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New South Wales - Organisation
Benevolent Society of New South Wales (1813 - )
- From
- 1813
- Categories
- Adoption Agency, Care Provider, Non-denominational and Records Access Service
- Alternative Names
- The Benevolent (also known as)
- New South Wales Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and Benevolence (also known as, 1813 - 1818)
- Website
- http://www.benevolent.org.au/
The Benevolent Society of New South Wales was established on 8 May 1813 and is celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2013. It was founded to provide aid to the destitute, needy, sick and vulnerable aged people, women and children. For much of the nineteenth century it was effectively the social welfare arm of the New South Wales Government, as the government paid the society to provide residential care and deliver aid to the poor of Sydney and beyond.
Publications
Books
- Rathbone, Ron, A Very Present Help: Caring for Australians Since 1813, State Library of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 1994, 237 pp. Details
- Scifleet, Paul, Guide to the Records of the Benevolent Society of New South Wales in the Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, 1996. Details
Reports
- Squires, Kathryn and Slater, Lisa, Living at Scarba Home for Children: A history of the Scarba Welfare House for Children (1917-1986) in the context of child welfare practice in New South Wales, Benevolent Society, Paddington, 2006, 56 pp. Details
Resources
- Benevolent Society: 200 year celebration: Last 200, Benevolent Society, 2013. Details
Online Resources
- 'Infirm / Destitute Asylums Guide', in Museums of History NSW website, Museums of History NSW, https://mhnsw.au/guides/infirm-destitute-asylums-guide/. Details
- 'A tradition of caring', Australian Women's Weekly, 13 December 1978, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55469816. Details
- 'Royal Hospital for Women, Paddington NSW', in History Pin: The Benevolent Society, The Benevolent Society, 2011, https://www.historypin.org/en/royal-hospital-for-women-paddington-nsw/geo/-33.883555,151.225563,5/bounds/-48.439701,139.554649,-16.356412,162.896477/paging/1. Details
- Historypin: The Benevolent Society channel, The Benevolent Society, 2011, https://www.historypin.org/en/person/28447. Details
- 'Scarba House for Children (Historypin)', in Historypin: The Benevolent Society, The Benevolent Society, 2011, https://www.historypin.org/en/scarba-house-for-children. Details
- Bluett, Ros, 'Charity and Justice: The early days of the Benevolent Society in Sydney', ABC Radio National Hindsight, 24 March 2013, http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/the-benevolent/4552918. Details
- Sydney Benevolent Asylum: Index to Admissions and Discharges 1857-1900, 2007, http://www.sydneybenevolentasylum.com/. Details
- O'Brien, Anne, Poverty's Prison: the poor in New South Wales 1880-1918, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1988, 256 pp. 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
- Thompson, Geoff and Hichens, Clay, 'Given or Taken?', ABC Four Corners, ABC Ultimo, 27 February 2012, https://web.archive.org/web/20211217091326/https://www.abc.net.au/4corners/given-or-taken/3860552. Details
Photos
- Title
- Liverpool Asylum
- Type
- Image
- Date
- 1850s
- Publisher
- Benevolent Society
Details
- Title
- Benevolent Asylum
- Type
- Image
- Date
- c. 1901
- Publisher
- Benevolent Society
Details
- Title
- Living at Scarba Home for Children: A history of the Scarba Welfare House for Children (1917-1986)
in the context of child welfare practice in New South Wales
- Type
- Document
- Date
- 2006
- Source
- The Benevolent Society of NSW
Details
Sources used to compile this entry: Scifleet, Paul, Guide to the Records of the Benevolent Society of New South Wales in the Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, 1996;
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: Naomi Parry
Created: 18 March 2011, Last modified: 16 December 2014