Education – Register of Prosecutions is a register that records details of the prosecutions of parents for the non-attendance at school of children of school age (either through truancy or non-enrolment). In the ‘Remarks’ section it includes notes on committing children to institutions, such as the Edwardstown Industrial School, Glandore Industrial School and Glandore Children’s…
This register tracks the movements of, and decisions relating to, children under departmental care. It includes information about children at the Seaforth Convalescent Home (1921 – 1946) and Edwardstown Industrial School (1898 – 1950). Access Conditions Access to records in this series is restricted for 100 years in order to protect personal privacy. People mentioned…
This register contains basic information about children under the care of the State Children’s Department in 1920 and 1921. Each page is divided into four with two squares at top and bottom. The register is arranged chronologically and provides: (1) Name, (2) Age, (3) Birth date, (4) Religion, (5) Sentenced or Movement from and to,…
This register contains information about children admitted to the Edwardstown Industrial School between 1903 and 1908. Entries across two pages. Date in top left hand corner. Left hand page: (1) Number; (2) Name; (3) Age; (4) Date of birth; (5) Late place of residence; (6) What relatives in the State, where Living, Earnings and Occupation;…
These six volumes of Registers of admissions to the Industrial School deal with admissions to both the Magill Industrial School (1869-1898) and Edwardstown Industrial School(1898-1950). They contain basic biographical information about children admitted to the Homes such as name, age, parents names and address, religion, reasons for admission, date of discharge, and where they have…
These 28 minute books contain discussion relating to the general business of the Destitute Board. Some details about individual cases are given. This Board was responsible for the placement of children before the creation of the State Children’s Council in 1886. Some books from this series are missing: there are no books dated 1857-1869, and…
This correspondence relating to the Destitute Board office is held by State Records of SA. Very few records from earlier than 1921 have survived. Some surviving earlier correspondence concerns admissions to the Destitute Asylum. Access Conditions Access to records in this series is restricted for 100 years in order to protect personal privacy. Records in…
The archival series the Nominal List of Orphan and Deserted Children Taken Out of the Destitute Asylum is a record of the children who left the Destitue Asylum between 1855 and 1861. The series provides the child’s register number (given upon arrival), date of leaving, name, age, with whom they were placed, residence, by whom…
This series contains eight registers containing details of persons (including children) admitted to the Destitute Asylum. Among other information entries provide name, age, nationality, religion, relatives, admission and discharge details and where discharged to. Notes on contents – A card index to this series is available. Each card gives (1) Name, (2) Age, (3) Residence,…
These registers record information about children born at the Destitute Asylum on North Terrace, and from 1917 at the Magill Home after the Lying-in (maternity) section moved there from the Destitute Asylum. This register provides details of child born and information about parents. Entries give names of child and parents, date of birth of child,…
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