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Related Entries
Archival Collections
- Bringing them home oral history project [sound recording], National Library of Australia (1998 - 2002)
- Hostel of the Holy Name, State Library of South Australia (1947 - 1967)
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- Lady Victoria Buxton Girls Club (1944 - 1960)
- Miscellaneous Records, Girls Friendly Society (c. 1970 - c. 1990)
- Poonindie Mission [records] (1851 - 1890)
- Records held by Anglican Archives related to former Church of England Children's Homes (1860? - 1990)
- Records held by the State Library of South Australia related to Children's Homes and other institutions
- Records of Adelaide Children's Hospital, State Records of South Australia (1894? - 1978?)
- Records of St John's Boys Town, Salesians of Don Bosco, Province Centre Archives
- Records of St Vincent de Paul Orphanage, Sisters of Mercy Archives (1866? - 1975?)
- Records of Umeewarra Mission, Children's Home (1937? - 1995?)
Archival Items
- Admission Register Boys Reformatory Magill (1933 - 1943)
- Admission Register Boys Reformatory Magill (1926 - 1933)
- Boy Farm Apprenticeship Scheme South Australia (1927 - 1928)
- Letter from Professor JB Cleland on the history of Campbell House (1959)
- Lutheran Children's Emergency Home [Administrative File], State Records of SA (1966 - 1984)
- Record of Admissions to Boys Reformatory (1913 - 1924)
- Red Cross Homes History (1915 - 1971)
- Register of Admissions to the Boys Reformatory, Magill (1898 - 1914)
- Register of Admissions to the Reformatory Hulk and Boys Reformatory, Magill (1877 - 1898)
Archival Series
- St Vincent de Paul Admission Register, Book 3 (labelled 3B), Professional Standards Office of the Catholic Church (1875 - 1975)
- Aboriginal children 1960s, Kennion House (1967 - 1969)
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- Aboriginal Children sent from Croker Island to Southern institutions (1905? - 1976?)
- Aboriginal liaison files - South Australia Youth Training Centre (SAYTC) (1980 - 1999)
- Accounts Book - Magill Children's Home/Lentara (1905? - 1976?)
- Admission and Discharge registers, Convent of the Good Shepherd "The Pines" (1941 - 1974)
- Admission Book St Joseph's Orphanage, Largs Bay (1956 - 1967)
- Admission Book St Joseph's Orphanage, Largs Bay (1966 - 1970)
- Admission Cards, Colebrook Home (1950s - 1960s)
- Admission Cards, August 1968-May 1971, St Joseph's Refuge Fullarton (1968 - 1971)
- Admission cards, St Stanislaus House, Professional Standards Office of the Catholic Church (1950s - 1960s)
- Admission forms, St Mary's Mission of Hope (1970 - 1990)
- Admission Forms, Farr House (1918 - 1938)
- Admission forms, Kennion House (1948 - 1969)
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- Admission forms, Kennion House (1967 - 1970)
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- Admission forms, St Vincent de Paul Orphanage, Professional Standards Office of the Catholic Church (1893 - 1895)
- Admission list, St Vincent de Paul Orphanage, Professional Standards Office of the Catholic Church (26 May 1941)
- Admission Register, Sacred Heart Orphanage (1951 - 1979)
- Admission Register, Farr House (1934 - 1944)
- Admission Register, Tanderra Girls Home (1964 - 1973)
- Admission register - Children's Home, Walkerville Admissions and Discharges 9 Oct 1887-11 Dec 1902 (1887 - 1902)
Section 1:16
- Admission Register [photocopy], Sacred Heart Orphanage (1951 - 1979)
- Admission Register St Joseph's Orphanage, Largs Bay (1906 - 1980)
- Admission Register, August 1956-June 1968, St Joseph's Refuge Fullarton (1956 - 1968)
- Admission Register, November 1873-August 1956, St Joseph's Refuge Fullarton (1873 - 1956)
- Admissions and Discharges, Oodnadatta Children's Home (1948 - 1963)
- Admissions duplicates, Kennion House (1971 - 1981)
Section 1:17
- Admittance and Departures, August 1968-June 1971, St Joseph's Refuge Fullarton (1968 - 1971)
- Agreements and correspondence with doctors for the medical treatment of State Children and wards of the Children's Welfare and Public Relief Department (1904 - 1952)
- Alphabetical lists of children, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1869 - 1969)
- Anglican Board of Mission (Australia) records, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales (1951 - 1972)
- Anglican Board of Mission (Australia) records - General, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales (1887 - 1996)
