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Glossary Term
A word or term which is defined in the Find & Connect web resource glossary.
Access
Almoner
Archival Collection
Archival Item
Archival Series
Archives
Archivist
Finding Aid
Ministry
Original Birth Certificate
Record
Status offender
UB- (1950s - 1970s)
Government Agency
A Government Agency is an organisation or service provider directly under the control of and funded by a state or federal government.
Aborigines Protection Board (1883 - 1940)
Aborigines Welfare Board (1940 - 1969)
Aborigines Welfare Directorate (1969 - 1975)
Board of National Education (c. 1848 - 1866)
Colonial Secretary (1788 - 1990s), Chief Secretary or Principal Secretary
Council of Education (1866 - 1873)
Denominational School Board (1848 - 1866)
Department of Aboriginal Affairs (1997 - )
Dependent Children Branch (1940s - 1980s)
Director of State Psychiatric Services (1958 - 1973)
Inspector General of Mental Hospitals (1917 - 1958)
Inspector General of the Insane (1876 - 1917)
Montrose (1920s - 2000s)
Special Field Squad (c. 1950 - c. 1983)
State Library of New South Wales (1827 - )
State Records Authority of New South Wales (1961 - )
Government Department
A government department is a group of public servants organised to administer a particular area of government activity, under the control of a minister.
Child Welfare Department (1923 - 1970)
Community Services (II) (2011 - ), Family and Community Services
Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care (2001 - ), DADHC
Department of Child Welfare and Social Welfare (1970 - 1973)
Department of Community Services (1992 - 2009)
Department of Education (1915 - 1990)
Department of Education and Training (1998 - )
Department of Family and Community Services (I) (1988 - 1991)
Department of Health and Community Services (1991 - 1992)
Department of Human Services (2009 - 2011)
Department of Justice and Public Instruction (1873 - 1881)
Department of Juvenile Justice (1990 - )
Department of Public Instruction (1881 - 1915)
Department of School Education (1990 - 1998)
Department of Technical Education (1949 - 1957)
Department of Youth and Community Services [I] (1973 - 1975)
Department of Youth and Community Services [II] (1976 - 1988)
Department of Youth, Ethnic and Community Affairs (1975 - 1976)
Health Commission (1973 - 1982)
NSW Health Department (1982 - )
State Children's Relief Board (1881 - 1923)
State Children's Relief Department (1881 - 1923)
Government-run
An organisation or activity for which a government (usually State, Territory or Federal) is directly responsible.
Allanville Home (c. 1976 - 1990s)
Anglewood (1943 - 1994)
Berry Training Farm (1934 - 1977)
Bidura (1920 - 1977)
Biloela Industrial School, Cockatoo Island (1867 - 1887)
Broken Hill Shelter (c. 1905 - )
Brougham (1943 - 1993)
Brush Farm Home (1922 - 1988)
Brush Farm House (1820 - )
Brush Farm Infants' Home (1968 - 1988)
Brush Farm Reformatory (1908 - 1912)
Castle Hill House (1943 - 1982)
Cicada Home I, Croydon (1911 - 1919)
Cicada Home II, Croydon (1919 - 1930s)
Clairvaux (1970s - 1990s)
Colonial Secretary (1788 - 1990s), Chief Secretary or Principal Secretary
Cootamundra Training Home (1911 - 1969)
Corelli (1919 - ?)
Cottage Home for Feeble-Minded Children, Parramatta (c. 1907 - ?)
Cottage Home for Invalid Children, Parramatta (c. 1907 - )
Daruk (1940s)
Eastwood Home for Mothers and Babies (1915 - 1922)
Endeavour House (1976 - 1990)
Falling Leaves (c. 1950 - c. 1970)
Faulds House (1976 - 1988)
Female Orphan School (1818 - 1850)
Garth (1924 - 1935?)
Gosford Farm Home for Boys (1912 - 1923)
Gosford Training School (1923 - 1945)
Government Agricultural Farm, Scheyville (1905 - 1940)
Grafton Shelter (1923? - 1990s)
Guildford Truant School for Boys (1917 - 1939)
Hargrave House (1920? - 1940?)
Hillside Home for Mothers and Babies (1913 - 1920)
Hillside Training Home for Girls (1920 - ?)
Home for Mothers with Infants, Croydon (1909 - 1911?)
Home for Sick Infants, Paddington (1907 - 1913)
Institution for Boys, Tamworth (1948 - 1976)
Institution for Girls, Hay (1961 - 1974)
Kamballa (c. 1974 - 1983)
Karril Cottage (1980s)
Keelong Remand Centre (1978 - )
Kinchela Training Home for Aboriginal Boys (1923 - 1970)
King Edward Home (c. 1930 - 1970?)
La Perouse Training School for Girls (1928 - 1939)
Lady Edeline Hospital for Sick Babies (1914 - 1936)
Liverpool Asylum (1851 - 1961)
Lynwood Hall (1939 - 1993)
Male Orphan School (1819 - 1850)
Mater Misericordiae Hospital (1906 - 1982)
May Villa (1919 - 1960?)
McCredie Cottage (1970 - 1993)
Methodist Church (1812 - 1885)
Metropolitan Boys' Shelter (1911 - 1983)
Milson Island (1924 - 1973)
Minali Receiving and Assessment Centre (1975? - 1998)
Minda Remand Centre (1966 - 2003)
Mittagong Cottage Homes (1885 - 1976)
Mittagong Farm Home for Boys (1906 - 1947)
Mittagong Training School For Boys (1947 - 1976)
Montrose (1920s - 2000s)
Mount Penang Detention Centre (1988 - 1991)
Mount Penang Training School for Boys (1946 - 1987)
Mt Penang Juvenile Justice Centre (1991 - 1999)
Nautical School Ship 'Vernon' (1867 - 1892)
Newcastle Industrial School for Females (1867 - 1871)
Ormond House (I) (1852 - 1858), Society for the Relief of Destitute Children
Ormond School (1980 - 1984)
Ormond Training School (1962 - 1977)
Ormond, Thornleigh (1946 - 1962)
Parramatta Girls Industrial School (1887 - 1975)
Peat Island (c. 1904 - 2010)
Phillip Cottage (1977 - 1988)
Prince of Wales Hospital (1953 - )
Probationary Farm Home, Branxton (1890s - 1915?)
Probationary Farm Home, Rydalmere (1891 - 1894)
Probationary Farm Home, Toronto (1909 - 1912?)
Protestant Orphan School (1850 - 1886)
Raith Lark Hill Hostel (1964 - 1990?)
Raymond Terrace Home (1913 - 1930?)
Reiby Training School (1973 - )
Renwick (1976 - 1994)
Riverina Welfare Farm for Boys, Yanco (1930s - c. 1945)
Royal Hospital for Women (1901 - )
Royleston (1922 - 1983)
Santa Marina (1919 - ?)
Shaftesbury Home for Babies and Mothers (1914 - 1915)
Shaftesbury Reformatory School (1880 - 1904)
St Heliers (c. 1920 - 1975?)
Taldree (1974 - 1980)
Tallimba Home (1980s)
Thirlmere Babies' Home (1907 - 1913)
Thornbury Lodge (1950? - 1990?)
Thornleigh Training School for Girls (1946 - 1962)
Waverley Cottage, Mittagong (1940s)
Weroona Home (1946 - 1984)
Werrington Park (1954 - ?)
Winbin (1954 - 1990s)
Worimi Shelter (c. 1975 - )
Yarra Bay House (c. 1917 - 1985)
Yasmar Shelter (1946 - 1994)
Yawarra Training School (1969 - 1979)