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South Australia - Publications Details
Resource
Creator
George, Karen
Title
Finding your own way
Type of Work
Guide
Imprint
Nunkuwarrin Yunti of South Australia Inc., 2005
Url
http://nunku.org.au/resources/
Related Entries
Archival Collections
Babies' Home Walkerville Records (1912 - 1968)
Bringing them home oral history project [sound recording] (1998 - 2002)
Farr House Records (1906 - 1983)
Hostel of the Holy Name Records (1947 - 1967)
Section 1:9
The House of Mercy and Retreat for Women Records (1881 - 1975)
Section 1:12
Kennion House Records (1886 - 1983)
Section 1:17
Lady Victoria Buxton Girls Club (1944 - 1960)
Poonindie Mission [records] (1851 - 1890)
Records of Adelaide Children's Hospital (1894? - 1978?)
Records of St John's Boys Town (1941? - 1984?)
Records of the Social Welfare Department and predecessors (1849 - c. 1987)
Records of Umeewarra Mission, Children's Home (1937? - 1995?)
Records related to former Church of England Children's Homes (1860? - 1990)
St Francis House Records (1946 - 1961)
St Mary's Mission of Hope Records (1904 - 1990)
Archival Items
Admission Register Boys Reformatory Magill (1933 - 1943)
Admission Register Boys Reformatory Magill (1926 - 1933)
Boy Farm Apprenticeship Scheme South Australia (1927 - 1928)
Correspondence - Aboriginal Women's Home, North Adelaide (1925 - 1929)
Historical published material, Junior Red Cross Homes (1920? - 1980?)
Immigration encouragement - Government schemes - South Australia - Settlement of 6000 boys (1920 - 1924)
Letter from Professor JB Cleland on the history of Campbell House (1959)
Lutheran Children's Emergency Home [Administrative File] (1966 - 1984)
Record of Admissions to Boys Reformatory (1913 - 1924)
Register of Admissions to the Boys Reformatory, Magill (1898 - 1914)
Register of Admissions to the Reformatory Hulk and Boys Reformatory, Magill (1877 - 1898)
Archival Series
Aboriginal Children sent from Croker Island to Southern institutions (1905? - 1976?)
Aboriginal liaison files - South Australia Youth Training Centre (SAYTC) (1980 - 1999)
Accounts Book - Magill Children's Home/Lentara (1905? - 1976?)
Admission and Discharge registers, Convent of the Good Shepherd "The Pines" (1941 - 1974)
Admission Book St Joseph's Orphanage, Largs Bay (1956 - 1967)
Admission Book St Joseph's Orphanage, Largs Bay (1966 - 1970)
Admission Cards, Colebrook Home (1950s - 1960s)
Admission cards - South Australian Youth Training Centre, later Magill Training Centre (1962 - 1995)
Admission Cards, August 1968-May 1971, St Joseph's Refuge Fullarton (1968 - 1971)
Admission Cards, St Stanislaus House (1950s - 1960s)
Admission Forms, Orphan Home/Farr House (1918 - 1938)
Admission forms, St Vincent de Paul Orphanage (1893 - 1895)
Admission list, St Vincent de Paul Orphanage (26 May 1941)
Admission Records, Sacred Heart Orphanage (1951 - 1979)
Admission Register, Farr House (1934 - 1944)
Admission Register [photocopy], Sacred Heart Orphanage (1951 - 1979)
Admission Register St Joseph's Orphanage, Largs Bay (1906 - 1980)
Admission Register, August 1956-June 1968, St Joseph's Refuge Fullarton (1956 - 1968)
Admission Register, November 1873-August 1956, St Joseph's Refuge Fullarton (1873 - 1956)
Admission Registers, Junior Red Cross Homes (1933 - 1968)
Admission/intake cards - South Australia Youth Remand and Assessment Centre (SAYRAC) (1972 - 1994)
Admittance and Departures, August 1968-June 1971, St Joseph's Refuge Fullarton (1968 - 1971)
Adoption files, Children's Welfare and Public Relief Department and successor agencies (1915 - 2004)
Agreements and correspondence with doctors for the medical treatment of State Children and wards of the Children's Welfare and Public Relief Department (1904 - 1952)
Album of views of Mareeba Babies' Hospital (1938)
Alphabetical lists of children, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1869 - 1969)
Anglican Board of Mission (Australia) - further records (1887 - 1996)
Annual general meetings minutes and related correspondence - Morialta Protestant Children's Home (1946 - 1950)
Annual reports, St Mary's Mission of Hope (1906 - 1947)
Annual Reports - Department for Families and Community Services and predecessor agencies (1971 - 1997)
Annual Reports - Morialta Protestant Children's Home (1925 - 1976)
Annual Reports - Protector of Aborigines and successors (1878 - 1971)
Annual reports of Karingal, The Church of England Youth Hostel Incorporated (1954 - 1963)
Section 1:14
Annual Reports of the Aborigines Protection Board [Aboriginal Affairs Board] (1939 - 1969)
Annual reports of the Adelaide Central Methodist Mission (1910 - 1952)
