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Organisation Tufnell Home

Categories
Anglican, Care Provider, Children's Home and Protestant

Summary

[Taken from Queensland guide, Missing Pieces, p.91]

Tufnell Home, 230 Buckland Road, Nundah. Operated by the Society of the Sacred Advent and the Corporation of the Synod of the Diocese of Brisbane. Home of the Good Shepherd operated from Eton House, Nundah from approx 1893 - and Ormiston House at Ormiston from 1897 (present location in Buckland Road, Nundah purchased 1900) - to train orphanage girls aged 12 to 13 for domestic work.
Home of the Good Shepherd formally opened July 1893.
Expanded to receive 'private payment orphans' 1894.
Training home opened as a 'branch orphanage' at Ormiston for State girls - private children remained at Nundah 1897.
The Tufnell Home formally opened 6 February 1901. Practice of sending girls for training ceased as age for employment was raised to 13 years 1914.
Licensed under The lnfant Life Protection Act 6 February 1936.
Licensed under The State Children Act 4 November 1938.

Licensed under The Children's Services Act 4 August 1966.
First family group units officially opened 31 August 1969.
Funding ceased 1989/90.

Services relocated to Tufnell Residential And Community Care (TRACC) 1990.

Details

The Diocese of Brisbane (Anglican Church of Australia) has advised that the following records exist in relation to Tuffnell Home, Nundah:

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Publications

Books

  • Boyce, James, For the Record: Background information on the work of the Anglican Church with Aboriginal Children and Directory of Anglican Agencies providing residential care to children from 1830 to 1980, Anglicare Australia, Melbourne, 2003, 46 pp. p.30. Details

Online Resources

Sources used to compile this entry: Boyce, James, For the Record: Background information on the work of the Anglican Church with Aboriginal Children and Directory of Anglican Agencies providing residential care to children from 1830 to 1980, Anglicare Australia, Melbourne, 2003, 46 pp. p.30.; Department of Families, 'p.91', Missing pieces: information to assist former residents of children's institutions to access records, State of Queensland, 2001, http://www.communities.qld.gov.au/resources/childsafety/foster-care/missing-pieces.pdf.

Prepared by: Rosemary Francis

Created: 28 June 2011, Last modified: 4 May 2012