Mission children, Mulgoa NSW, c. 1942 - c. 1947, courtesy of Northern Territory Archives Service.
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The Church Missionary Society of Australia was formed in 1916 and operated two homes in New South Wales for Aboriginal children, some accompanied by their mothers, who were evacuated from the Northern Territory and South Australia during World War II. These were the Church Missionary Society Home for Half-Castes at Mulgoa and Milleewa Home at Ashfield.
The Church Missionary Society is an Anglican missionary society founded in London in 1799. Whilst an auxiliary for the Church Missionary Society was established in Sydney in 1825, the Church Missionary Society of Australia was not formed until 1916, after the states of Australia federated.
The Church Missionary Society is now known as CMS Australia. The records of the Church Missionary Society's Northern Territory activities are managed by the Northern Territory Archives Service but permission to access these records should be sought from the Sydney office.
Sources used to compile this entry: 'History', in Church Missionary Society's Website, Church Missionary Society of Australia (CMS), 2010, https://www.cms.org.au/about-us/history/; George, Karen and George, Gary, 'Interstate movement of Northern Territory children (1942-1970s)', in Find & Connect web resource, Find & Connect web resource project for the Commonwealth of Australia, 2013, http://www.findandconnect.gov.au/ref/nt/biogs/YE00088b.htm; George, Karen and George, Gary, 'Croker Island Mission (1940 - 1968)', in Find & Connect web resource, Find & Connect web resource project for the Commonwealth of Australia, 2014, http://www.findandconnect.gov.au/ref/nt/biogs/YE00021b.htm; Correspondence with Church Missionary Society Archivist, 15 December 2011.
Prepared by: Naomi Parry
Created: 29 November 2011, Last modified: 16 June 2014