Annual Reports of the Babies Hospital Association, Mareeba Babies Hospital (1915 - 1951)
Annual Reports of the Department for Family and Community Services and Predecessor Agencies (1971 - 1997)
Annual Reports of the Department of Social Welfare and Aboriginal Affairs (1970 - 1972)
Annual reports of the Orphan Home, Farr House (1899 - 1979)
Section 1:7
Annual Reports of the State Children's Council and the Children's Welfare and Public Relief Department (1887 - 1960)
Annual Reports of the State Children's Council, 1880-1892 (1880 - 1892)
Annual Reports to the District Convention, Lutheran Church South Australia District, Lutheran Children's Emergency Home (1967 - 1983)
Applications by youths for assisted passage as boy migrants - Big Brother Scheme (1927 - 1929)
Applications by youths for assisted passage as farm apprentices - Barwell Boys Scheme (1922 - 1924)
Applications for assisted passage by agricultural labourers (1911 - 1914)
Applications for assisted passage by farm youths, agricultural workers and agricultural settlers (1921 - 1930)
The Australia Lutheran [Periodical], Koonibba Children's Home (1913 - 1966)
Australian Red Cross, South Australian Division - Photographs (1938 - 1984)
Babies Home Minutes, Kate Cocks Memorial Babies Home (1940 - 1948)
Barton Vale, South Australia [Photographs], Barton Vale Girls' Home (1922? - 1947?)
Beth McMenamie Records, Vaughan House (1955 - 1972)
Blank application form for St Francis House (1946? - 1959?)
Case files relating to Aboriginal families and individuals, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1950 - 1971)
Case files relating to deceased Aborigines, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1950 - 1971)
Case histories of children in the care of the Department, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1938 - 1962)
Child Endowment Claim forms, The Babies Home Walkerville (1941 - 1944)
Section 1:3
Children forwarded to the Roman Catholic Orphanage 1867-1869 (index) [Admission Register] (1867 - 1869)
Children's files - Morialta Protestant Children's Home (1943 - 1973)
Client files, Social Welfare Department and its successors (1966 - 2001)
Conduct record, Boys Reformatory, Magill (1933 - 1945)
Conference Committee [Minutes], Kate Cocks Memorial Babies Home (1948 - 1954)
Conference Committee 1957-62 and Conference Committee 1962-68 [Minutes], Kate Cocks Memorial Babies Home (1957 - 1968)
Corporate files, three-tiered numeric series - Community Welfare Department and successor agencies (1918 - 2008)
Correspondence, Mareeba Babies Hospital (1932 - 1945)
Correspondence, Catholic Girls Home Parkside (1924 - 1938)
Correspondence 'DBO' files - Destitute Board Office, Destitute Asylum (1876 - 1927)
Correspondence filed by name of legatee, Waverley House (1941 - 1979)
Correspondence files ('AO' later 'AD' files) - Aborigines Office and successor (1866 - 1969)
Correspondence files ('CW & PRD' and 'SW' files) -Children's Welfare and Public Relief Department and successors (1927 - c. 1979)
Correspondence files ('SCD' files) - State Children's Department (1887 - 1927)
Correspondence files, annual single number series - Colonial Surgeon's Office and successor agencies (1850 - 1979)
Daily returns of children in the Industrial Schools, Edwardstown Industrial School (1921 - 1939)
Daily statistics of children in Departmental institutions, Children's Welfare and Public Relief Department (1952 - 1963)
Discharge Book, St Vincent de Paul Orphanage (1866 - 1920)
Eden Park Mt Barker Book 1 [Admission Register] (1960 - 1979)
Eden Park Mt Barker Book 2 [Admission Register] (1977 - 1982)
Eden Park Mt Barker Box 1 [Admission Cards] (1962 - 1981)
Eden Park Mt Barker Box 2 [Admission Cards] (1957 - 1982)
Education - Register of Prosecutions, Education Department (1928 - 1959)
Faith Thomas [Photographs] (1929 - 1957)
Far North Children's Health Scheme - Aboriginal patients' records, Warrawee (1970 - 1971)
Far North Children's Health Scheme - Warrawee Private Hospital Registers (1967 - 1968)
Far North Children's Health Scheme Records, Warrawee (1969 - 1974)
Far North Children's Health Scheme Records, Warrawee (1947 - 1974)
Files relating to children under departmental supervision, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1920 - 1950s)
Files relating to children under departmental supervision, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1950 - 1978)
Fullarton [Admission Cards], Salvation Army Girls' Home (1967 - 1986)
Fullarton [Admission Cards], Salvation Army Girls' Home (1963 - 1964)
Fullarton [Admission Cards], Salvation Army Girls' Home (1959)
Fullarton [Admission Cards], Salvation Army Girls' Home (1957 - 1964)
Fullarton Girls' Home and Child Care (SA) [Social Files] (1901? - 1986?)
