These registers record details about children admitted to the Townsend Pre-School for Hearing and Hearing Impaired Children. Information recorded includes child’s name, gender, admission date, date of birth, religion, parent’s names and occupations, address, and reason for leaving school. It is not clear if this register includes details about children who lived at Townsend House,…
This admission and discharge book contains details about children and young people admitted to the Central Norther Region Assessment Unit, which was also known as the Gilles Plains Assessment Unit or the Northern Metro Assessment Unit. It contains information such as child’s name, date of birth, endowment/DSS number, age, cultural group, sex, date of admission,…
These two admission books record details about children and young people admitted to the Western Region Admission Unit at Somerton Park, which was initially known as the Central Region Admission Unit. Information recorded in the books includes child’s name, admission number, admission date, their age, date of birth, name of their Community Welfare Worker or…
The Correspondence files of the Education Department contain letters and memorandum received and sent by the South Australian Education Department, including some that relate to schools at Point Mcleay Mission Station, Point Pearce Aboriginal Station, the Salvation Army Probationary School, Mount Barker (Eden Park), and Townsend House School for Deaf and Blind Children. The correspondence…
State Records of South Australia holds a large collection of Client Files and Family Files that were kept by the State departments responsible for child and social welfare, as well as indexes that provide reference to these files. These files contain information about children in the child welfare system and their families, and include files…
This book was created by the Superintendent of Ooldea Mission (Harrie E. Green), and contains details about residents of the mission. It includes information about births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths of Aboriginal people living at the Mission, as well as a list of residents. It also contains the Superintendent’s notes about cultural customs, totems, and…
Records of United Aborigines Mission (UAM) – copies of records from the UAM Archive made by Alison Longworth is an archival collection at the State Library of South Australia. The records comprise copies made by Alison Longworth when she visited the UAM Archive in Doncaster, Victoria, in the early 2000s while undertaking research for her…
These are records created by the institutions that functioned as the government Reformatories and Training Centres in South Australia, including the Ilfracombe, Boys Reformatory, the Reformatory Hulk FitzJames, Boys and Girls Reformatories at Magill, McNally Training Centre, South Australian Youth Training Centre, the Magill Training Centre, and the Adelaide Youth Training Centre. The records contain…
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State Records of South Australia hold a small collection of records about the Cavan Training Centre and the young people who attended the centre. These records contain information relating to court appearances made by the residents, reports on the number of residents at the Centre, and minutes of meetings of the senior staff management team…
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