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New South Wales - Organisation
Brewarrina Aboriginal Station Dormitory (1897 - 1940)
- From
- c. 1897
- To
- c. 1940
- Categories
- Home, Children's Home, Government-run
The Brewarrina Aboriginal Station Dormitory was a dormitory for Aboriginal girls that was attached to the manager's house at Brewarrina Aboriginal Station, an Aborigines Protection Board property 16 kilometres from Brewarrina township. Aboriginal girls from all over New South Wales were sent there for 'training' and discipline, usually from the ages of 14-18 when they were subject to the removal and apprenticeship policies of the Aborigines Protection Board. The dormitory fell into disuse around 1940, when the Protection Board was replaced by the Aborigines Welfare Board, but Brewarrina Station remained a place where Aboriginal people and children were forcibly relocated.
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The Aborigines Protection Association (APA) set up the Brewarrina Aboriginal Station in 1886, after the Brewarrina Reserve was relocated from the riverbanks in the township to a new site further up the Barwon River. The dormitory possibly began operating in this time, as the APA had set up a dormitory at Warangesda. The dormitory was certainly established by the time the Aborigines Protection Board took over the management of Brewarrina in 1897.
Locations
- c. 1897 - c. 1940
- Location - Brewarrina Aboriginal Station Dormitory was located at The Old Mission Road, Brewarrina
- Series Title
- School Files (1876 - 1979)
- Date Range
- 1876 - 1979
- Reference
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NRS-3829
[State Records Authority of New South Wales Series Number]
- Contact
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Please contact the State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales:
Postal Address: PO Box 516, Kingswood NSW 2747
Phone: (02) 9673 1788
Email: info@records.nsw.gov.au
Website: http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/contact-us/contact-us/
DETAILS
- Series Title
- Minute Books, Aborigines Welfare Board (1890 - 1969)
- Date Range
- 1890 - 1969
- Reference
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2
[State Records Authority of New South Wales Series Number]
- Contact
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Please contact the Family Records Unit, Department of Aboriginal Affairs:
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/
DETAILS
- Series Title
- Ward Registers, Board for the Protection of Aborigines (1916 - 1928)
- Date Range
- 1916 - 1928
- Reference
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26
[State Records Authority of New South Wales Series Number]
- Contact
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Please contact the Family Records Unit, Department of Aboriginal Affairs:
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/
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