Please contact the State Library of Western Australia:
Postal address: 25 Francis Street, Perth WA 6000
Phone: (08) 9427 3111
Email:info@slwa.wa.gov.au
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Quote this number to access your records: State Library of Western Australia Call Number, MN 1621
These records are held by State Library of Western Australia (c. 1889 - current).
‘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.