Fullarton Girls' Home, South Australia [Miscellaneous records] (1901? - 1986?)
Fullarton Girls' Home, South Australia [Photographs] (1900 - 1980s)
General Administrative Dockets (permanent), Department for Community Welfare and successors (1980s - 1990s)
General Administrative Dockets (permanent), Department for Community Welfare (1974 - 1990)
Girls Home [Minutes], Kate Cocks Memorial Babies Home (1961 - 1967)
Girls Home [Minutes], Kate Cocks Memorial Babies Home (1948 - 1961)
Goodwood Orphanage Oral History (1993 - 1994)
Goodwood Orphanage Oral History - associated material, Photographs and video (1866? - 1975?)
Historical information, Kate Cocks Memorial Babies Home (1930s - 1970s)
Index to admissions to the Industrial School - Destitute Board (1863 - 1885)
Index to correspondence files - Colonial Surgeon's Office and successor agencies (1895 - 1959)
Index to the War Cry [Periodical], Salvation Army Magazine (1883 - )
Indigenous Children, Lentara (Magill Children's Home) (1950s - 1970s)
Indigenous Children, Lentara (Magill Children's Home) [Photographs] (1950s - 1970s)
Individual Files, Legacy Club of Adelaide (1945? - 1964?)
Individual files, Convent of the Good Shepherd "The Pines" (1942? - 1974?)
Interview with Grace Warlimont and Kathleen Grimmett by Beth M Robertson, Vaughan House (1997)
Junior Red Cross Committee minutes (1925 - 1935)
Junior Red Cross Home Committee Minutes (1935 - 1938)
Kate Cocks Babies' Home - Photographs (1950)
Kate Cocks Memorial Babies Home Records (1940s - 1980s)
Kent Town Boys' Home (SAust) [Photographs] (1930s)
Kent Town Boys' Home History Book (1932 - 1972)
Koonibba Children's Home Record Book (1938 - 1953)
Koonibba Church Register (1902 - 1988)
Koonibba SA Personal Records Volume 2 (1900? - 2000?)
Koonibba SA Personal Records Volume 3 (1900? - 2000?)
Lists of state wards, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1960)
The Live Heart [Motion Picture Film], St Francis House (1953)
Log Books - South Australia Youth Remand and Assesment Centre (SAYRAC), and others (1961 - 1999)
Log books - South Australia Youth Training Centre, South Australian Youth Remand and Assessment Centre, and predecessors (1961 - 1996)
Lying-in Home Register, April 1914-May 1923, St Joseph's Refuge Fullarton (1914 - 1923)
Lying-in Home Register, June 1912-November 1960, St Joseph's Refuge Fullarton (1912 - 1960)
Lying-in Home Register, May 1907-May 1912, St Joseph's Refuge Fullarton (1907 - 1912)
Magill Children's Home/Lentara [Photographs] (1905? - 1976?)
Mandates committing children to the custody of the Department, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1880 - 1930)
Matron's reports, Kate Cocks Memorial Babies Home (1944 - 1956)
Matron's Reports, Farr House (1914 - 1980)
Matron's reports, Northcote Home (1972 - 1973)
Memoirs and other writings of Reverend Smith (1946? - 1989?)
Minutes, Kate Cocks Memorial Babies Home (1940s - 1970s)
Minutes - Aborigines' Protection Board (1940 - 1963)
Minutes - Destitute Board (1849 - 1927)
Minutes - Gentlemen's Committee, State Children's Council (1903 - 1911)
Minutes - Ladies' Committee, State Children's Council (1911 - 1916)
Minutes - State Children's Council, later the Children's Welfare and Public Relief Board (1886 - 1965)
Minutes and papers of Waverley and Wentworth House Committee (1945? - 1964?)
