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Please contact the Professional Standards Office Records Service for an application form and information regarding procedures and conditions with regard to accessing information from records held or managed by this office.
Information is open to former residents or family members who can prove their relationship to the resident.
The Professional Standards Office does not charge any fees to former residents of Catholic Homes seeking their records.
Records
The Register begins with an alphabetical list of names with page references. A number of pages follow with information on 'first communion', baptisms and confirmations, 1906-1940s. Alphabetical listings of names and details in letter tabbed sections follow.
The ledger is then divided into columns over two pages. Left hand page (date at top): (1) Number, (2) Child's name, (3) Age/Date of birth,(4) Male, (5) Female, (6) Date of Admission, (7) Date of Leaving. Right hand page: (8) Parent's name, (9) Address, (10) Religion, (11) Remarks. Notes on contents - Different handwriting indicates different record keeper. Amount and type of information dependent on record keeper. Date range runs 1906-1958 then gap of missing pages (p.133-143). Entries begin again 1969. Two loose pages at back titled 'Record of parents and children's ages 1925' give admission date, family name, father's and mother's names, children's names and birth dates, address. (4&5) Male/Female: In 1943 M and F columns changed to Place of birth and Religion respectively. (8) Parent's names often absent in earlier years. Later entries have more information. (10) Religion from 1950s also includes 'Sacraments'. (11) Remarks include: discharge from home - who with, when and where to; whether parents are alive or dead; baptism; holidays; readmissions and transfers to other homes; character and other information re parents; circumstances of child's admission; adoption or fostering of child; health of child. Only one 1950s entry identified as Aboriginal. Not all entries have remarks.
Quantity: 1 ledger
