Papers of the Country Womens Association WA Incorporated is a collection of letters and information sheets created by the State Executive of the Country Women’s Association (CWA) that is held by the State Library of Western Australia. The collection includes information that may be relevant to people who were sent to CWA hostels when they…
Perth Protestant Orphanage / Perth Anglican Orphanages is a collection of records held on microfilm in the Battye Library’s Private Archives Collection at the State Library of Western Australia. There are records for: Bishop Hale’s Institution for Native and Half-Caste Children in Perth; Swan Native and Half Caste Mission, Middle Swan; Redhill Industrial School; Perth…
The Battye Library’s Private Archives Collection contains records of the Perth Girls’ Orphanage Chapel in Western Australia. The Battye Library has created a finding aid (known as a Manuscript Note or MN) to help people to see what information is held in this collection. Please see MN 614. The Chapel collection contains registers from the…
The Archive of the Catholic Archdiocese of Perth holds around 1,000 files relating to Former Child Migrants. The collection includes files created by the Catholic Episcopal Migration and Welfare Association and the Catholic Migrant Centre. The files may include information from Malta, from Children’s Homes in Britain and the Catholic Homes to which children were…
The Battye Library’s Private Archives Collection contains a collection of papers from Mrs Irene May Stahl, who, from 1933, was a member of the Child Welfare Department’s Boarding Out Committee for the Victoria Park district. This collection is identified by the manuscript number MN 2315. Names of children who were ‘boarded out’ (placed in care)…
Fairbridge Society and Fairbridge Farm School Pinjarra, Records is a collection of records of the Fairbridge Society and the Fairbridge Farm School, Pinjarra, held in the Battye Library’s Private Archives Collection at the State Library of Western Australia. This collection is identified by the manuscript number MN 62. The Fairbridge collection contains administration and personal…
Records of the Church of England Council for Empire Settlement [Council for Overseas Settlement] are held at the Lambeth Palace Library (formerly part of the Church of England Records Centre collection). The records include various committees’ minutes, annual reports, operational registers, agreements, and correspondence. There may be records about child migration to Swan Homes in…
Records of Christian Brothers Children’s Institutions in Western Australia is held by MacKillop Family Services in Victoria. (Previously, until 2019, it was held by the Westcourt Archives, Western Australia.) The collection includes records from 1888 to 1983 relating to children’s institutions run by the Christian Brothers in Western Australia. The collection includes admission registers and…
Father Hudson’s Society holds records for people who were sent as child migrants to Australia from the following Homes: St Edward’s Boys Home, Coventry Road, Coleshill; St Joan’s and the Nursery, Coventry Road, Coleshill; and St Paul’s, High Street, Coleshill. There may also be records from Nazareth House, Rednal, Birmingham. The files may be relevant…
Sister Kate’s Child and Family Services records, 1934-2002 [manuscript] is a collection of records held in the Battye Library’s Private Archives Collection at the State Library of Western Australia. The collection contains a range of records, some which are restricted to protect people’s privacy. The items in this collection include personal and administration records and…
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