- Annual general meeting minutes and related correspondence, Morialta Protestant Children's Home (1946 - 1950)
- Annual reports, St Mary's Mission of Hope (1906 - 1947)
- Annual reports of Karingal, The Church of England Youth Hostel Incorporated (1954 - 1963)
Section 1:14
- Annual Reports of the Aboriginal Affairs Board (1963 - 1965)
- Annual Reports of the Aborigines Protection Board (1940 - 1962)
- Annual Reports of the Aborigines Protection Board [Aboriginal Affairs Board], State Library of South Australia (1939 - 1969)
- Annual reports of the Adelaide Central Methodist Mission (1910 - 1952)
- Annual Reports of the Babies Hospital Association (1915 - 1951)
- Annual Reports of the Department for Community Welfare (1972 - 1989)
- Annual Reports of the Department for Family and Community Services and Predecessor Agencies (1971 - 1997)
- Annual Reports of the Department of Social Welfare (1925 - 1976)
- Annual Reports of the Department of Social Welfare and Aboriginal Affairs (1970 - 1972)
- Annual Reports of the House of Mercy, House of Mercy (1950 - 1974)
Section 1:12
- Annual reports of the Orphan Home, Farr House (1899 - 1979)
Section 1:7
- Annual Reports of the State Children's Council and the Children's Welfare and Public Relief Department, Social Welfare Department Records, State Records of South Australia (1887 - 1960)
- Annual Reports of the State Children's Council, 1880-1892 (1880 - 1892)
- Annual Reports to the District Convention, Lutheran Church South Australia District, Lutheran Children's Emergency Home (1967 - 1983)
- Annual Reports Wanslea Incorporated (1946 - 1991)
- Annual reports, Kennion House (1888 - 1979)
Section 1:18
- Applications by youths for assisted passage as boy migrants - "Big Brother Movement", 1927-29 (partial index available) (1927 - 1929)
- Applications by youths for assisted passage as farm apprentices (Barwell Boys), 1922-24 (index available) (1922 - 1924)
- Applications for assisted passage by agricultural labourers (1911 - 1914)
- Applications for assisted passage by farm youths, agricultural workers and agricultural settlers, 1921-30 (index available) (1921 - 1930)
- The Australia Lutheran [Periodical], Koonibba Children's Home (1913 - 1966)
- Australian Red Cross - Photographs, State Library of South Australia (1938 - 1984)
- Babies Home Minutes, Kate Cocks Memorial Babies Home (1940 - 1948)
- Barton Vale, South Australia [Photographs] (1922? - 1947?)
- Beth McMenamie Records, Vaughan House (1955 - 1972)
- Blank application form for St Francis House, Private Records of John Smith
- Boys' personal papers, Kennion House (1931 - 1960s)
Section 1:17
- Card Index - Church of England Social Welfare Bureau client files (1945 - 1949)
Section 1:28
- Card Index - Church of England Social Welfare client files - Children (1948 - 1980)
Section 1:28
- Card Index - Church of England Social Welfare client files - Unmarried mothers (1955 - 1970)
Section 1:28
- Case files relating to Aboriginal families and individuals, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1950 - 1971)
- Case files relating to Aborigines: deceased, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1950 - 1971)
- Case histories of children in the care of the Department, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1938 - 1962)
- Case register and foster homes, Church of England Social Welfare records (1947 - 1948)
Section 1:28
- Child Endowment Claim forms, The Babies Home Walkerville (1941 - 1944)
Section 1:3
- Child endowment records, Gerard Mission Children's Dormitory (1940s - 1950s)
- Children forwarded to the Roman Catholic Orphanage 1867-1869 (index) [Admission Register], State Records of South Australia (1867 - 1869)
- Children's files, Morialta Protestant Children's Home (1943 - 1973)
- Children's records and/or Old Colebrook Home records (1920s - 1980s)
- Children's releases, Morialta Protestant Children's Home (1960 - 1970)
- Children's Welfare and Public Relief Department and successor agencies, Adoption files (1915 - 2004)
- Church of England Social Welfare case registers (1947 - 1954)
Section 1:29
- Church of England Social Welfare day books (1967 - 1991)
Section 1:29
- Colebrook [Correspondence] (1927? - 1981?)
- Colebrook 1949-81 [Correspondence] (1949 - 1981)
- Colebrook Dec '47-Feb '58 [Correspondence] (1947 - 1958)
- Colebrook Home [Admission] Register (1941 - 1948)
- Colebrook Home, Inwards 1958-62 [Correspondence] (1958 - 1962)
- Commonwealth Railways Correspondence, Gerard Mission Children's Dormitory (1946? - 1961?)
