Please contact the State Records Research Centre:
Postal Address: GPO Box 464, Adelaide SA 5001
Phone: 08 7322 7077
Email: staterecords@sa.gov.au
Quote this number to access your records: State Records of South Australia Series ID, GRG27/11
These records are part of Records of the Social Welfare Department and predecessors (1849 - c. 1987).
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; (7) Religion. Right hand page: (8) Court of committal, (9) Reasons for admission etc, (10) Date of admission, (11) Date of leaving, (12) Where gone to. Notes on contents – (6) What relatives: gives names of parents and whether they are living or deceased.
These records are open and can be accessed by any member of the public. To arrange access to these records please contact State Records of South Austrlaia.
Missing Files: According to State Records South Australia some of the admission registers for the Edwardstown Industrial School for the periods 1893-1897 and 1909-1912 were destroyed in 1944, when they were used as waste paper.