Miroma Special School was a Steiner School located in Vaucluse from 1966 to 2010. It was established by Susan Haris, a teacher who had trained at Inala in Cherrybrook. It is not clear when Miroma stopped providing residential care to children but by 2010 it was primarily offering services to adults with intellectual disabilities and…
Kingsdene Special School at Telopea provided schooling and residential care to children aged 10-18 from March 1976. It was run by the Anglican Home Mission Society’s Care Force division, the welfare arm of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, who described it as being for children and young people with “moderate to severe intellectual disabilities”. It…
The Christ Church Boys League Welfare Bureau was set up Sydney in 1936 by the Church of England’s Reverend John Hope, through the Home Mission Society, to help boys through the Children’s Court.
As at May, 2013, Northern Sydney Local Health Network Medical Records managed the records of Dalwood Children’s Home. People seeking access to records will need to provide a photocopy of identification, such as a drivers’ licence, and a letter stating the years they were in the Home, including a contact number.
Avoca Nursing Home, in Randwick, was a private hospital. According to research done by the staff of the Northern Territory Department of Health, it was a place where children from the Northern Territory were sent, but little is known about its use as a children’s home or hospital. By 1988 Avoca Nursing Home had become…
The Liverpool State Hospital and Home was formerly the Liverpool Asylum for the Infirm and Destitute. It was a hospital and home that was for adults and young people in need of support, including people with disabilities. It was run by the New South Wales Government and operated from 1933 until 1962.
The Liverpool Asylum for the Infirm and Destitute was run by the New South Wales Government from 1862 until 1933. It had formerly been the Liverpool Asylum, run by the Benevolent Society. The Asylum provided refuge for men, including youths, described at the time as being “poor and infirm”. Those residents able to assist in…
The Church of England Deaconess Institution was a women’s religious order that operated the Deaconess Children’s Home and Domestic Training School, in Balmain, Ashfield and Annandale, from 1893-1914. They also operated Lisgar Training Service for Domestic Servants from 1893-1909 and Lisgar Children’s Home, in Harrison Street Marrickville, from 1914 to 1929, and at a property…
The Christ Church St Laurence Welfare Bureau ran after-care clinics and employment schemes to assist boys who had been through criminal hearings in the Children’s Court but were discharged. It was part of Christ Church St Laurence, an Anglo-Catholic (Anglican) Church based in Haymarket. It is thought to have operated between 1936 and around 1941.
The Institute of Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea (ISMAPNG) Archives and Heritage Centre holds the archival and heritage collections of the ISMAPNG. The ISMAPNG collections include the records of the former Sisters of Mercy congregations: Adelaide, Ballarat East, Bathurst, Cairns, Goulburn, Grafton, Gunnedah, Melbourne, Papua New Guinea, Perth, Rockhampton, Singleton, Townsville,…
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