State Records of South Australia holds records that contain information about foster mothers and maternity homes. The records were kept by the State departments responsible for child and social welfare. The records contain details about women who were licensed to be foster mothers for children in State care, details about children who were placed in…
State Records of South Australia holds many records that contain information about South Australian families who had contact with the child welfare system, and relating to the paternity of South Australian children who were born outside of marriage (including for cases where this is not noted on a birth certificate). They may contain some information…
The New South Wales Government Departments for Child and Social Welfare created a collection of about 5000 photographs relating to out-of-home care and state wardship. This collection includes images of individual children who had been placed in government-run Homes and institutions. Some children appearing in photographs have been named, but many have not yet been…
The Koorie index of names is a database created by Public Record Office Victoria which can be searched to locate references to Victorian Aboriginal people who are mentioned in some archival records that relate to Aboriginal affairs (1839-1946). This database is not accessible online and is only searchable on-site at the Victorian Archives Centre in…
State Records of South Australia holds a large collection of Client Files and Family Files that were kept by the State departments responsible for child and social welfare, as well as indexes that provide reference to these files. These files contain information about children in the child welfare system and their families, and include files…
Access Conditions People mentioned in these records have a right to access information about themselves. If applying for records about a family member, please specify your relationship when making an application. Please provide evidence of your authority if you are acting on behalf of a former resident. BUSHkids aims to provide any information found as…
Records of United Aborigines Mission (UAM) – copies of records from the UAM Archive made by Alison Longworth is an archival collection at the State Library of South Australia. The records comprise copies made by Alison Longworth when she visited the UAM Archive in Doncaster, Victoria, in the early 2000s while undertaking research for her…
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…
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