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Tasmania - Archival Series

Register of Children Admitted and Discharged from the Male and Female Orphan School (1828 - 1863)

From
1828
To
1863
Website
http://search.archives.tas.gov.au/default.aspx?detail=1&type=S&id=SWD28
Reference No
SWD28
Legal Status
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office Series Number

The Register of Children Admitted and Discharged from the Male and Female Orphan School gives the child's name, age, date admitted, parents' names and ships of arrival, dates of removal, and religions. It includes general remarks. In general, boys and girls were entered at opposite ends of the book. However young boys were indexed and listed in the girls' register.

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Prepared by: Caroline Evans