‘John Moss, CBE – U.K. Child Expert. Visit to Australia. Part I’ is a file held by the National Archives of Australia. It documents the arrangements for a visit to Children’s Homes and State child welfare authorities by John Moss CBE, a ‘UK Child Expert’ who worked for the Home Office in Britain. The file…
‘John Moss Report on Child Migration – Implementation of Recommendations’ is a file held by the National Archives of Australia. The file documents the responses from Children’s Homes, State child welfare authorities, sending and receiving agencies to recommendations made by Mr John Moss CBE a ‘UK Child Expert’ who worked for the Home Office in…
The Priory was a hostel for students going to high school in Albany. The Priory was purchased by the Education Department of Western Australia in 1955. It was possibly run by the Anglican Diocese of Bunbury on behalf of the Education Department from 1957. From around 1961 to 1988 it was under the control of…
The Sisters of St Elizabeth of Hungary was a British Anglican Order of nuns. They arrived in the Anglican Diocese of Bunbury in 1928 to help British group settlers in that district. Their convent was in Spencer Street. With a donation from a supporter, they built and ran the Mary Clementina Hostel for Girls who…
The Mary Clementina Hostel for Girls who went to Bunbury High School was established by the Sisters of St Elizabeth of Hungary, a group of Anglican nuns, in Bunbury in 1931. The hostel was named after Mary Clementina Benthall, who donated £1500. The hostel closed in 1952.
The Sisters of the Society of the Sacred Advent was an Anglican religious order that arrived in Perth, from England, in 1933 to manage the Parkerville Children’s Home after the Community of the Sisters of the Church left. The Sisters of the Society of the Sacred Advent managed Parkerville Children’s Home until the Community of…
The Sisters of the Church (also known as Kilburn Sisters) were an Anglican religious order of women who arrived in Perth, from England, in 1901. They established Tower House in 1901; Perth College in 1902; the Waifs’ Home, Parkerville in 1903; Girls’ High School, Kalgoorlie in 1903; and the Malcolm Street Receiving Home in 1907….
Safe Ministry Professional Standards, Anglican Diocese of Perth, is a service for people who have suffered abuse in out of home care run by the Anglican church or its agencies.
Methodist Church of Australasia. Dept. of Overseas Missions collection, 1830-1971, 1980 is an aggregated collection of records of the administrative and field activities of the Methodist Church Overseas Missions in the Pacific region, including Fiji, Tonga, Solomon Islands, New Zealand, New Guinea and Northern Australia and others. The collection includes minutes of various boards and…
The Mogumber Training Centre was an administrative unit in the Methodist, and then Uniting Church. It ran a number of ‘cottages’ and programs that had been run from Mogumber before the facility at Moore River closed in 1974. The Mogumber Training Centre became part of Sister Kate’s Child and Family Care Services in 1980. The…
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