Applications for Certificates of Exemption is a series of records created by the Board for the Protection of Aborigines, and the Aborigines Welfare Board. Certificates of Exemption could be granted to an applicant who, in the opinion of the Aborigines Welfare Board, ought to no longer be subject to the provisions of the Aborigines Protection…
Aboriginal Boys’ Training Home, Kinchela, Case Papers is a series of files, relating children who resided at the Kinchela Training Home for Aboriginal Boys. The children ranged in age from approximately 7 to 17 years. The files vary in size and content and only relate to a small number of residents of Kinchela. This series…
Histories of Girls and Boys Unattached and for whom forms have not been prepared is an alphabetical register of Aboriginal children who were not State wards and therefore were not included in the Ward Registers. The children listed in this record lived independently of the Board for the Protection of Aborigines, or were placed in…
The Aborigines Welfare Board (formerly The Board for the Protection of Aborigines) held weekly meetings from 1890-1915 and then monthly meetings. These volumes comprise minutes of meetings of the Board to its final meeting when the Board was abolished and the Aborigines Welfare Directorate was established. This series has gaps, with periods missing from 1901…
The Indexes to Ward Registers are volumes that index the information in the Ward Registers series. The records were created by the Board for the Protection of Aborigines. The volumes are arranged alphabetically in two columns, girls and boys, and record name and relevant entry in the Ward Registers. The second volume appears to be…
The Correspondence files of the Aborigines Welfare Board is a series of records held by Museums of History NSW. The files pertain to such matters as: reports on conditions of reserves; case histories of ex-wards of the Board; acquisitions of land; purchase and construction of houses; repair and maintenance of properties; tenancies; home loans; education…
The Department of Aboriginal Affairs in New South Wales is the custodian of the records of the Aborigines Welfare Board (formerly known as the Aborigines Protection Board) and the Chief Secretary. The Family Records Unit was established as a result of the New South Wales Government response to the Bringing Them Home Report to assist…
Uniting Burnside is a member of the Uniting services. It is one of the largest providers of child and family services in New South Wales and in 2010 worked with 13,000 children, young people and family members. Uniting Burnside holds the records of Burnside’s various operations on the North Parramatta site, and of Burnside group…
The Vernon was a tall ship purchased by the New South Wales Government in 1867 and converted to a Nautical School Ship. It was a reformatory and industrial school and housed more than 100 boys, training them in nautical and other trades. The Vernon was first anchored between Garden Island and the Government Domain, and…
The Aborigines Protection Association was set up in 1881 to both control Aboriginal people and ‘protect’ them from the effects of white society. It was inspired by Christian missionary work conducted by Daniel Matthews at Maloga and Reverend J.B. Gribble at Warangesda and later expanded to include Brewarrina. In 1897 it was wound up and…
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