Maintenance of quadroon and other children at Darwin Convent is a file of government correspondence relating to the placement and maintenance of a number of Aboriginal children at the Darwin Convent. The letters include the names of a number of children and provide insights into welfare policies of the time. Access Conditions Open. This record…
This file mainly contains tables of statistics related to the work of the FWOs – Female Welfare Officers – working for the Welfare Branch in Alice Springs. The file covers the years 1960 and 1961 only. Access Conditions ‘Open with exception’. This record has been digitised and is ‘Open with exception’ which means that some…
This file contains Claims for payment of Child Endowment from the Welfare Branch in Alice Springs for children in the Receiving Home. The forms include background information about children in the Home. Access Conditions ‘Open with exception’. This record has been digitised and is ‘Open with exception’ which means that some parts of the file…
This State Children’s Council file contains correspondence and copies of Minutes of Council meetings relating to the establishment of the first Government run Receiving Home in Darwin. Documents on the file also concern the fire which destroyed the Fannie Bay Receiving Home in May 1957 and arrangements made for re-establishing the Home at an alternative…
Palmerston House – Receiving Home for Adolescent Girls, Darwin is a Welfare Branch file. It contains correspondence and other documents related to the Adolescent Receiving Home and Palmerston House. Access Conditions ‘Open with exception’. This record is ‘Open with exception’ which means that some parts of the file are open and other parts are not….
Port Keats Mission Station is a correspondence file kept by the Office of the Administrator of the Northern Territory. It contains letters, memorandums and reports related to the mission at Port Keats. The file mainly includes correspondence between the Roman Catholic Church, the mission, and the Northern Territory administration. The file begins with correspondence about…
Port Keats, Catholic Mission – Northern Territory is a correspondence file kept by the Commonwealth Department of Territories. It contains letters, memorandums and reports related to the mission at Port Keats. The file includes correspondence between the Roman Catholic Church, the mission, and the Northern Territory administration. Access Conditions ‘Open with exception’. This file has…
St Mary’s Hostel – Alice Springs – Australian Board of Missions – Institution for half-caste children is a file containing documents related to the beginnings of the St Mary’s Home for Children in 1946. The Home was also referred to as St Mary’s Hostel and, when it was first established, as the Mount Blatherskite Hostel…
WB Recieving Home – Alice Springs – Bradshaw House is a National Archives file relating to the Receiving Home for children in Alice Springs which became known as Bradshaw House in 1966. The acronym WB refers to Welfare Branch. Access Conditions Open. Records This file contains letters, telegrams, reports, drawings and plans related to the…
Fire at Fannie Bay Receiving Home – Northern Territory is a National Archives file of documents. Although it has not yet been examined, the title suggests that is relates to the fire which destroyed the Fannie Bay Receiving Home in May 1956. Access Conditions Not yet examined. On Recordsearch, the search engine of the National…
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