Our Babies Home

Run by

• Society for Providing Homes for Neglected Children (1887 - current)
  Date: 1894 - 1904

Related Organisations

• Our Children's Home, Liverpool (1887 - 1936)
  Children from Our Babies home were sent to Our Children's Home when they reached the age of four
• Rockdale Babies Home (1894 - 1976)
  The children from Our Babies Home, run by the Society for Providing Homes for Neglected Children, were transferred to Rockdale Babies Home in 1904.
  Date: 1904 -

This page was written by Naomi Parry, last updated 15 February 2023. Sources used to create this entry:

• Radi, Heather, Ardill, George Edward (1857-1945), Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1979 View Publication Details
• Thornton, Bruce, George Edward Ardill and the Sydney Rescue Work Society (now Communicare Sydney) [also titled "Haste to the Rescue"], 2008 View Publication Details
• 'Sydney Rescue Work Society' (13 September 1902). Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser, p.6. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article132359509 (accessed September 2019);
  Browning Roe (1852) Plan of valuable property situated in Parramatta Street and Newtown Road [cartographic material]. Retrieved from https://digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?embedded=true&toolbar=false&dps_pid=FL3788834 (accessed September 2019).

• Sydney Rescue Work Society/Society for Providing Homes for Neglected Children, The Rescue: official organ of the Sydney Rescue Work Society and Society for Providing Homes for Neglected Children, 1880 - 1910. View Publication Details
• A Babies Home, The Daily Telegraph, 15 October 1896. View Publication Details

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Records

• Admission books, Rockdale Babies Home (November 1894 - July 1973)