The Register of Admissions and Discharges for Grosvenor Hospital contains information about patients at the Hospital, most of whom were under 10 years old when they were at the Hospital. The register contains the following information: date of admission and of previous admission (if any); patient number; name; sex; age; marital status; occupation; place of…
Policy re removal of children from the Northern Territory is a file held by the National Archives of Australia, located in its Canberra office. A digital copy of the file is available.
Northern Territory Administration – Welfare Branch – interstate visits 1961-1966 [reference copy] is a file held by National Archives of Australia. It is located at the Darwin office. The records relate to the Part Aboriginal Education Scheme, an initiative of the Northern Territory Welfare Branch. After the passage of the 1953 Welfare Ordinance the Director of…
This Roll Book contains the names of children admitted to the Sydney Male Orphan School between 1819 and 1848. It contains information including the child’s name, age, admission date, date leaving the school, parent’s names, parent’s occupation, parent’s address, and other notes, e.g. why they were discharged and to whom. At the back of the…
Visit to Australia of Major-General Hawthorn, director and secretary of Fairbridge Society is a file held by the National Archives of Australia. It is part of the correspondence files of the Commonwealth Immigration Department. It contains information about the activities of the Fairbridge Society in Australia. Access Conditions Open access. Records The hard copy file…
Sister Edie Owens diary, 1940-1941 is a diary created by a Methodist Sister of the People who worked at the United Aborigines Mission, Gnowangerup. The hand-written diary gives Sr Edie Owens’ (later Cowdell) impressions of daily life at the mission. It is held by the State Library of Western Australia. The diary has entries for…
Show us a light [videorecording]: the art of Carrolup is a videocassette recording about the Aboriginal ‘child artists’ at the Carrolup settlement during the 1940s and1950s. It was produced for the Marribank Family Centre in the 1980s. This item is held at the State Library of Western Australia. Access Conditions Open. Please apply to the…
M903 [2] Big Brother Movement of Tasmania contains correspondence between the Tasmanian Government Tourist and Immigration Department and the Big Brother Movement. It names some of the boys who emigrated to Tasmania under the auspices of the Movement. There are a few letters from boys and their parents. The file also contains newspaper cuttings with…
Training, Riverview Farm, Salvation Army, is a file held by the National Archives of Australia. It contains a copy of an article from the War Cry dated 12 February, 1927. The article focuses on the Salvation Army’s child migration scheme and talks about the function of the Riverview Training Farm in Queensland. Access Conditions This…
Autobiography, 1983 is a manuscript by Former Child Migrant, Graham Budd. It describes his early life in England; arrival in Melbourne, 6 January 1939; life at Northcote School, Bacchus Marsh; farm labouring in Queensland and Victoria; the establishment of a soldier settlement block on the Warrowie Estate near Colac in 1961; and subsequent life to…
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