Want some help?

• Support groups and services
• How to use this site
• Ask us a question

Does this page need updating?

• Tell us about it

What to expect when accessing records about you.

What to expect

Other Find & Connect resources

• Find & Connect Australia

Author

Barnard, Jill; Twigg, Karen

Title

Holding on to Hope: a history of the founding agencies of MacKillop Family Services 1854-1997

Imprint

Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2004

Related Entries

Events

• Emergency Shelter: early colonial child welfare (1835 - 1850)
• Opening of Victoria's first children's institution (1850)
• Wattle Day Appeal (c. 1910 - c. 1975)

Glossary Terms

• Family group home
• Siblings in Care

Legislation

• Neglected and Criminal Children's Act 1864, Colony of Victoria

Organisations

• Catholic Social Service Bureau (1935 - 1998)
• Charities Board of Victoria (1923 - 1948)
• Child Saving Council (1910 - 1912)
• Christian Brothers (1868 - )
• Convent of the Good Shepherd, Abbotsford (1863 - 1971)
• Friendly Brothers' Society (1845 - c. 1880)
• Geelong Orphan Asylum (c. 1854 - 1862)
• Government Welfare Training Council (1963 - )
• MacKillop Family Services (1997 - )
• McAuley House (1942 - 1965)
• Mercy Family Care Centre (c. 1975 - 1997)
• Our Lady's Orphanage (1862 - 1912)
• St Anthony's Children's Home (c. 1921 - 1943)
• St Anthony's Home (1943 - 1976)
• St Augustine's Boys' Home (1966 - 1988)
• St Augustine's Boys' Orphanage (c. 1855 - 1939)
• St Augustine's Orphanage (1939 - 1966)
• St Catherine's Children's Home (1960 - 1975)
• St Catherine's Orphanage (1912 - 1960)
• St James' Orphan Asylum and Visiting Society (c. 1845 - 1853)
• St Joseph's Babies' and Family Service (1985 - 1997)
• St Joseph's Foundling Hospital (1901 - 1975)
• St Joseph's Home for Destitute Children, Sisters of St Joseph (1890 - 1925)
• St Joseph's Home for Destitute Children, The Society of St Vincent de Paul (1888 - 1890)
• St Joseph's Nursery (1959 - 1976?)
• St Joseph's Receiving Home (1902 - 1985)
• St Vincent de Paul Child and Family Services (1992 - 1997)
• St Vincent de Paul Children's Home (1962 - 1992)
• St Vincent de Paul Orphanage (1855 - 1967)
• St Vincent de Paul's Girls' Orphanage (1861 - 1962)

  pp. 21, 51

• Young Catholic Workers' Hostel (1946 - 1959)