The Male Orphan School was established by Governor Macquarie in 1819 to house destitute boys aged between seven and ten. It was located on George Street, Sydney, in the former premises of the Female Orphan School. The boys were given a basic education, learned trades such as carpentry, hat and shoe making, and, from 1923,…
The Female School of Industry was first established in Macquarie Street in Sydney, then moved to Darlinghurst Road around 1877. It finally moved to Petersham in 1903. It was a girls’ home and domestic training home for girls aged 4 to 14. It closed in 1926. The Female School of Industry was established by a…
Shuna Red Cross Home was situated in Eastview Ave, Leura and was opened as a home for girls in 1925 by the Australian Red Cross. In either 1945 or 1946 the girls were moved to Kippilaw, also at Leura, while boys stayed at Shuna. Shuna closed in around 1951 and was later sold to the…
Kippilaw, in Leura in the Blue Mountains, was established as a Junior Red Cross Home for girls in 1945. Kippilaw received girls from Juong Junior Red Cross Home and Shuna Red Cross Home in 1945 and 1946. Kippilaw closed in 1950 and the children were transferred to Berida. Kippilaw was a Red Cross convalescent home…
Juong Red Cross Home was opened by the Red Cross in 1925 to assist children of ex-servicemen, particularly those suffering from tuberculosis. Juong housed only boys, and was in Grose Rd, Springwood, which was later called Chapman Parade, Faulconbridge. The Home closed in 1945 and the children were transferred to Kippilaw. Juong was one of…
The Sydney Home for Babies was located at Waverley, in a large two-storey house on what was then called Nelson Bay Road and is now Bronte Road. Opened in February 1910 by Mrs Greig-Smith, founder of Sydney Norland Nurseries, it was ‘founded for the care of infants who are poor and whose mothers have to…
The Dr Dill Macky Memorial Home, in Albert Road Strathfield, was founded by the Loyal Orange Lodge and run by the Australian Protestant Orphans’ Society in 1922. It housed up to 150 children at one time. It closed in 1983. Dr Dill Macky Memorial Home, Strathfield, was a sister institution for the Dr Dill Macky…
The Australian Protestant Orphans’ Society was established in 1909 by Dr Dill Macky. Macky established the Society ‘for the purpose of founding a Home for Protestant orphan children.’ The Society later ran the King Edward VII Home, Auburn and the Dill Macky Memorial Homes in Auburn and Strathfield. In 1928 its president was Mr A…
Coventry Home, in Armidale, was set up in 1933 by the Church of England, and was run by a management committee. From 1950, this committee also ran the Ohio Boys’ Home at nearby Walcha. Coventry appears to have been established as a girls’ home, but also housed some boys, including those from Ohio Boys’ Home…
Parragirls was an organisation of over 350 former residents of the Parramatta Girls Home and their supporters, including activists and academics. Parragirls provided a contact register and support network for the Forgotten Australians of the Parramatta Girls Home, Kamballa and related institutions. The organisation was formed in 2006 to lobby for the preservation of the…
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