Minutes of Committee responsible for various Legacy properties (Wentworth House and Waverley House) (1945? - 1964?)
Minutes of Hostel Committee, Legacy Club of Adelaide (1972? - 1979?)
Minutes of Management Committee, Babies Home Walkerville (1920 - 1940)
Minutes of Management Committee, Farr House (1880 - 1966)
Minutes of the Babies Hospital Association, Mareeba Babies Hospital (1912 - 1951)
Minutes of the Babies Hospital House Committee, Mareeba Babies Hospital (1915 - 1939)
Minutes of the Board of Governors - Morialta Protestant Children's Homes (1942 - 1969)
Minutes of the board of management, Kate Cocks Memorial Babies Home (1948 - 1964)
Minutes of the Management Committee, Karingal Youth Hostel (1954 - 1963)
Section 1:14
Minutes of the of the Board of 'Wiltja' Hostel, Millswood (1970 - 1973)
Minutes, St Vincent de Paul Orphanage (1887 - 1890)
Miscellaneous correspondence, Sacred Heart Orphanage (1972 - 1977)
Miscellaneous correspondence and documents, St Joseph's Orphanage Largs Bay (1923 - 1970)
Miscellaneous correspondence and documents, St Joseph's Orphanage Largs Bay (1903 - 1980)
Miscellaneous Correspondence and General Papers, St Mary's Mission of Hope (1930 - 1952)
Miscellaneous Correspondence and other documents, Karingal Youth Hostel (1960 - 1964)
Section 1:14
Miscellaneous correspondence and reports, St John's Boys Town (1893 - 1962)
Miscellaneous correspondence, reports and other documents, St Joseph's Refuge Fullarton (1897 - 1970)
Miscellaneous documents, St Stanislaus House (1955)
Miscellaneous files including children's releases - Morialta Protestant Children's Home (1960 - 1970)
Miscellaneous Records, Girls' Friendly Society (c. 1970 - c. 1990)
Miscellaneous records, St Vincent de Paul Orphanage (1890s - 1970s)
Morialta Children's Home Miscellaneous Records, Social Welfare Department (1924? - 1974?)
Mortality record book of children in the care of the Department, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1927 - 1974)
Mt Barker Boys' Home (SAust) [Photographs] (1917 - 1930s)
Mt Barker Boys' Home (SAust) [Social Files] (1900? - 1982?)
Mt Barker Boys' Home Reports (1960s - 1980s)
News clipping books, Private Records of John Smith (1946? - 1959?)
Nominal List of Orphan and Deserted Children Taken Out of the Destitute Asylum (1855 - 1861)
Northcote Home Inc: Daily register of admittance and discharge of children, number of children and TB cases (1964 - 1973)
Northcote Home Inc: Minutes of the board of management (1927 - 1974)
Northcote Home Inc: Monthly register of children at the Home (1969 - 1973)
Office Administration Files and Warrawee Hospital (1970s)
The Open Door [Motion Picture], Morialta Protestant Children's Home (1949 - 1950)
Orphan Home Admissions (1898 - 1925)
Section 1:5
Papers re Waverley House/Hostel (1945? - 1964?)
Papers relating to 'Wiltja' Hostel (1965 - 1973)
Papers relating to Wiltja Hostel, Millswood (1969 - 1982)
Personal disposition advice forms - Magill Training Centre (1940 - 1996)
Personal disposition advice forms - South Australia Youth Training Centre (SAYTC) (1978 - 1993)
Photographs, Koonibba Children's Home (c. 1913 - c. 1963)
Photographs, Convent of the Good Shepherd 'The Pines' (1942? - 1974?)
Photographs, Private Records of John Smith (1946 - 1980s)
Photographs, Oodnadatta Children's Home (1924 - 1964)
Photographs, St Joseph's Orphanage Largs Bay (1903? - 1980?)
Photographs, Sacred Heart Orphanage (1940? - 1979?)
Photographs - Morialta Protestant Children's Home (1924 - 1957)
Photographs and albums, Warrawee (1930s)
Photographs and posters, Legacy Club of Adelaide (1945? - 1964?)
Photographs of AIM Institutions and Miscellaneous (1930s - 1950s)
Photographs of Departmental institutions, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1945 - 1970)
Photographs, St Vincent De Paul Orphanage (1866? - 1975?)
