Please contact the State Records Research Centre:
Postal Address: GPO Box 464, Adelaide SA 5001
Phone: 08 7322 7077
Quote this number to access your records: State Records of South Australia Series ID, GRG27/13
These records are part of Records created by the State Children's Department (1886 - 1927).
Left hand page contains following headings: (1) Number, (2) Name, (3) Age, (4) Date of birth, (5) Late place of residence, (6) What relatives in the Colony, where Living, Earnings and Occupation. Right hand page includes: (7) Court of committal, (8) Reasons for admission etc. (9) Date of admission, (10) Date of leaving, (11) Where gone to. Notes on contents – (8) Reasons for Admission: This entry often is ‘Transfers from Industrial School’ or ‘Private inmate vide memo from Superintendent’ or ‘Private inmate vide Weekly Return’ (with date). It is therefore possible that more information might be held in correspondence files of the Children’s Welfare and Public Relief Department GRG 27/1. From 1914 no entries are made in (2) Name, (3) Age, (4) Date of birth, (5) What relatives and (6) Court of committal columns. Only name and admission and discharge details are given. This corresponds with the appearance of the entry ‘vide weekly Return’, suggesting more information may be held in those returns. Second half of book is blank.
Quantity: 1 ledger
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