Lisgar Training Home for Domestic Servants was begun in Ashfield by Captain David and Mrs Maria Scott in 1870 and became part of the Church of England Deaconess Institution in 1893. It trained young women in domestic service, including state wards aged 14, and some Aboriginal girls. From 1900 The Deaconess Children’s Home was co-located…
Anglican Deaconess Ministries Ltd was founded in 1891 as the Church of England Deaconess Ministries. Its name changed in the 1980s. Its record collection is limited but it does hold annual reports and some records of children’s homes operated by the Deaconesses, including some photographs. Records include: Deaconess Children’s Home and Domestic Training School annual…
The La Perouse Training School was opened in 1928 in Yarra Bay House at Phillip Bay at La Perouse as an annexe of the Parramatta Girls Training Home. It held girls who had been committed to Parramatta but who were generally younger and was deemed less problematic. In 1940 La Perouse Training School closed and…
Guildford Truant School for Boys was a School for Specific Purposes established by the Department of Education in the property Linnwood in 1917. It opened in 1918 and housed boys who were persistently absent from school and were under sentence from the Children’s Court. The school closed at the end of 1935. In 1936, Linnwood…
The Shaftesbury Reformatory School opened in 1880 on a site on Old South Head Road (in the present-day suburb of Vaucluse), as a replacement for the Biloela Reformatory School for Females on Cockatoo Island. It included a series of cottages and three solitary cells surrounded by high fences, and usually housed a total of around…
The Newcastle Industrial School was established on 6 August 1867 in the former Military Barracks on the Newcastle Government Domain. It was a place of detention for girls charged with neglect, wandering, street-trading or being ‘uncontrollable’. From 1869 the site was shared with the Newcastle Reformatory School for Females. In 1871 the institution was relocated…
The Canterbury Bankstown City Library Image Collection contains images of the Canterbury Bankstown local government area held by Canterbury Bankstown City Library. The collection is being digitised and is available online as Canterbury Bankstown Remembers and via Trove. The collection includes images of the Protestant Federation Home which contains images of people and buildings at…
The Presbyterian Metropolitan Mission was a city mission run by the Presbyterian Church in Sydney.
Care Force was part of the Anglican Home Mission Society. It was formed in 1984. It appears to have replaced Church of England Homes, taking over the children’s homes that had been run by the Sydney Diocese of the Church of England. Care Force later became Anglicare Child and Family Services and Anglicare Child Youth…
Ormond House, in Oxford Street Paddington, was used by the State Children’s Relief Board from 1884 until 1923. It was the Central Home or Central Depot, and was a receiving home and shelter for children of all ages. It took girls from Shaftesbury Reformatory in 1904 and Hillside Home for Mothers and Babies moved there…
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