Care leavers (and their families) wanting to find information about their time in care, or access personal files can contact Good Shepherd Archive.
All requests for personal information must be accompanied by some form of personal identification such as a copy of your birth certificate or a copy of your current driver's licence. If you are applying for information about another person, their permission is required. If you are applying for information about a person who is deceased, proof of death is required. Proof of your relationship to the deceased person is also required.
This collection includes:
Admission & Discharge Registers 1913 to 1969
There are 4 volumes of registers. The information in these registers includes: dates of admission and discharge; name, age and date of birth of the child; names of parents or guardian; and the reason for admission.
The Good Shepherd Archive also holds a number of supplementary records for the Home of the Good Shepherd including: case files and admission cards. The collection also includes cards recording maintenance payments for residents placed after 1968. These cards have a date range of 1969 up to 1975, when the Convent was closed and Rosemount residential programme for teenage girls was established.
We do not currently have any records linked to this organisation, but records may exist. The Find & Connect Support Service can help people who lived in orphanages and children's institutions look for their records.
We do not currently have any photographs linked to this entry. If you know of any additional photographs, please contact us.
The Find & Connect Support Service can help people who lived in orphanages and children's institutions look for their records.
Last updated:
31 July 2023
Cite this: http://www.findandconnect.gov.au/guide/nsw/NE00601
First published by the Find & Connect Web Resource Project for the Commonwealth of Australia, 2011
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