The Purga Mission Industrial School, run by the Salvation Army, was established sometime around 1920 when the Salvation Army took control of the Purga Creek Mission. The Industrial School was on the Purga Mission Station (renamed by the Salvation Army as the Purga Aboriginal Colony), which was established in 1915 and situated between the end…
The Industrial School at the Mapoon Mission Station on western Cape York in Far North Queensland, was operated by the Presbyterian Church. In October 1901, Mapoon was gazetted as an industrial school under the Queensland Industrial and Reformatory Schools Act 1865 and then licensed in 1937 under the State Children Act 1911. It had closed…
Industrial School for Girls, in Clayfield, was operated by the Anglican Society of the Sacred Advent. It opened in 1903 and closed on 21 October 1920. The Industrial School for Girls, Clayfield was first established in a rented house called ‘Arthurton’, on Wagner Road, Clayfield. In 1911 it moved to premises on the corner of…
The Industrial School for Girls, in Nudgee, was operated by the Order of the Sisters of Mercy. It was co-located with St Vincent’s Home for Children. No girls were placed there after 1942. The Industrial School for Girls, Nudgee was established and licensed in 1903 under the lndustrial and Reformatory Schools Act 1865 and later…
Illoura Family Group Home in Beaudesert was operated by Queensland Baptist Care. It opened and was licensed in 1975. The Illoura Family Group Home closed in 1990, and subsequently became a family counselling centre. Records The Queensland Baptist Community Service has advised that a search of the archives of The Baptist Union of Queensland has…
The Industrial School for Girls, Chelmer, was operated by the Salvation Army. It was opened in 1920 and was licensed under the State Children Act 1911. The Home was also registered as a babies nursing home from 1921, however from around 1924 only girls aged 14 to 18 were admitted to the Home, with younger…
Horton House, in Toowoomba, was a children’s home run by the Salvation Army. It opened in 1963 and in 1976 the extended complex was renamed Horton Village. Former residents of Horton House gave evidence to the Commission of Inquiry into Abuse of Children in Queensland Institutions in 1998-1999. Some remembered being easily identifiable as ‘Home…
The Home of the Good Shepherd, Eton House, Nundah was operated by the Anglican Society of the Sacred Advent. The Home was formally opened in June 1893, and accommodated homeless girls. In 1894, the Home expanded to receive ‘private payment orphans’ as well. In 1901 the children were transferred to the Tufnell Home. In June…
The Anglican Church of Australia is a community of Christians scattered across Australia. It was previously known as the Church of England in Australia. The Anglican Church in Queensland ran a number of homes for children and young people. The Diocese of Brisbane is one of three dioceses in Queensland, together with North Queensland and…
The Sisters of Mercy, Rockhampton Congregation was a Catholic religious order of women who arrived in Rockhampton in 1873 from Brisbane. The Sisters operated a number of out-of-home care facilities for children during the late nineteenth century and throughout the twentieth century, including St Joseph’s Home, Neerkol and St Brigid’s Industrial School. In 1955 the…
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