The Blind, Deaf and Dumb Institution Records held by Royal Guide Dogs Tasmania result from the Institution’s work with adults and children who had sight disabilities. The records relate to the school and workshops run by the Institution. Access Conditions Care leavers and their families should contact Royal Guide Dogs Tasmania for access to the…
Kennerley Children’s Homes Records date from 1869. The records include nominal rolls, photographs, annual reports, and personal files. However, this is a small remnant of the original collection. Kennerley Boys’ Home (now Kennerley Children’s Home) sold their site in Lansdowne Crescent in 1969. About that time, most of the records were destroyed by a fire…
The Sisters of Charity Archives holds records relating to the order’s child welfare activities in Tasmania and New South Wales. The collection includes a few documents relating to the children admitted to St Joseph’s Orphanage, Tasmania. These include admission and departure books and baptismal certificates. Access Conditions Access is restricted because the records are fragile and…
The Records of Magdalen Home, which was located in Mount St Canice, Sandy Bay, Tasmania are held by the Good Shepherd Archive in Abbotsford, Victoria. Access Conditions Care leavers (and their families) wanting to find information about their time in care, or access personal files can contact Good Shepherd Archive. All requests for personal information…
Records held by AnglicareSA is a collection of records dating from 1948 to 1990, and includes information about children’s Homes run by the Church of England in Australia and Tasmania and, later, the Anglican Church of Australia. The collection consists of admission and discharge registers, case notes, meeting minutes, Matron’s reports, communication books, diaries and…
Smith Family is an unpublished manuscript collection at the State Library of South Australia. It comprises papers of the Smith family of Rivoli Bay and Mount Gambier comprising correspondence of James Smith, newspaper cuttings relating to the South East of South Australia, reminiscences of Christina Smith (Mrs James Smith) and tannery account with M.H. House,…
The records held by the Sisters of St Joseph Archives, Adelaide are primarily historical and general records related to the work of the Sisters in South Australia. The Archives holds no personal records of children who lived in institutions run by the Sisters. All personal records are held by the Professional Standards Records Service of…
The Fairbridge Society in Britain held personal and institutional records that may be of interest to people who were placed in as children at Fairbridge Farm School, Pinjarra, Western Australia, or at Drapers Hall in South Australia. These records are now managed by The King’s Trust, a British charitable organisation that merged with Fairbridge in…
The collection, Records of the Evangelical Lutheran Immanuel Synod in Australia, contains records relating to the Kallilpaninna Mission (also known as the Bethesda Mission Station) at Killalpaninna in South Australia and its outstations at Kopperamanna and Etadunna. It also contains records relating to the Hermannsburg Mission in the Northern Territory. The collection includes correspondence, school…
The collection Records of the Spastic Centres of South Australia includes records created by the Spastic Centres of South Australia Inc (SCOSA) and its predecessor the South Australian Spastic Paralysis Welfare Association (SASPWA). These include minutes, correspondence, photographs and other documents that may include information relating to the Woodville Spastic Centre and its predecessors, Dew…
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