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New South Wales - Organisation
Sisters of Mercy, North Sydney Congregation (1865 - )
- From
- 1865
- Categories
- Care Provider, Catholic and Religious Order
- Alternative Names
- Mercy Sisters
- North Sydney Sisters of Mercy
- Website
- http://www.nsmercy.org.au
The Sisters of Mercy, North Sydney Congregation, is a Catholic order of nuns established in Sydney 1865. They were responsible for the administration of St Carthage's College for Young Ladies (1907-1931), St Catherine's Home, Brooklyn (1931-1990) and Waitara Foundling Home (later known as Our Lady of Mercy Home from 1898 to 1977. It also ran Mercy Family Life Centre and Mercy Family Centre.
Publications
Newspaper Articles
- 'St Catherine's Home at Brooklyn Closes', Catholic Weekly, 5 September 1990. Details
Reports
- Looking Back: A foundling home at Waitara, Mercy Family Centre Annual Report, Mercy Family Centre, 1984, 4-8 pp. Details
Online Resources
- Institute of Sisters of Mercy in Australia and Papua New Guinea: History, Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea, https://mercy.org.au/stories/beginning-with-catherine-mcauley/. Details
- 'The Cry of the Children: Mr P McGarry Introduces a Deputation: The Chief Secretary's Sympathetic Words', Freeman's Journal (s), 25 November 1915, http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/115595197. Details
- 'History', in The Mater, Mater Hospital, c 2012, https://web.archive.org/web/20130502172545/http://www.materhospital.com.au/culture/history. Details
- Thinee, Kristy and Bradford, Tracy, Connecting Kin: Guide to Records, A guide to help people separated from their families search for their records [completed in 1998], New South Wales Department of Community Services, Sydney, New South Wales, 1998, https://clan.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/connectkin_guide.pdf. Details
Photos
- Title
- Front of Home [Waitara and Our Lady of Mercy]
- Type
- Image
- Date
- 1950s - 1960s
- Source
- Sisters of Mercy, North Sydney Congregation
Details
- Title
- Sister Anne O'Brien with pupils, St Catherine's Brooklyn
- Type
- Image
- Date
- 1960 - c. 1970
- Source
- Sisters of Mercy, North Sydney Congregation
Details
- Title
- Classroom on the premises, St Catherine's Brooklyn
- Type
- Image
- Date
- 1967
- Source
- Sisters of Mercy, North Sydney Congregation
Details
- Title
- Lunch in the fresh air, St Catherine's Brooklyn
- Type
- Image
- Date
- 1969
- Source
- Sisters of Mercy, North Sydney Congregation
Details
- Title
- 'Fun in the sun', St Catherine's Brooklyn
- Type
- Image
- Date
- 1969
- Source
- Sisters of Mercy, North Sydney Congregation
Details
- Title
- "Looking Back: A foundling home at Waitara"
- Type
- Document
- Date
- 1984
- Source
- Sisters of Mercy, North Sydney Congregation
Details
- Title
- St Catherine's Home, Brooklyn
- Type
- Document
- Date
- 12 April 2012
- Source
- Supplied by Miriam Grech, Sisters of Mercy North Sydney
Details
Sources used to compile this entry: 'History', in The Mater, Mater Hospital, c 2012, https://web.archive.org/web/20130502172545/http://www.materhospital.com.au/culture/history;
Institute of Sisters of Mercy in Australia and Papua New Guinea: History, Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea, https://mercy.org.au/stories/beginning-with-catherine-mcauley/;
Thinee, Kristy and Bradford, Tracy, Connecting Kin: Guide to Records, A guide to help people separated from their families search for their records [completed in 1998], New South Wales Department of Community Services, Sydney, New South Wales, 1998, https://clan.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/connectkin_guide.pdf.
Prepared by: Melissa Downing and Naomi Parry
Created: 8 March 2011, Last modified: 19 September 2014