Property and personal disposition records - South Australia Youth Remand and Assessment Centre (1947 - 1996)
Punishment Book, Boys Reformatory, Magill (1911 - 1934)
Records of the Aborigines' Friends' Association (1925 - 1976)
Reformatory, St John's via Kapunda, 1897-1909 [Correspondence], Catholic Girls Reformatory Kapunda
Register of Admissions - Industrial School, Boys Reformatory School, and Girls Reformatory School (1862 - 1882)
Register of Admissions - Industrial School, Edwardstown (1903 - 1908)
Register of admissions - Industrial School, Magill and Edwardstown (1886 - 1929)
Register of Admissions - Salvation Army Probationary School for Boys, Mount Barker (1900 - 1928)
Register of admissions to the Destitute Asylum, Adelaide (1870 - 1924)
Register of Admissions to the Methodist Home, Largs Bay (1905 - 1976)
Register of Admissions to the Reformatory Hulk, Fitzjames (1879 - 1893)
Register of Admissions to the Roman Catholic Boy's Reformatory, Brooklyn Park (1895 - 1908)
Register of infants born in the Destitute Asylum (1880 - 1932)
Register of New Committals (1931 - 1968)
Register of residents at Wiltja Hostel (1973 - 1975)
Release orders under the Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act, 1946, Social Welfare Department (1950 - 1960)
Returns of children in the care of the Department, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1927 - 1928)
Rough register of children available for adoption, Social Welfare Department and Predecessors (1938 - 1941)
Rough register of children in the care of the Department, State Children's Department (1920 - 1921)
SA Places and Events [Motion Picture] (1936)
Scrapbooks, Junior Red Cross Homes (1930 - 1959)
Scrapbooks, Junior Red Cross Homes (1938 - 1984)
Social files, Barton Vale Girls' Home (1922? - 1947?)
St Joseph's Girls' Refuge, Fullarton Admission cards, St Joseph's Refuge Fullarton (1942 - 1956)
St Joseph's Girls' Refuge, Fullarton, Permanent Residents [Admission Cards], St Joseph's Refuge Fullarton (1940s - 1970s)
St Vincent de Paul Admission Register, Book 1 (1875 - 1929)
St Vincent de Paul Admission Register, Book 2 (1920 - 1949)
St Vincent de Paul Admission Register, Book 3 (labelled 3B) (1875 - 1975)
St Vincent de Paul Orphanage, Burnside [Admission Register] (1872 - 1889)
St Vincent de Paul Orphanage, Burnside [Admission Register] (1872 - 1883)
State Children's Department Lying-in Home Register, August 1901-May 1907, St Joseph's Refuge Fullarton (1901 - 1907)
State Ward Index Cards, State Children's Department and successors (1900 - 1992)
Synodical Reports Proceedings of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Australia [ELSA], SA District, Koonibba Children's Home (1900 - 1966)
Visitors' book - Estcourt House (1894 - 1955)
Glossary Terms
Aboriginal Child Placement Principle (1983 - 2009)
Legislation
Destitute Persons Relief Act 1866 (1867 - 1872)
Maintenance Act Amendment Act 1958 (1958 - 1972)
Organisations
Aboriginal Women's Home, North Adelaide (1926 - c. 1975)
Aborigines' Advancement League (1938 - 2008?)
Aborigines' Friends' Association (1858 - 2000)
Aborigines Protection Board, South Australian Government (1940 - 1963)
Adelaide Catholic Archdiocesan Archives (1945 - )
Adelaide Central Methodist Mission (c. 1901 - 1977)
Adelaide Children's Hospital (1876 - 1989)
Adelaide Maternity Home (1893 - 1914)
Albara Road Cottage (1982 - )
Allambi Girls' Hostel (1947 - 1977)
Anglican Church of Australia (1981 - )
Anglican Social Welfare Bureau (1981 - 1988)
Anglicare SA (1997 - )
Australian Board of Mission (1850 - 1995)
Australian Inland Mission (1912 - 1977)
The Australian Red Cross (1914 - )
The Babies' Home Walkerville (1912 - 1945)
The Babies' Hospital Association (1913 - 1951)
Babies' Hospital, St Peters (1915 - 1917)
Baptist Union of South Australia (1863 - )
Barton Vale Girls' Home (1922 - 1947)
Bedford Park Boys' Training Centre (1961 - 1965)
Blair Athol Unit (1982 - ?)
The Boarding section of the Salesian School (1954 - 1984)
Bon Agor House, St Vincent de Paul Group Homes (1975 - 1989s)
Bonython Cottage (1980 - 1987)
Boys' Probationary School (1900 - 1945)
Boys' Reformatory Hulk, Fitzjames (1880 - 1891)
Boys Reformatory, Magill (1891 - 1967)
Braemore Cottage (1980s - 1996?)
