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Western Australia - Organisation
Advisory Council of Empire Settlement (1925 - 1981)
United Kingdom
- From
- 1925
- To
- 1981
- Categories
- Anglican, Church Agency and Sending Agency
- Alternative Names
- Advisory Council of Empire Settlement (also known as, 1937 - 1953)
- Church of England Council for Commonwealth and Empire Settlement (also known as, 1954 - 1958)
- Church of England Council for Commonwealth Settlement (also known as, 1958 - 1975)
- Church of England Council of Empire Settlement (also known as, 1925 - 1937)
- Committee for Overseas Settlement (also known as, 1975 - 1981)
The Church of England's migration committee (which had a number of different names) organised the migration of British children to Swan Homes in Western Australia. In his history of Swan Homes, Roy Peterkin recalled the roles of two key people in arranging the migration of more than 200 children to Swan Homes over a period of 12 years. These were Mr Alfred Arthur Robertson (Office Manager at Swan Homes and Immigration Officer for the Anglican Church in WA) and the Secretary of the Anglican migration committee in London, Miss Enid Jones MBE. Writing about this in 1988, Peterkin (p.107) acknowledged that it was a 'weakness' of the scheme that there were 'no detailed case-histories' of the British children who were sent to Swan Homes.
Publications
Books
- Peterkin, A. Roy, The Noisy Mansions : the story of Swanleigh 1868-1971, Perth Diocesan Trustees, Anglican Church of Australia, Midland, Western Australia, 1986. pp.56, 107. Details
Online Resources
Photos
- Title
- John Moss C.B.E. U.K. Child Welfare Expert. Visit to Australia. Part II
- Type
- Document
- Date
- 1951 - 1952
- Source
- National Archives of Australia
- Note
- There is information about the Advisory Council of Empire Settlement in the John Moss Visit to Australia file Part II, please see pp.173-174
Details
- Title
- Moss Report Implementation [Excerpt] - Swan Homes
- Type
- Document
- Date
- 20 April 1954
- Source
- National Archives of Australia,
Details
Sources used to compile this entry: 'Committee for Overseas Settlement', in Database of Archives of Non-Governmental Organisations, University of Birmingham, 22 January 2008, https://web.archive.org/web/20090316062640/http://www.dango.bham.ac.uk/record_details.asp?recordType=ngo&id=2442;
Peterkin, A. Roy, The Noisy Mansions : the story of Swanleigh 1868-1971, Perth Diocesan Trustees, Anglican Church of Australia, Midland, Western Australia, 1986. pp.56, 107..
Prepared by: Debra Rosser
Created: 10 September 2012, Last modified: 24 February 2015