Meteor Park (later St Joseph's Home, Neerkol)
The Admission Registers, Series ID 16533, relate to St Joseph's Home, Neerkol (also known as Meteor Park Orphanage). They provide the following details of each child: Admission number, name, place and date of birth, date of admission, reason for admission, on what terms admitted, date of discharge, to whom discharged, for what purpose discharged (eg. Service, adopted), name and occupation of parents, religion of parents, residence of parents, any remarks. The back of this register includes details of children hired out from the Home. A digitised copy of the Admission Register is available on the Queensland State Archives website.
These records are open access and are available for viewing by the general public.
The reference number used by QSA to identify the digitised item is 313140.
Prepared by: Lee Butterworth
Created: 17 December 2013, Last modified: 3 December 2014