- Conduct record, Boys Reformatory, Magill (1933 - 1945)
- Conference Committee [Minutes], Kate Cocks Memorial Babies Home (1948 - 1954)
- Conference Committee 1957-62 and Conference Committee 1962-68 [Minutes], Kate Cocks Memorial Babies Home (1957 - 1968)
- Corporate files, three-tiered numeric series - Community Welfare Department and successor agencies, State Records of SA (1918 - 2008)
- Correspondence, St Francis House (1947 - 1959)
- Correspondence, Kennion House (1950s - 1980)
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- Correspondence, Catholic Girls Home Parkside (1924 - 1938)
- Correspondence, Gerard Mission Children's Dormitory (1947 - 1972)
- Correspondence, Gerard Mission Children's Dormitory (1945 - 1987)
- Correspondence, Mareeba Babies Hospital (1932 - 1945)
- Correspondence - Aboriginal Women's Home, North Adelaide (1925 - 1929)
- Correspondence 'DBO' files - Destitute Board Office, Destitute Asylum (1876 - 1927)
- Correspondence filed by name of legatee, Legacy Club of Adelaide (1941 - 1979)
- Correspondence files ('CW & PRD' and 'SW' files) -Children's Welfare and Public Relief Department and successors, State Records of SA (1927 - c. 1979)
- Correspondence files ('SCD' files) - State Children's Department, State Records of South Australia (1887 - 1927)
- Correspondence Files of Colonial Surgeon's Office and successor agencies, Hospitals Department and Predecessors (1850 - 1979)
- Correspondence files of the Aborigines Office and its successor the Aborigines Department (1866 - 1969)
- Council meeting minutes, Women's Australian National Services (1944 - 1946)
- Daily returns of children in the Industrial Schools, Edwardstown Industrial School (1921 - 1939)
- Daily statistics of children in Departmental institutions, Glandore Industrial School (1952 - 1963)
- Department of Education and Children's Services: Record of Prosecutions (on spine only), State Records of SA (1928 - 1960)
- Diaries, Kennion House (1972 - 1979)
Section 1:18
- Director of Welfare, St Francis House (1958 - 1960)
- Discharge Book [St Vincent de Paul Orphanage], Professional Standards Office of the Catholic Church (1866 - 1920)
- Discharge forms, St Mary's Mission of Hope (1986 - 1990)
- Discharges A to J & Discharges K to Z [Discharge register], Kennion House (1920s - 1960s)
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- Eden Park Mt Barker Book 1 [Admission Register] (1960 - 1979)
- Eden Park Mt Barker Book 2 [Admission Register] (1977 - 1982)
- Eden Park Mt Barker Box 1 [Admission Cards] (1962 - 1981)
- Eden Park Mt Barker Box 2 [Admission Cards] (1957 - 1982)
- Executive meeting minutes, Women's Australian National Services (1945 - 1948)
- Faith Thomas [Photographs], Colebrook Home (1929 - 1957)
- Far North Children's Health Scheme - Aboriginal patients' records (1970 - 1971)
- Far North Children's Health Scheme - Warrawee Private Hospital Registers (1967 - 1968)
- Far North Children's Health Scheme Records (1947 - 1974)
- Far North Children's Health Scheme Records (1969 - 1974)
- Files relating to children under departmental supervision [Social Welfare Department and Predecessors], State Records of SA (1920 - 1950s)
- Files relating to children under departmental supervision [Social Welfare Department and Predecessors], State Records of SA (1950 - 1978)
- Finniss Springs/Colebrook/Nepabunna B [Photographs] (1930s - 1960s)
- Fullarton [Admission Cards] (1967 - 1986)
- Fullarton [Admission Cards] (1963 - 1964)
- Fullarton [Admission Cards] (1957 - 1964)
- Fullarton [Admission Cards] (1959)
- Fullarton Girls Home and Child Care (SA) [Social Files], Salvation Army Territorial Archives and Museum (1901? - 1986?)
- Fullarton Girls' Home, South Australia [Miscellaneous records], Salvation Army Territorial Archives and Museum (1901? - 1986?)
- Fullarton Girls Home, South Australia [Photographs], Salvation Army Territorial Archives and Museum (1900 - 1980s)
- General Administrative Dockets (permanent), Department for Community Welfare (1974 - 1990)
- General Administrative Dockets (permanent), Glandore (1980s - 1990s)
- General meeting minutes, Women's Australian National Services (1941 - 1997)
- General Records, Babies Home Walkerville (1944 - 1968)
- Girls Home [Minutes], Kate Cocks Memorial Babies Home (1961 - 1967)
- Girls Home Minutes, Kate Cocks Memorial Babies Home (1948 - 1961)
- Goodwood Orphanage Oral History (1993 - 1994)
- Historical information, Kate Cocks Memorial Babies Home (1930s - 1970s)
- House Committee minutes, Wanslea Childrens Home (1965 - 1980s)
- House minutes, Wanslea Childrens Home (1955 - 1964)
- House of Mercy Admissions 1971-1973 (1971 - 1973)
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- Immigration encouragement - Government schemes - South Australia - Settlement of 6000 boys (1920 - 1925)
- Index to admissions to the Industrial School (1863 - 1885)
- Index to Correspondence Files, Hospitals Department and Predecessors (1895 - 1959)
- Index to the War Cry [Periodical], Salvation Army Territorial Archives and Museum (1883 - )
- Indigenous Children, Lentara (Magill Children's Home) (1950s - 1970s)
- Indigenous Children, Lentara (Magill Children's Home) [Photographs] (1950s - 1970s)
- Individual boys' files, Kennion House (1970s)
Section 1:18
- Individual files, Convent of the Good Shepherd "The Pines"
- Individual Files, Legacy Club of Adelaide (1945? - 1964?)
- Interview with Grace Warlimont and Kathleen Grimmett by Beth M Robertson, Vaughan House (1997)
- January 1909 Admission Book, Mission of Hope, St Mary's Mission of Hope (1909 - 1946)
- JRC [Junior Red Cross] Home Register (1933 - 1958)
- JRC [Junior Red Cross] Home Register (1961 - 1968)
- Junior Red Cross Minute book (1929 - 1935)
- Junior Red Cross Minutes (1935 - 1938)
- Kate Cocks Babies' Home - Photographs, Adoption and Family Information Service of SA (1950)
- Kate Cocks Memorial Babies Home Records (1940s - 1980s)
- Kent Town Boys Home (SAust) [Photographs] (1930s)
- Kent Town Boys Home History Book (1932 - 1972)
- Koonibba Children's Home Record Book (1938 - 1953)
- Koonibba Church Register (1902 - 1988)
- Koonibba SA Personal Records Volume 2 (1900? - 2000?)
- Koonibba SA Personal Records Volume 3 (1900? - 2000?)