The Bridge Industrial Home (1934 - 1977)
The Bridge Rescue Home (1899 - 1934)
Brighton Industrial School (1867 - 1869)
Brookman Cottage (1985 - 1989)
Brookway Park (1965 - 1978)
Brookway Unit (c. 1984 - 1992)
Brothers of St John the Baptist (c. 1892 - c. 1941)
Campbell House Farm School, Meningie (1959 - 1963)
Campbelltown Community Unit (1995 - )
Cann Cottage (1957 - c. 1977)
Cann Home (1924 - 1957)
Catholic Boys' Hostel, Parkside (1977 - 1979)
Catholic Girls' Home Parkside (1930 - 1943)
Catholic Girls' Reformatory, Kapunda (1897 - 1909)
Cavan Training Centre (1993 - 2012)
Cecil Street Cottage (1980s - c. 1995)
Centacare Catholic Family Services (1992 - )
Central Depot (1900 - 1965)
Central Region Admission Unit (1979 - 1980)
Cheltenham Cottage Home (1976 - 1980s)
Children, Youth and Family Services, Department for Families and Communities, South Australian Government (2004 - 2006)
The Children's Home at Walkerville (1886 - 1904)
Children's Welfare and Public Relief Board (1927 - 1966)
Christian Brethren/Open Brethren Assemblies of South Australia
Christies Beach Cottage (1976 - c. 1985)
The Church of England Boys' Home at Walkerville (1903 - 1955)
Church of England Diocesan Mission House (1945 - 1949)
Church of England in Australia and Tasmania (1788 - 1981)
Churches of Christ (1840s - )
Claring-bould Cottage (c. 1982 - c. 1995)
Clark Cottage, Clarence Park (1963 - 1979)
Colebrook Home (1927 - 1981)
Colebrook Tji Tji Tjuta (c. 1981 - )
Colton Cottage (1987 - 1994?)
Colton Cottage, Thorngate (1965 - 1982)
Congregational Union of South Australia (1837 - 1977)
Convent of the Good Shepherd "The Pines" (1942 - 1974)
Cullford Cottage (1980s - 1995?)
Curtice Cottage (1957 - 1977)
Dartmouth Family Home, Port Augusta (1973 - ?)
Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul (1926 - )
Davenport House (1964 - 1977)
Department for Community Welfare, South Australian Government (1972 - 1990)
Department for Family and Community Services, South Australian Government (1990 - 1998)
Department of Aboriginal Affairs, South Australian Government (1963 - 1970)
Department of Social Welfare, South Australian Government (1966 - 1970)
Department of Social Welfare and Aboriginal Affairs, South Australian Government (1970 - 1972)
Destitute Asylum (1851 - c. 1917)
Destitute Board, South Australian Government (1849 - 1886)
Dew Street Cottage (1986 - 1991)
Diocesan Archives Centre, Anglican Diocese of Adelaide (1998 - )
Dismus House, Good Samaritans, Greek Orthodox (1980)
Drapers' Hall (1962 - 1981)
Dunant House (1970? - c. 1995)
Edwardstown Industrial School (1898 - 1949)
Elizabeth Downs Cottage (1976 - 1980s)
Enfield Community Unit (1990 - )
Estcourt House (1894 - 1989)
Fairbridge Society Inc (London) (1909 - 2011)
Family Home, Mount Gambier (1972 - ?)
Far North Children's Health Scheme (1957 - 1975?)
Farr Cottage (1982 - 1996?)
Farr House (1935 - 1982)
Fullarton Children's Home (1969 - 1986)
Fullarton Cottage, Myrtle Bank (1970 - 1979)
Fuller Street Cottage (1976? - 1982)
Garden Cottage (1976 - 1984)
Gerard Mission (1946 - 1974)
Gilles Plains Assessment Unit (1992 - )
Gilles Plains Community Unit (1979 - 1990)
Girls' Friendly Society (1875 - )
Girls' Friendly Society Lodge (1913 - 1975)
Girls' Probationary School (1901 - 1945)
Girls' Reformatory, Edwardstown (1891 - 1898)
Girls Reformatory, Magill (1881 - 1891)
Glandore Boys' Home (1966 - 1973)
Glandore Children's Home (1958 - 1966)
Glandore Community Unit (1990 - 1994)
Glandore Family Home (1972 - 1975)
Glandore Industrial School (1949 - 1958)
Glandore Unit (1975 - 1980)
Good Samaritan Archives (1857? - )
Good Samaritan Sisters (1866 - )
Good Shepherd Archive (1983 - )
Greenslade Home (1912 - 1976)
Gurney Street Legacy Hostels (1964 - c. 1967)
Hannah Buckley Home (1980 - 1987)
Hay Cottage, Lockleys (1968 - 1979)
Home Missions Department of the Methodist Conference (1901? - 1950?)
