'Papers, 1948-1997' is a series of items donated by Oliver Cosgrove to the State Library of Western Australia in 1998. Oliver Cosgrove was sent as a child migrant to Western Australia as one of many children in the post-war Catholic migration scheme. The items are described in more detail in a manuscript note.
Available for reference, not for loan.
According to the State Library of Western Australia catalogue, this contains:
Correspondence with Child Migrants Trust (U.K.), Catholic Welfare Council, and Catholic Bishop's Conference of England and Wales Social Welfare Committee, and VOICES; correspondence relating to Clontarf and Castledare orphanages; file of correspondence, submissions and research notes relating to the Select Committee into Child Migration; file of correspondence and other papers relating to search for his own family in Ireland; records of the British Federation of Social Workers relating to child migration; records relating to the WA Institutions Reconciliations Trust.
Prepared by: Debra Rosser
Created: 27 July 2012, Last modified: 24 February 2015