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Western Australia - Organisation

Advisory Council of Empire Settlement (1925 - 1981)

United Kingdom

From
1925
To
1981
Categories
Anglican, Church Agency and Sending Agency
Alternative Names
  • Advisory Council of Empire Settlement (also known as, 1937 - 1953)
  • Church of England Council for Commonwealth and Empire Settlement (also known as, 1954 - 1958)
  • Church of England Council for Commonwealth Settlement (also known as, 1958 - 1975)
  • Church of England Council of Empire Settlement (also known as, 1925 - 1937)
  • Committee for Overseas Settlement (also known as, 1975 - 1981)

The Church of England's migration committee (which had a number of different names) organised the migration of British children to Swan Homes in Western Australia. In his history of Swan Homes, Roy Peterkin recalled the roles of two key people in arranging the migration of more than 200 children to Swan Homes over a period of 12 years. These were Mr Alfred Arthur Robertson (Office Manager at Swan Homes and Immigration Officer for the Anglican Church in WA) and the Secretary of the Anglican migration committee in London, Miss Enid Jones MBE. Writing about this in 1988, Peterkin (p.107) acknowledged that it was a 'weakness' of the scheme that there were 'no detailed case-histories' of the British children who were sent to Swan Homes.

Publications

Books

  • Peterkin, A. Roy, The Noisy Mansions : the story of Swanleigh 1868-1971, Perth Diocesan Trustees, Anglican Church of Australia, Midland, Western Australia, 1986. pp.56, 107. Details

Online Resources

Photos

John Moss C.B.E. U.K. Child Welfare Expert. Visit to Australia. Part II
Title
John Moss C.B.E. U.K. Child Welfare Expert. Visit to Australia. Part II
Type
Document
Date
1951 - 1952
Source
National Archives of Australia
Note
There is information about the Advisory Council of Empire Settlement in the John Moss Visit to Australia file Part II, please see pp.173-174

Details

Moss Report Implementation [Excerpt] - Swan Homes
Title
Moss Report Implementation [Excerpt] - Swan Homes
Type
Document
Date
20 April 1954
Source
National Archives of Australia,

Details

Sources used to compile this entry: 'Committee for Overseas Settlement', in Database of Archives of Non-Governmental Organisations, University of Birmingham, 22 January 2008, https://web.archive.org/web/20090316062640/http://www.dango.bham.ac.uk/record_details.asp?recordType=ngo&id=2442; Peterkin, A. Roy, The Noisy Mansions : the story of Swanleigh 1868-1971, Perth Diocesan Trustees, Anglican Church of Australia, Midland, Western Australia, 1986. pp.56, 107..

Prepared by: Debra Rosser