Hostel of the Holy Name (1949 - 1975)
House of Mercy and Retreat for Women (1881 - 1974)
Hove Cottage (1976 - 1986)
I'Anson Cottage (1957 - c. 1977)
Ilfracombe, Boys Reformatory (1869 - 1880)
Independent Order of Oddfellows (1860s - )
James Brown Memorial Trust (1892 - )
Joyville Cottage (1972 - 1986?)
Junior Red Cross Home, Glenelg (1959 - 1968)
Junior Red Cross Home, Henley Beach (1933 - 1946)
Kali Boys' Hostel (1971 - 1972)
Kandarik Cottage, Somerton Park (1975 - 1988)
Karingal Youth Hostel (1952 - 1964)
Kate Cocks Memorial Babies' Home (1954 - 1976)
Kennion Cottage (1984 - 1990)
Kennion House (1955 - 1982)
Klemzig Family Home (1973 - 1980)
Kolbe Cottage Home (1982 - )
Koonibba Children's Home (1913 - 1963)
Kumanka Boys' Hostel (1946 - 1980)
Kurbingai Hostel (1958 - 1962)
Kurinda Cottage (1981 - )
Lady Hore-Ruthven Junior Red Cross Home (1946 - 1959)
Lady Norrie Junior Red Cross Children's Home (1947 - 1959)
Lady Victoria Buxton Girls' Club (1898 - 1955)
Largs Bay Cottage (1976 - c. 1985)
Largs Bay Cottage Home (1970 - ?)
Legacy Club of Adelaide Inc (1928 - )
Lentara (1960 - 1977)
Little Para House Youth Shelter (1978 - 1984?)
Lochiel Park Boys' Training Centre (1958 - 1995)
Lochiel Park Community Unit (1995 - 2008?)
Louise Place (c. 2001 - )
Luprina Hostel (1971 - )
Lutheran Archives
The Lutheran Church of Australia (1838 - )
Lutheran Emergency Home for Children (1966 - 1984)
Lutheran Girls' Hostel, College Park (1959 - 1982?)
Magill Industrial School (1869 - 1898)
Magill Training Centre (1993 - 2012)
Malvern Cottage (1972 - 1980)
Mansfield House
Mareeba Babies' Hospital (1917 - 1960)
Mareeba Children's Annex of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (1960 - c. 1969)
McBride Hospital (1975 - 1986)
McBride Maternity Hospital (1914 - 1975)
McNally Training Centre (1967 - 1979)
Merrilama Cottage, Glenelg (1960 - 1979)
Methodist Children's Home (1905 - 1924)
Methodist Children's Homes (1924 - 1960)
Minda Home (1911 - 1976)
Minda Home for Weak-Minded Children (1898 - 1911)
Minda Inc. (1976 - )
Minnie Maughan Cottage (1955 - 1980?)
Montrose Cottage (1986 - 1995?)
Morada Cottage, Somerton Park (1975 - 1979)
Morialta Children's Homes Incorporated (1972 - 1974)
Morialta Protestant Children's Home (1924 - 1972)
Morialta Protestant Children's Home, Board of Management (1924 - 1974)
Nidlandi Hostel (1974 - 1981)
Nindee Hostel (1971 - )
Ningana Community Unit (1979 - 1984?)
North Adelaide Community Unit (1990 - 1997)
Northcote Home (1928 - 1973)
Northern Region Admission Unit (1979 - 1990)
Northern Region Group Home (1980 - ?)
