Wirrumanu

Run by

• Pallottines (Society of the Catholic Apostolates) (1901 - current)

Related Organisations

• Catholic Diocese of Broome (1897? - current)
  Wirrumanu was administered by the Catholic Diocese of Broome.
• Sisters of St John of God (1895 - current)
  The Sisters of St John of God ran the school at Wirrumanu (Balgo Hills).
  Date: 1956 - 1962

This page was written by Anna Trengove, Leanne Howard and Debra Rosser, last updated 15 February 2023. Sources used to create this entry:

• Information Services, Department for Community Development, Signposts: A Guide for Children and Young People in Care in WA from 1920, 2004 View Publication Details

• Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission and the Australian Conference of Leaders of Religious Institutes, A piece of the story : national directory of records of Catholic organisations caring for children separated from families, November 1999. View Publication Details
• Catholic Church, Catholic Diocese of Broome - Our History, No date. View Publication Details
• Heritage Council of Western Australia, St John of God Convent (fmr), Broome, inHerit: our heritage places, 8 February 2015. Relevance: There is some history of the Sisters of St John of God’s activities in the Kimberleys in the ‘Register of Heritage Places’ (pp.4-10) including work at Beagle Bay, Bidyadanga and Wirrumanu Missions and the Holy Child Orphanage. View Publication Details
• State Records Taskforce, Government of Western Australia, Looking West: A Guide to Aboriginal Sources in Western Australia, 2004. View Publication Details
• Western Australia. Department for Community Welfare, Annual Report: Department for Community Welfare, 1973 - 1984. View Publication Details
• Hall's Creek Mission, Dungog Chronicle: Durham and Gloucester Advertiser, 7 October 1953. View Publication Details
• Society of the Catholic Apostolate (Pallottine Fathers and Brothers), No date. View Publication Details

For more information and to access your records, follow the links below:

Records

• Department of Aboriginal Affairs [predecessors], Records (1886 - 2004)
• Sisters of St John of God, Kimberley, Records (1895)
• Files - General (1899 - 1987)
• Administration Files - Northern District Office [N.D.G Sequence] (1950 - 1974)
• Files - Departmental [Education Department] (1 January 1885 - 31 December 2000)
• Files - Community Welfare ("A" Series), State Records Office of Western Australia (25 August 1908 - 23 December 1990)
• Files - Aborigines Departments (1 January 1926 - 16 June 1972)