- List of state wards, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1960 - 1970)
- Lists of state wards, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1960)
- The Live Heart [Motion Picture Film], Private Records of John Smith (1953)
- Lying-in Home Register, April 1914-May 1923, St Joseph's Refuge Fullarton (1914 - 1923)
- Lying-in Home Register, June 1912-November 1960, St Joseph's Refuge Fullarton (1912 - 1960)
- Lying-in Home Register, May 1907-May 1912, St Joseph's Refuge Fullarton (1907 - 1912)
- Magill Children's Home/Lentara [Photographs] (1905? - 1976?)
- Mandates committing children to the custody of the Department, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1880 - 1930)
- Matron's reports, St Mary's Mission of Hope (1941 - 1970)
- Matron's reports, Kate Cocks Memorial Babies Home (1944 - 1956)
- Matron's reports, Northcote Home (1972 - 1973)
- Matron's Reports, Farr House (1914 - 1980)
- Matron's Reports, House of Mercy (1935 - 1939)
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- Matron's reports, Farr House (1921 - 1952)
- McBride Hospital (SAust) [Social Files] (1893? - 1986?)
- McBride Maternity Hospital, South Australia [Photographs] (1920s - 1980)
- Memoirs and other writings of Reverend Smith, Private Records of John Smith
- Minute Book of the Board of Wiltja Hostel (1970 - 1973)
- Minutes, Kate Cocks Memorial Babies Home (1940s - 1970s)
- Minutes - Aborigines Protection Board (1940 - 1963)
- Minutes - State Children's Council, later the Children's Welfare and Public Relief Board, State Records of South Australia (1886 - 1965)
- Minutes and papers of Waverley and Wentworth House Committee (1945? - 1964?)
- Minutes of Committee responsible for various Legacy properties including Wentworth House and Waverley House (1945? - 1964?)
- Minutes of Hostel Committee, Legacy Club of Adelaide
- Minutes of Management Committee, House of Mercy (1933 - 1972)
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- Minutes of Management Committee, Farr House (1880 - 1966)
- Minutes of Management Committee, Babies Home Walkerville (1920 - 1940)
- Minutes of the Babies Hospital Association, Mareeba Babies Hospital (1912 - 1951)
- Minutes of the Babies Hospital House Committee, Mareeba Babies Hospital (1915 - 1939)
- Minutes of the Board of Governors of the Morialta Protestant Children's Homes (1942 - 1969)
- Minutes of the board of management, Kate Cocks Memorial Babies Home (1948 - 1964)
- Minutes of the Destitute Board (1849 - 1927)
- Minutes of the Destitute Board (1870 - 1927)
- Minutes of the Gentlemen's Committee of the State Children's Council, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1903 - 1911)
- Minutes of the Ladies' Committee of the State Children's Council (1911 - 1926)
- Minutes of the management committee, St Mary's Mission of Hope (1936 - 1975)
- Minutes of the Management Committee, Kennion House (1890 - 1978)
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- Minutes of the Management Committee, St Francis House (1946 - 1961)
- Minutes of the Management Committee, Karingal Youth Hostel (1954 - 1963)
Section 1:14
- Minutes, St Vincent de Paul Orphanage, Professional Standards Office of the Catholic Church (1887 - 1890)
- Miscellaneous administrative records, Kennion House (1920s)
Section 1:17
- Miscellaneous correspondence, Sacred Heart Orphanage (1972 - 1977)
- Miscellaneous correspondence and documents, St Joseph's Orphanage Largs Bay (1923 - 1970)
- Miscellaneous correspondence and documents, St Joseph's Orphanage Largs Bay (1903 - 1980)
- Miscellaneous Correspondence and General Papers, St Mary's Mission of Hope (1930 - 1952)
- Miscellaneous Correspondence and other documents, Karingal Youth Hostel (1960 - 1964)
Section 1:14
- Miscellaneous correspondence and reports, St John's Boys Town (1893 - 1962)
- Miscellaneous correspondence, reports and other documents, St Joseph's Refuge Fullarton (1897 - 1970)
- Miscellaneous documents, St Stanislaus House (1955)
- Miscellaneous documents, Farr House (1960s - 1980s)
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- Miscellaneous Records, House of Mercy (1960s - 1970s)
Section 1:12
- Miscellaneous records, St Vincent de Paul Orphanage, Adelaide Catholic Archdiocesan Archives. (1890s - 1970s)
- Morialta Children's Home Miscellaneous Records, Social Welfare Department (1924? - 1974?)
- Mortality record book of children in the care of the Department, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1927 - 1974)
- Mt Barker Boys Home (SAust) [Photographs] (1917 - 1930s)
- Mt Barker Boys Home (SAust) [Social Files] (1900? - 1982?)
- Mt Barker Boys' Home Reports (1960s - 1980s)
- News clipping books, Private Records of John Smith
- Nominal list of orphans and deserted children taken out of the Destitute Asylum (1855 - 1861)
- Northcote Home Inc: Daily register of admittance and discharge of children, number of children and TB cases (1964 - 1973)
- Northcote Home Inc: Minutes of the board of management (1927 - 1974)
- Northcote Home Inc: Monthly register of children at the Home (1969 - 1973)
- Office Administration Files and Warrawee Hospital (1970s)
- The Open Door [Motion Picture], Morialta Protestant Children's Home (1949 - 1950)
- Orphan Home Admissions, Farr House (1898 - 1925)
Section 1:5
- The Orphan Home Admissions 1918-1928, Farr House (1918 - 1928)
Section 1:6
- Papers re Waverley House/Hostel (1945? - 1964?)
