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Orphanage
Orphanage is a term that was usually applied to institutions offering dormitory style accommodation for children. Often the children who lived in orphanages were not orphans in the traditional sense but rather children who could not live with their families for a variety of reasons.
Clontarf (1901 - 1983)
Collie Boys' Home (1902 - 1920)
Dulhi Gunyah (1909 - 1918)
Holy Child Orphanage (1941 - 1962)
Independent Order of Oddfellows' Orphanage (1905 - 1940)
Methodist Children's Home (1922 - 1959)
New Norcia Mission (1848 - 1974)
Parkerville Children's Home (1909 - 2005)
Perth Boys' Orphanage (1869 - 1876)
Perth Girls' Orphanage (1868 - 1942)
Salvation Army Boys' Home (1918 - 1965)
Salvation Army Girls' Home, Cottesloe (1918 - 1969)
Seaforth Salvation Army Boys' Homes, Gosnells (1920 - 1955)
St Joseph's Catholic Orphanage for Girls (1868 - 1901)
St Joseph's Girls' Orphanage (1901 - 1971)
St Joseph's Native School and Orphanage, New Norcia (1861 - 1974)
St Vincent's Foundling Home (1914 - 1971)
Subiaco Boys' Orphanage (1872 - 1901)
Swan Boys' Orphanage (1876 - 1942)
Swan Homes (1943 - 1959)
Tardun Farm School (1928 - 2008)
Waif's Home, Parkerville (1903 - 1909)

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Last updated: 18 May 2022
Cite this: https://www.findandconnect.gov.au/ref/wa/browse_o_function.htm
First published by the Find & Connect Web Resource Project for the Commonwealth of Australia, 2011

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