The Sisters of the Church were an Anglican religious order of women who arrived in Australia, from England, in September 1892. The Sisters focused on religious education and out-of-home care establishing schools in Adelaide and Hobart and a school and orphanage in Sydney. Arriving in Perth in 1901, they established children’s homes, schools and a…
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…
The Moore River Native Settlement was established by the government of Western Australia in 1918. Aboriginal children of all ages from all over the State were placed there. In 1951, the government transferred management to the Methodist Overseas Mission who opened Mogumber on the same site. The Moore River Native Settlement was established by the…
The Drysdale River Mission was established by the Benedictines of New Norcia on 15 August 1908 in the Kimberleys in Western Australia. In 1937, the main ‘mission station’ was moved to Kalumburu, which had been an outstation of Drysdale River. In 1926 it was reported that there were between 50 and 60 Indigenous people living…
New Norcia Mission is the collective name for St Mary’s Mission (1848-1974) for boys and St Joseph’s Native School and Orphanage (1861-1974) for girls. These institutions were run by Benedictine monks and nuns until they closed in 1974. New Norcia Mission was the collective name for the St Mary’s Mission (from 1848) and the St…
The Chief Secretary’s Department of Western Australia was the new title given on 16 April 1924 to the Colonial Secretary’s Office. It was responsible for a number of varied functions including Harbour and Lights, Gaols, Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Astronomical Services and Racing. By 1980, the Department’s responsibilities were limited to Prisons,…
Files (Aboriginal matters) – Chief Secretary’s Department were created by the central registry of the Colonial Secretary’s Office/Chief Secretary’s Department (even though much of the correspondence was sent to, and from, the Chief Protector of Aborigines or his deputy). The files in this series, along with the files from the Department of the North-West (Records…
Carrolup was established in 1915 as a government-run ‘native settlement’. The first Superintendent was from the Australian Aborigines Mission (AAM), which also provided volunteer staff. Aboriginal children were sent to Carrolup from different parts of the State. When Carrolup closed in June 1922, all residents were sent to the Moore River Native Settlement. Carrolup was…
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