Karril Cottage was a government-run Home for school-aged boys and girls. It had opened by 1973 and was located in the suburb of Kellyville. Karril Cottage closed in the late 1980s.
Although a NSW government guide to records, Connecting Kin (1998), stated that Karril Cottage was a boy’s Home, it was a Home for boys and girls. Boyle (1996) refers to 14 girls coming to Karril Cottage from Thornbury Lodge in 1973. Emails from former residents to the Find & Connect resource also confirm that girls and boys lived at Karril Cottage in the 1970s and early 1980s. A newspaper article from 2005 refers to Karril Cottage being “a boys’ home in Kellyville in the late 1980s” (Sydney Morning Herald, 24 November 2005).
In 2006 a former private music teacher who taught boys from Karril Cottage was convicted of sexually abusing students, including at least one from Karril Cottage.
From
c. 1973
To
c. 1989
c. 1973 - c. 1989
Karril Cottage was situated at 63 Wrights Road Kellyville, New South Wales (Building State unknown)