- Photographs, Legacy Club of Adelaide (1945? - 1964?)
- Photographs, Oodnadatta Children's Home (1924 - 1964)
- Photographs, Koonibba Children's Home (c. 1913 - c. 1963)
- Photographs, Mareeba Babies Hospital (1918 - 1954)
- Photographs, Private Records of John Smith (1946 - 1980s)
- Photographs, Anglican Church/Church of England Homes (1860? - 1982?)
- Photographs, Goodwood Orphanage Oral History (1866? - 1975?)
- Photographs, St Joseph's Orphanage Largs Bay (1903? - 1980?)
- Photographs, Sacred Heart Orphanage (1940? - 1979?)
- Photographs, Convent of the Good Shepherd 'The Pines'
- Photographs and albums, Warrawee Grange (1930s)
- Photographs of AIM Institutions and Miscellaneous (1930s - 1950s)
- Photographs of Departmental institutions [Social Welfare Department and Predecessors], State Records of SA (1945 - 1970)
- Photographs, St Vincent De Paul Orphanage, Adelaide Catholic Archdiocesan Archives (1866? - 1975?)
- Punishment Book, Boys Reformatory, Magill (1911 - 1934)
- Records of the Aborigines Friends Association/Reports (1925 - 1976)
- Records relating to WANS and Wanslea, Wanslea Childrens Home (1940s - 1990s)
- Reformatory, St John's via Kapunda, 1897-1909 [Correspondence], Catholic Girls Reformatory Kapunda
- Register of admissions to the Destitute Asylum, Adelaide (1870 - 1924)
- Register of Admissions to the Industrial School, Edwardstown Industrial School (1903 - 1908)
- Register of admissions to the Industrial School, State Records of South Australia (1886 - 1929)
- Register of Admissions to the Industrial School, Boys' Reformatory School, and Girls' Reformatory School, Destitute Board (1869 - 1882)
- Register of Admissions to the Methodist Home, Largs Bay (1905 - 1976)
- Register of Admissions to the Reformatory Hulk, Fitzjames, Destitute Board (1879 - 1893)
- Register of Admissions to the Roman Catholic Boy's Reformatory, Brooklyn Park (1895 - 1908)
- Register of Admissions to The Salvation Army Probationary School for Boys, Mount Barker (1900 - 1928)
- Register of infants born in the Destitute Asylum, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1880 - 1930)
- Register of New Committals, State Records of SA (1931 - 1968)
- Release orders under Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act (index available), Social Welfare Department
- Returns of children in the care of the Department, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1927 - 1928)
- Roll books, St Mary's Mission of Hope (1963 - 1983)
- Rough register of children available for adoption, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1938 - 1941)
- Rough register of children in the care of the Department, State Children's Department (1920 - 1921)
- SA Colebrook Home [Correspondence] (1947 - 1948)
- SA Places and Events [Motion Picture], Colebrook Home (1936)
- Scrapbooks, Junior Red Cross Homes (1930 - 1959)
- Scrapbooks, Junior Red Cross Homes (1938 - 1984)
- Secretary's reports, St Mary's Mission of Hope (1941 - 1963)
- Social files, Barton Vale Girls Home (1922? - 1947?)
- Social Welfare Department and its successors, Client files (1966 - 2001)
- Social Welfare Department Photographs, Morialta Protestant Children's Home (1924 - 1957)
- Social Worker's Reports, House of Mercy (1965 - 1974)
Section 1:11
- Social worker's reports, Kennion House (1978 - 1980)
Section 1:17
- South Australia Youth Remand and Assesment Centre (SAYRAC) logs (1961 - 1999)
- South Australia Youth Remand and Assessment Centre (SAYRAC) admission/intake cards, State Records of SA (1972 - 1994)
- South Australia Youth Remand and Assessment Centre (SAYRAC) property and personal disposition records (1978 - 1996)
- South Australia Youth Training Centre (SAYTC) admission/intake/discharge cards (1962 - 1997)
- South Australia Youth Training Centre (SAYTC) logs (1967 - 1993)
- South Australia Youth Training Centre (SAYTC) property and personal disposition records (1967 - 1993)
- South Australia Youth Training Centre (SAYTC) property and personal disposition records (1967 - 1993)
- St Joseph's Girls' Refuge, Fullarton Admission cards, St Joseph's Refuge Fullarton (1942 - 1956)
- St Joseph's Girls' Refuge, Fullarton, Permanent Residents [Admission Cards], St Joseph's Refuge Fullarton (1940s - 1970s)
- St Mary's admissions 1970s, St Mary's Mission of Hope
- St Mary's Discharge and Admission, St Mary's Mission of Hope (1974 - 1978)
- St Vincent de Paul Admission Register, Book 1, Professional Standards Office of the Catholic Church (1875 - 1929)
- St Vincent de Paul Admission Register, Book 2, Professional Standards Office of the Catholic Church (1920 - 1949)
- St Vincent de Paul Orphanage, Burnside [Admission Register], Professional Standards Office of the Catholic Church (1872 - 1883)
- St Vincent de Paul Orphanage, Burnside [Admission Register], Professional Standards Office of the Catholic Church (1872 - 1889)
- State Children's Department Lying-in Home Register, August 1901-May 1907, St Joseph's Refuge Fullarton (1901 - 1907)
- State Ward Index Cards, State Records of SA (1900 - 1992)
- Superintendent's maintenance reports, Kennion House (1960s - 1970s)
Section 1:17
- Synodical Reports Proceedings of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Australia [ELSA], SA District, Koonibba Children's Home (1900 - 1966)
- Visitors book, Estcourt House (1896 - 1955)
- Visitors' reports, St Mary's Mission of Hope (1949 - 1973)
- Wiltja Hostel Records (1969 - 1982)
- Wiltja Hostel Reports (1956? - 1982?)
