946 - 1998)
Thurgoona
Tighes Hill
Toongabbie
Toronto
Tumbarumba
Turramurra
U
Unanderra
V
Vaucluse
W
Wagga Wagga
- Bungarimbil Adolescent and Family Care Program (c. 1989 - )
- Wagga Wagga ACS [Aboriginal Children's Service] (1975 - )
- Gumleigh (1956 - c. 1990)
- Riverina Juvenile Justice Centre (1984 - )
Wahroonga
Waitara
- Waitara Foundling Home (1898 - 1927)
- Mercy Family Centre, Waitara (1977 - 2001)
- Our Lady of Mercy Home, Waitara (c. 1928 - 1977)
Walcha
Waverley
- Temporary Family Care (1978 - )
- Santa Marina (1919 - ?)
- Sydney Norland Nurseries (1910 - 1920?)
- Sydney Home for Babies (1910 - 1911)
- Isabella Lazarus Home for Jewish Children (1939 - 1967)
Wellington
Wentworth Falls
Werrington
West Maitland
West Ryde
Westmead
Willoughby
Windsor
Wollongbar
Wollongong
Wollstonecraft
Woodford
Woollahra
Woolloomooloo
- Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart (1872 - )
- Central Mission Home for Neglected Children (1893 - 1900)
