Please contact the Family Records Service, Aboriginal Affairs NSW:
Postal Address: PO Box 207, Mascot NSW 1460
Phone: 1800 019 998
Email: familyhistory@aboriginalaffairs.nsw.gov.au
Website: https://www.aboriginalaffairs.nsw.gov.au/healing-and-reparations/family-records-service/
These records are held by Museums of History NSW (June 1961 - current).
The Register, Bomaderry Aboriginal Children’s Home, is a single-volume admission register, listing children admitted to Bomaderry.
The register appears to be a handwritten transcription of details relating to the admission and discharge of children to and from Bomaderry Aboriginal Children’s Home, written in a single hand and compiled from other sources.
In late 2022, a representative of the now-defunct UAM Ministries (the successor to United Aborigines Mission, who ran Bomaderry) transferred custody of this document to the Department of Aboriginal Affairs NSW. The original register is now held by Museums of History (State Archives NSW) for safekeeping and is owned by the Children of the Bomaderry Aboriginal Children’s Home.
Entries in the register cover the period February 1932 – October 1988 and include information such as dates of admission and discharge as well as guardians’ names. There is little other information.
Access to the Register is provided by the Family Records Unit, Aboriginal Affairs NSW. Access is provided to people named in the register, or their direct descendants.
Other records relating to the operations of the United Aborigines Mission, including some records relating to Bomaderry, are held by the State Library of South Australia.