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New South Wales - Organisation
St Clair Aboriginal Mission (1893 - 1923)
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Sunday school scholars, teachers, missionaries. Cherbourg AIM Church [Singleton Home], c. 1908, courtesy of State Library of New South Wales.
DETAILS
- From
- 1893
- To
- 1923
- Categories
- Home, Children's Home, Mission, Protestant
- Alternative Names
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- Mount Olive Reserve
- Singleton Aboriginal Mission
St Clair Mission, located in Carrowbrook between Muswellbrook and Singleton, was an Aboriginal mission that was established by Reverend JS White in 1893. In the late 1890s Retta Dixon, a Baptist missionary, moved to the Mission. In 1905 she formed the Aborigines Inland Mission and took formal control of St Clair. She established the Singleton Children's Home on St Clair in the same year. St Clair operated until 1918 when it was taken over by the Aborigines Protection Board and renamed Mount Olive Reserve. The missionaries were forced out in 1920 and the reserve and the Home were closed in 1923.
Locations
- 1893 - 1923
- Location - St Clair Aboriginal Mission was located at Carrowbrook, south of Singleton
- Collection Title
- Bartrop family slides relating to the Aborigines Inland Mission, 1909-1930s, 1945-1950, 1971 (1909 - 1971)
- Date Range
- 1909 - 1971
- Reference
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SLIDES 293
[State Library of New South Wales - Manuscripts & Pictures Call Number]
- Contact
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DETAILS
- Collection Title
- Australian Indigenous Ministries Aggregated Collection of Records and Pictorial Material, 1903-2003 (1903 - 2003)
- Date Range
- 1903 - 2003
- Reference
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- Contact
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Please contact a Librarian at State Library of New South Wales:
Postal address: 1 Shakespeare Place, Sydney NSW 2000
Phone: (02) 9273 1414
Email: library@sl.nsw.gov.au
Website: https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/research-and-collections/ask-librarian
DETAILS
21. Group of St Clair Aborigines, near Singleton NSW. First AIM station. c. 1903.
Sunday school scholars, teachers, missionaries. Cherbourg AIM Church [Singleton Home]
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