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Archival Series Former Child Migrants Referral Index (1913 - 1968)
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- 1913
- To
- 1968
- Categories
- Repository
Summary
The Former Child Migrants Referral Index is an Access database index of all children who came to Western Australia as unaccompanied child migrants from the UK and Malta during the years 1913 to 1968 to the following Homes:
- Bindoon (St Joseph's Farm and Trade School)
- Castledare Junior Orphanage (St Vincent's Boys' Home)
- Clontarf (St Joseph's Clontarf Boys' Town)
- Fairbridge Farm School, Pinjarra
- Mofflyn, Victoria Park
- Nazareth House, Bluff Point, Geraldton
- St Joseph's Orphanage, Subiaco
- St Vincent's Foundling Home, Subiaco
- Swanleigh, Middle Swan
- Tardun (St Mary's Agricultural) Farm School
The index contains the names of 2,941 former child migrants.
Access
Access to these records is restricted and confidentiality is protected by the Department's Protocols for Access. If you believe the Department may hold records about you, or about a family member, you are encouraged to apply. The DCP has an application form which you must use to apply for records:
- Finding out about your past
Contact
Release of Information
Department for Child Protection and Family Support
PO Box 6334, East Perth WA 6892
Telephone: (08) 9222 2555
Facsimile: (08) 9222 2776
Country free call: 1800 000 277
Email: information@dcp.wa.gov.au/
Web:www.childprotection.wa.gov.au
Details
The Former Child Migrants Referral Index was developed by the Department for Family and Children's Services (which is now the Department for Child Protection and Family Support) and leaders from the agencies who held historical records about the Homes which 'received' child migrants. The Department was also able to establish an agreement with the Government of the United Kingdom to share information held in the UK. This agreement means that the Department has access to information (where records still exist) about children who were sent from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
The amount of information that will be available for people will differ from person to person, but the index is designed to identify:
- Family name
- Given name
- Other name(s) known by
- Date of birth
- Name of ship on which s/he came to WA
- Date of arrival in WA
- Placements
- Location of any records about that child, including if there are records known to exist in the UK
Events
- 1913 - 1968
- The Former Child Migrants Referral Index is available for Western Australian people in care and their direct line family descendants
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Is part of Archival Collection
Publications
Online Resources
- Department for Child Protection Western Australia, 'Searching for your family history', in Department for Child Protection website, 2012, http://www.dcp.wa.gov.au/SupportingIndividualsAndFamilies/Pages/Searchingforyourfamilyhistory.aspx. Details
Prepared by: Debra Rosser
Created: 3 August 2011, Last modified: 7 March 2013
Last updated: 28 May 2013
Cite this: http://www.findandconnect.gov.au/wa/biogs/WE00432b.htm
First published by the Find and Connect Web Resource Project for the Commonwealth of Australia, 2011
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