Oodnadatta Children's Home (1924 - 1974)
Oodnadatta Hostel (1971 - 1986)
Ooldea Mission (1933 - 1952)
Orana Cottage Home, St Vincent de Paul Group Homes (1975 - 1980)
Order of the Good Shepherd Sisters (c. 1863 - )
The Orphan Home (1860 - 1935)
Parkside Hostel (2001 - )
Pleasant Avenue Cottage (1975 - 1979)
Poonindie Mission (1851 - 1894)
Port Lincoln Family Home (1973 - 1980)
Port Pirie Catholic Diocesan Office (1887 - )
Port Pirie Cottage (1962 - 1972)
Port Pirie Family Home (1972 - 1980)
Professional Standards Office Records Service of the Catholic Church (c. 1997 - )
Pybus Family Home, Port Augusta (1972 - 1980)
Quambi Nursing Home (1913 - 1915)
Ragless Avenue Cottage (1983 - 1985)
Reception Cottage, Glandore/Somerton Park (1973 - 1979)
Redruth Girls' Reformatory (1897 - 1922)
Regency Park Community Unit (1997 - )
Roberts Cottage (1964 - 1980s)
Roberts Home (1921 - 1954)
Rose Cottage (1983 - 1993)
Rose Street Family Connections Unit (1990 - 1993)
Ross Cottage (1984 - 1993)
SA Protestant Federation (c. 1920 - )
Sacred Heart Orphanage (1940 - 1979)
Salesians of Don Bosco (1922 - )
Salesians of Don Bosco, Province Centre Archives (1922? - )
The Salvation Army (1829 - )
The Salvation Army Australia Southern Territory Territorial Archives and Museum (2000? - )
The Salvation Army Boys' Home, Kent Town (1929 - 1972)
The Salvation Army Boys' Home, Mount Barker (1945 - 1982)
The Salvation Army Girls' Home, Fullarton (1945 - 1969?)
The Salvation Army Heritage Centre, Archives and Museum ( - 2012?)
Salvation Army Young Women's Hostel (1922 - 1988)
Seaford Youth Support Unit (1980 - ?)
Seaforth Convalescent Home (1921 - 1946)
Seaforth Home (1946 - 1975)
Seanachai Cottage Home (1988 - 1997)
Sisters of Mercy, Adelaide Congregation (1880 - 2011)
Sisters of St Joseph (1866 - )
Sisters of St Joseph Archives, Adelaide (1866? - )
Sisters of the Community of the Holy Name (c. 1888 - )
Sisters of the Resurrection (1891 - )
Slade Cottage, Glandore/Somerton Park (1973 - 1988)
Smith Street Cottage (1976 - 1984)
South Australian Youth Remand and Assessment Centre (1979 - 1993)
South Australian Youth Training Centre (1979 - 1993)
Southern Region Admission Unit (1979 - c. 1990)
Southern Region Group Home (1979 - 1990)
Spence Cottage, Kensington Gardens (1963 - 1980)
St Francis House (1946 - c. 1961)
St John the Baptist Home for Boys (1898 - 1941)
St John's Boys Town (1941 - 1954)
St John's Cottage Home (1985 - 1988)
St Joseph's Children's Home (1969 - 1980)
St Joseph's Home (2001 - )
St Joseph's Orphanage Largs Bay (1907? - 1960s)
St Joseph's Refuge (1868 - c. 2001)
St Joseph's Sanatorium, Largs Bay (1903 - 1907?)
St Mary's Mission of Hope (1904 - 1953)
St Monica's Cottage Home (1985 - 1987)
St Stanislaus House (1956 - 1978)
St Vincent de Paul Group Home (2001 - )
St Vincent de Paul Orphanage (1866 - 1975)
St Vincent's Trust Endowment Society
State Children's Council (1886 - 1927)
State Library of South Australia
State Records of South Australia (1919 - )
Stirling Cottage, St Peters (1962 - 1979)
Struan Farm School, Naracoorte (1947 - 1969)
Stuart House Boys' Hostel (1964 - 1990)
Sturt Community Unit (1990 - 1995)
Tanderra Girls' Home (1952 - 1973)
Territorial Social Programme branch of The Salvation Army (? - 2012)
Tintoo Cottage, Somerton Park (1975 - 1979)
Toorak Gardens Boys' Hostel (1967 - 1972)
Umeewarra Mission Children's Home (1937 - 1964)
Umeewarra Mission Home, Davenport Reserve (1964 - 1995)
Umeewarra Nguraritja
Unit Living, Marion (1974 - 1990)
United Aborigines Mission (1895 - 2020)
United Aborigines Mission Archives (1895? - 2019?)
Uniting Communities (2012 - )
Vaughan House (1947 - 1979)
Wanslea Children's Home (c. 1946 - 1980s)
Warrawee, Grange (1950 - 1975)
Waverley Hostel (1972 - 1988)
Waverley House (1946 - 1964)
Wentworth House (1945 - 1960?)
Western Region Admission Unit (1980 - 1986)
Wiltja Hostel (1956 - 1978)
Windana Remand Home (1965 - 1975)
Women's Australian National Services (1940 - 1997)
Women's Welfare Department of the Methodist Conference (1936 - 1977?)
Woodville Assessment Unit (1990 - 1992)
Woorabinda Hostel (and Campsite) (1968 - 1993)
Yoorana Cottage, St Vincent de Paul Group Homes (1975 - 1989)
Places
First Exhibition Building, Adelaide (1860 - c. 1886)
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