- Wiltja Residents [Admission Register] (1973 - 1975)
Legislation
- Destitute Persons Relief Act 1866, Colony of South Australia
- Maintenance Act Amendment Act, State of South Australia (1958)
Organisations
- Aboriginal Women's Home, North Adelaide (1926 - 1970s)
- Aborigines Advancement League
- Aborigines Friends Association
- Aborigines Protection Board, South Australian Government (1940 - 1963)
- Adelaide Catholic Archdiocesan Archives
- Adelaide Central Methodist Mission (c. 1901 - 1977)
- Adelaide Children's Hospital (1876 - 1989)
- Adelaide Maternity Home (1893 - 1914)
- Albara Road Cottage, Woodville Spastic Centre (1990s - )
- Allambi Girls Hostel (1947 - 1977)
- Anglican Archives
- Anglican Church of Australia (1981 - )
- Anglican Social Welfare Bureau (1981 - 1997)
- Anglicare SA (1997 - )
- Australian Board of Missions
- The Australian Red Cross
- The Babies Home Walkerville (1912 - 1945)
- The Babies Hospital Association
- Babies' Hospital, St Peters (1915 - 1917)
- Baptist Union
- Barton Vale Girls Home (1922 - 1947)
- Bedford Park Boys Training Centre (1961 - 1965)
- Blair Athol Unit (1984? - ?)
- The boarding section of Salesian School (1954 - 1984)
- Bon Agor Cottage (1982? - )
- Bonython Cottage (1981 - )
- Boys Reformatory Hulk, Fitzjames (1880 - 1891)
- Boys Reformatory, Magill (1869 - 1967)
- Braemore Cottage
- The Bridge Industrial Home (1934 - 1977)
- The Bridge Rescue Home (1899 - 1934)
- Brookman Cottage (1985 - 1989)
- Brookway Park (1965 - 1978)
- Brookway Unit (1984? - 1992)
- Brothers of St John the Baptist
- Campbell House Farm School, Meningie (1959 - 1963)
- Campbelltown Community Unit 'Cornerways' (1995 - )
- Cann Cottage, Lentara (1957 - c. 1977)
- Cann Home (1924 - 1957)
- Catholic Girls Home Parkside (1930 - 1943)
- Catholic Girls Reformatory Kapunda (1897 - 1909)
- Cavan Training Centre (1993 - )
- Cecil Street Cottage
- Centacare Catholic Family Services (1975 - )
- Central Depot (1900 - 1965)
- Central Region Admission Unit (1979 - ?)
- Cheltenham Cottage Home (1976 - ?)
- Children, Youth and Family Services, Department for Families and Communities, South Australian Government (2004 - 2006)
- The Children's Home at Walkerville (1886 - 1903)
- Children's Welfare and Public Relief Board (1927 - 1966)
- Christian Brethren/Open Brethren Assemblies of South Australia
- Christies Beach Cottage (1976 - c. 1985)
- The Church of England Boys Home at Walkerville (1903 - 1955)
- Church of England Diocesan Mission House (1945 - 1949)
- Church of England in Australia and Tasmania (1788 - 1981)
- Churches of Christ
- Claring-bould Cottage
- Clark Cottage, Clarence Park (1963 - 1979)
- Colebrook Home (1927 - 1981)
- Colebrook Tji Tji Tjuta
- Colton Cottage (1987 - 1994?)
- Colton Cottage, Thorngate (1965 - 1982)
- Congregational Union
- Convent of the Good Shepherd "The Pines" (1941 - 1974)
- Cullford Cottage
- Curtice Cottage, Lentara (1957 - 1977)
- Dartmouth Family Home, Port Augusta (1973 - ?)
- Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul
- Davenport House (1964 - 1977)
- Davenport Reserve, Mission Home (1964 - 1995)
- Department for Community Welfare, South Australian Government (1972 - 1990)
- Department for Family and Community Services, South Australian Government (1990 - 1998)
- Department of Aboriginal Affairs, South Australian Government (1963 - 1970)
- Department of Social Welfare, South Australian Government (1966 - 1970)
- Department of Social Welfare and Aboriginal Affairs, South Australian Government (1970 - 1972)
- Destitute Asylum (1849 - 1881)
- Destitute Board, South Australian Government (1849 - 1886)
- Dew Street Cottage, Woodville Spastic Centre (1986 - 1991)
- Dismus House, Good Samaritans, Greek Orthodox (1980 - ?)
- Drapers Hall, Crafers - Fairbridge Society Inc (1962 - 1981)
- Dunant House, Red Cross (1970? - )
- Edwardstown Industrial School (1898 - 1950)
- Elizabeth Cottage (1976 - ?)
