This is a photo of the front of the Marella Group Home at St Clair. It shows a brick single-storey house somewhat obscured by gardens, with a garage with a curved doorway on the right hand side.
This is a video featuring records in the NSW state archives collection, an Admission Register from the Protestant Orphan School when it was located in Parramatta.
This Roll Book contains the names of children admitted to the Sydney Male Orphan School between 1819 and 1848. It contains information including the child’s name, age, admission date, date leaving the school, parent’s names, parent’s occupation, parent’s address, and other notes, e.g. why they were discharged and to whom. At the back of the…
Rita Wright talks about her experiences at Marella Mission Farm as a survivor of the Stolen Generations. This is an excerpt from the TV show Insight (SBS), episode “Looking After the Kids”, which originally aired on April 19 2016.
This is a photograph that appears on the cover of St Anthony’s Family Care by Kathleen Burford (1989).
Annual Report of the Sydney Female Mission Home is a collection held by the State Library of New South Wales. It is an incomplete collection of the annual reports of the Sydney Female Mission Home dating from 1873 to 1908. Access Conditions These records are open and accessible to any member of the public via…
Please contact South Eastern Sydney Local Health District Legal Services Unit: Postal address: Locked Mail Bag 21 Taren Point NSW 2229 Phone: (02) 9382 7625 Email: The email address for requesting personal health information from each hospital (including hospitals now closed) is available on the internet page linked below, under “facility contacts”. Website: https://www.seslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/services-clinics/directory/right-to-information/accessing-personal-health-information
In 2021 the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children rebranded, aligning all of its services under the name NextSense. NextSense provides services for children, adults and families of people with hearing or vision loss. The organisation delivers education, cochlear implant, allied health, therapy, research and clinical services.
The Records of the Royal Institution for Deaf and Blind Children (including the Deaf and Dumb Institution, the New South Wales Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind and the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children) are held by the successor organisation, NextSense. The historical records held on site at NextSense include annual reports…
As part of the UK Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, which ran from 2015-2022, the Inquiry investigated child migration programs to Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Zimbabwe. Research and hearings took place in 2017, and the Investigation Report was published in March 2018. The Inquiry asked a series of questions about child migration schemes,…
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