Book

Author

Whittington, Vera

Title

Sister Kate: a life dedicated to children in need of care

Imprint

University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, Western Australia, 1999

ISBN/ISSN

1875560998

Description

'Sister Kate: a life dedicated to children in need of care' is a well-researched and sympathetic history of Sister Kate Clutterbuck and the organisations she founded: Parkerville Children's Home and the Children's Cottage Homes in Cottesloe and Queen's Park. The author has drawn on a range of sources, including letters, newspaper articles, government documents, interviews and Sister Kate's correspondence. People's pleasant memories of life in Sister Kate's are included and there are many photographs.

Related Entries

Events

• Royal Commission to Enquire into and Report Upon [inter alia] the Administration of the Aborigines Department and the Condition of the Natives, State of Western Australia (1904? - 1905)
• Royal Commission to Investigate, Report and Advise upon Matters in Relation to the Condition and Treatment of Aborigines 1935, State of Western Australia (1934? - 1935)

Organisations

• Aborigines Department, State of Western Australia (1926 - 1936)
• Child Welfare Department, State of Western Australia (1927 - 1972)
• Children's Cottage Home (1933 - 1935)
• Children's Cottage Home Incorporated (1935 - 1948)

  p.433

• Community of the Sisters of the Church (1908 - )

  p.75.

• Girls' High School, Kalgoorlie (1902 - 1916)

  p.112

• Greenbushes Hostel (1942 - 1946)
• Kenwick Farm (1947 - 1961)
• Malcolm Street Receiving Home (1907)

  pp.131, 135

• Manguri (1988 - 2002)
• Memorial Cottage, Roleystone (1942 - 1944)
• Moore River Native Settlement (1918 - 1951)
• Parkerville Children's Home (1909 - 2005)

  pp.157-158; 436-438

• Parkerville Children's Home Incorporated (1925 - 2005)

  pp.234, 260, 437-438

• Perth College (1902 - )

  pp.66, 73, 85

• Presbyterian Church (1879 - 1977)

  PP.439-440

• Sister Kate's Children's Cottage Home (1934 - 1980)

  p. 433; 439-440

• Sister Kate's Children's Home Inc (1948 - 1955)

  p.433

• Sisters of the Church (1901 - 1908)

  pp.63, 65-66, 69-70, 73-76, 78, 82-83, 112, 131, 135.

• St Peter's Boys' School, Fremantle (1903)

  pp.78, 83.

• Tower House (1901 - 1903)

  pp.65-66, 73, 78.

• Uniting Church in Australia (Synod of Western Australia) (1977 - )
• Waif's Home, Parkerville (1903 - 1909)

  pp.73, 85, 88, 91, 104-105, 131

Related Photos

isRelated

Title

Sister Kate and children, ca.1930

Type

Image

Date

1930?

Source

Photographs of Miss P.K. Lefroy and people at or connected with Sister Kate's Parkerville, State Library of Western Australia

Details