These are records created by the institutions that functioned as the government Reformatories and Training Centres in South Australia, including the Ilfracombe, Boys Reformatory, the Reformatory Hulk FitzJames, Boys and Girls Reformatories at Magill, McNally Training Centre, South Australian Youth Training Centre, the Magill Training Centre, and the Adelaide Youth Training Centre. The records contain…
State Records of South Australia hold a small collection of records about the Cavan Training Centre and the young people who attended the centre. These records contain information relating to court appearances made by the residents, reports on the number of residents at the Centre, and minutes of meetings of the senior staff management team…
Records of Pleasant Creek Colony, later known as Pleasant Creek Training Centre, are held by the Public Record Office Victoria. They include Admission and Discharge registers, which include details about children admitted to Pleasant Creek, as well as information about staff who worked at the centre. Information in the admission and discharge registers varies by…
There is a small collection of records from the Point Pearce Aboriginal School, held by the State Records of South Australia. The collection includes admission registers and roll books, which contain information about children attending the school, including Aboriginal children living at Point Pearce Aboriginal Station. Access Conditions The Roll Books in this series are…
There is a small collection of records from the Raukkan Aboriginal School, also known as the Point McLeay Mission School, held by the State Records of South Australia. The collection includes admission registers and inspectors registers, which contain information about the school itself, and children attending the school, which includes Aboriginal children living at Raukkan/Point…
State Records of South Australia hold a collection of records created by the Glenside Hospital, later called the Glenside Campus Mental Health Service, that contain details about people admitted to the hospital and the treatments they received. Some of the record books used by the Glenside Hospital were also used by the earlier Colonial Lunatic…
State Records of South Australia hold a collection of records created by the Parkside Lunatic Asylum, later known as the Parkside Mental Hospital, that contain details about people admitted to the institution and the treatments they received. Some of the record books used by the Parkside Asylum/Hospital were also used by the earlier Colonial Lunatic…
State Records of South Australia hold a collection of records created by the Adelaide Lunatic Asylum that contain details about people admitted to the asylum. The records include admission books and papers, discharge and trial-leave papers, patient case books, patient property books, post-mortem books, visitor’s books, and various administrative papers that include details about patients…
State Records of South Australia hold a collection of records created by the Colonial Lunatic Asylum, Parkside, that contain details about people admitted to the asylum. The records include admission books and papers, discharge and trial-leave papers, visitor’s books, and various administrative papers that include details about patients transferred between the asylum and other institutions….
State Records of South Australia hold a large quantity of records created by the various departments responsible for child welfare that contain information about adoptions in South Australia. These include Adoption files, adoption index cards, envelopes containing details of relinquishing parents, and a short register of children available for adoption. The records date from 1915…