- Enfield Community Unit (1990 - )
- Estcourt House (1894 - 1978)
- Fairbridge Society Inc (London)
- Family Home, Mount Gambier (1972 - ?)
- Far North Children's Health Scheme
- Farr Cottage (1988 - 1996?)
- Farr Cottage (1976 - 1988)
- Farr House (1860 - 1980)
- Fullarton College, Myrtle Bank (1970 - 1980)
- Garden Cottage (1976 - 1984)
- Gerard Mission Children's Dormitory (1946 - 1961)
- Gilles Plains Community/Assessment Unit (1979 - )
- Girls Friendly Society (1875 - )
- Girls Friendly Society Lodge (1913 - 1975)
- Girls Reformatory, Edwardstown (1890 - 1898)
- Girls Reformatory, Magill (1881 - 1891)
- Glandore Boys' Home (1966 - 1973)
- Glandore Children's Home (1958 - 1966)
- Glandore Community Unit (1979 - ?)
- Glandore Family Home (1972 - 1979)
- Glandore Industrial School (1950 - 1958)
- Glasgow Street Cottage (1984 - ?)
- Good Samaritan Archives
- Good Samaritan Sisters
- Good Shepherd Sisters Archives
- Grace Darling Hotel (1867 - 1869)
- Greenslade Home (1912 - 1976)
- Hannah Buckley Home (1982? - )
- Hay Cottage, Lockleys (1968 - ?)
- Home Missions Department of the Methodist Conference
- Hostel of the Holy Name (1949 - 1975)
- The House of Mercy (1881 - 1974)
- Hove/Brighton Cottage (1976 - 1986)
- I'Anson Cottage, Lentara (1957 - c. 1977)
- Ilfracombe, Boys Reformatory (1869 - 1880)
- Independent Living Programme (1988 - ?)
- Independent Order of Oddfellows
- James Brown Memorial Trust
- Joyville Cottage (1972 - )
- Junior Red Cross Homes (1933 - 1968)
- Kali Boys Hostel (1971 - 1977)
- Kandarik Cottage, Somerton Park (1975 - 1988)
- Karingal Youth Hostel (1952 - 1964)
- Kate Cocks Memorial Babies Home (1937 - 1976)
- Kennion Cottage (1984 - 1989?)
- Kennion House (1955 - 1982)
- Klemzig Family Home (1973 - 1980)
- Kolbe Cottage Home (2001 - )
- Koonibba Children's Home (1913 - 1963)
- Kumanka Boys Hostel (1946 - 1980)
- Kurbingai Hostel (1958 - 1962)
- Kurinda Cottage (1981 - )
- Lady Victoria Buxton Girls Club (1898 - 1955)
- Largs Bay Cottage (1976 - c. 1985)
- Largs Bay Cottage Home (1970 - ?)
- Legacy Club of Adelaide Inc
- Lentara (1960 - 1977)
- Little Para House (1978 - 1984?)
- Lochiel Park Boys Training Centre (1947 - 1995)
- The Lodge, Lochiel Park Community Unit (1995 - )
- Louise Place (c. 2001 - )
- Luprina Hostel (1971 - )
- Lutheran Archives
- The Lutheran Church of Australia
- Lutheran Emergency Home for Children (1966 - 1984)
- Lutheran Girls Hostel, College Park (1959 - 1982?)
- Magill Industrial School (1869 - 1898)
- Magill Training Centre (1993 - )
- Malvern Cottage (1972 - 1980)
- Mansfield House
- Mareeba Babies' Hospital (1917 - c. 1969)
- McBride Hospital (1975 - 1986)
- McBride Maternity Hospital (1914 - 1975)
- McNally Training Centre (1967 - 1979)
- Merrilama Cottage, Glenelg (1960 - 1980)
- Methodist Children's Home (1905 - c. 1923)
- Methodist Children's Homes (c. 1924 - 1960)
- Minda Home (1898 - )
- Minnie Maughan Cottage, Lentara (1955 - 1980?)
- Montrose Avenue Cottage (1986 - )
- Morada Cottage (1975 - 1979)
- Morialta Protestant Children's Home (1924 - 1974)
- Morialta Protestant Children's Home, Board of Management (1924 - 1974)
- Nidlandi Hostel, South-East Corner Group (1974 - 1981)
- Nindee Hostel (1971 - )
- Ningana Community Unit (1979 - ?)
- North Adelaide Community Unit (c. 1989 - 1997)
- Northcote Home (1928 - 1973)
- Northcote Home management committee
- Northern Region Admission Unit (c. 1979 - c. 1989)
- Northern Region Admission Unit (c. 1979 - c. 1989)
- Northern Region Group Home (1980 - ?)
- Oodnadatta Children's Home (1924 - 1964)
- Oodnadatta Hostel, Save the Children fund (1971 - 1986)
- Ooldea Mission Children's Dormitory (1938 - 1952)
- Orana Cottage Home (2001 - )
- Order of the Good Shepherd Sisters
- Parkside Boys Hostel (2001 - )
- Parkside Hostel (2001 - )
- Poonindie Mission (1851 - 1890)
- Port Lincoln Family Home (1973 - 1980)
- Port Pirie Catholic Diocesan Office
- Port Pirie Cottage (1962 - 1980)
- Professional Standards Office Records Service of the Catholic Church
- Pybus Family Home, Port Augusta (1972 - 1980)
- Ragless Avenue Cottage (1983 - 1985)
- Reception Cottage, Glandore/Somerton Park (1973 - 1979)
- Redruth Girls Reformatory (1897 - 1922)
- Regency Park Community Unit (1997 - )
- Resurrection Sisters
- Roberts Cottage, Lentara (1964 - 1980?)
