This image shows a blank Admittance Form, used by the Foundling Hospital and Infants’ Home. Typical information recorded about an infant in its Admittance Form included: Name of child; Date of admission; Details of parents or guardian. The institution used this format, with Admittance Forms bound in a ‘red book’, from 1940 to 1974. Typical…
This 4 page digitised document is an appeal for benefactors to donate to the Melbourne Orphanage.
This 22 page digitised document is a copy of the Melbourne Orphan Asylum’s Annual Report for 1866.
Notes of a Meeting on Monday 22 September 2008 relating to the roll-out of CRISSP. This webpage is no longer in operation. This link has been taken from the Wayback Machine and is dated 1 March 2011.
In February 2008, a memorial service commemorated children formerly residing at Ballarat Orphanage who now rested at a grave site in the Ballarat New Cemetery, Private F Section. The names of these children are displayed on a memorial plaque at the grave site. This document shows the names of the children, their ages at the…
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