- Roberts Home (1921 - 1954)
- Rose Cottage (1983 - 1990)
- Rose Street Family Connections Unit (1990 - 1993)
- Ross Cottage/Nairne Street Cottage (1984 - 1993)
- SA Council of the Australian Inland Mission
- SA Protestant Federation
- Sacred Heart Orphanage (1940 - 1979)
- Salesians of Don Bosco
- Salesians of Don Bosco, Province Centre Archives
- The Salvation Army
- The Salvation Army Australia Southern Territory Territorial Archives and Museum
- The Salvation Army Boys Home, Eden Park (Mount Barker) (1900 - 1982)
- The Salvation Army Boys Home, Kent Town (1929 - 1972)
- The Salvation Army Girls Home (1901 - 1986)
- The Salvation Army Heritage Centre, Archives and Museum
- Salvation Army Young Women's Hostel (1922 - 1988)
- Seaford Youth Support (1980 - ?)
- Seaforth Convalescent Home (1921 - 1946)
- Seaforth Home (1946 - 1975)
- Seanachai Cottage Home (2001 - )
- Sisters of Mercy
- Sisters of Mercy Archives, Adelaide
- Sisters of St Joseph
- Sisters of St Joseph Archives, Adelaide
- Sisters of the Community of the Holy Name
- Slade Cottage, Glandore/Somerton Park (1973 - 1988)
- Smith Street Cottage (1976 - 1984)
- South Australian Youth Remand and Assessment Centre (1979 - 1993)
- South Australian Youth Training Centre (1979 - 1993)
- Southern Region Admission Unit (1979 - ?)
- Southern Region Group Home (1980 - c. 1990)
- Spence Cottage, Kensington Gardens (1963 - 1980)
- St Francis House (1946 - 1959)
- St John the Baptist Home for Boys (1898 - 1941)
- St John's Boys Town (1941 - 1953)
- St John's Cottage Home (1984 - )
- St John's Cottage Home (2001 - )
- St Joseph's Children's Home (1969 - 1980)
- St Joseph's Home (2001 - )
- St Joseph's Orphanage Largs Bay (1907? - 1969)
- St Joseph's Refuge (1868 - c. 2001)
- St Joseph's Sanatorium, Largs Bay (1903 - 1907?)
- St Mary's Mission of Hope (1904 - 1990?)
- St Monica's Cottage Home (1984 - )
- St Stanislaus House (1956 - 1978)
- St Stanislaus House Archives
- St Vincent de Paul Group Home (2001 - )
- St Vincent de Paul Orphanage (1866 - 1975)
- St Vincent's Trust Endowment Society
- State Children's Council (1886 - 1927)
- State Library of South Australia
- State Records of South Australia
- Stirling Cottage, St Peters (1962 - 1979)
- Struan Farm School, Naracoorte (1947 - 1969)
- Stuart House Boys Hostel (1964 - 1995)
- Sturt Community/Assessment Unit (c. 1988 - )
- Tanderra Girls Home (1952 - 1973)
- Territorial Social Programme branch of The Salvation Army (? - 2012)
- Tintoo Cottage, Somerton Park (1975 - 1979)
- Umeewarra Mission, Children's Home (1937 - 1964)
- Umeewarra Nguraritja
- Unit Living, Marion (1974 - c. 1989)
- United Aborigines Mission
- United Aborigines Mission Archives
- Uniting Communities (2012 - )
- Vaughan House (1947 - 1979)
- Wanslea Children's Home (1947 - 1980)
- Warrawee, Grange (1950 - 1975)
- Waverley Hostel (1982? - )
- Waverly, Legacy Children's Home (1945 - 1964)
- Western Region Admission Unit (1980 - ?)
- Wiltja Hostel (1956 - 1982)
- Windana Remand Home (1965 - 1975)
- Women's Australian National Services
- Womens Welfare Department of the Methodist Conference
- Woodville Assessment Unit (c. 1989 - ?)
- Woorabinda Hostel (and Campsite) (1968 - 1993)
- Yoorana Cottage (1982? - )
People
- Barker, Elizabeth
- Barr-Smith, Mrs Robert
- Barr-Smith, Robert
- Beovich, Archbishop Matthew (1896 - 1981)
- Brown, Mrs Jessie
- Bubb, Edith
- Buxton, Lady Victoria (1839 - 1916)
- Cocks, Kate
- Dove, Reverend George
- Farr, Julia ( - 1914)
- Gamble, Mrs
- Holden, Mary Elizabeth
- McBride, Mr R J
- McNally, Frederick John
- Michel, Captain
- O'Brien, Sister Helena
- O'Reily, Archbishop
- Price, Elizabeth
- Russell, Archdeacon Patrick
- Symon, Miss E
- Symon, Miss M
- Symon, Sir Josiah
- Tucker, Mr E W
- Vaughan, Dorothy
- Willoughby, Mrs F C
