The Relief Division of the Social Services Department, and the Social Welfare Department that succeeded it, was established in the early 1950s. It provided financial and other assistance to people without enough money to meet everyday expenses. Family welfare work often involved both the Relief and the Child Welfare Divisions. After the early 1980s, the…
The Special and Rare Collections department is part of the University of Tasmania Library. Its collection includes the records of the Industrial School for Girls – Hobart.
The Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages replaced the Registrar-General’s Division in 1989. In 2014, the Registrar maintains registers of births, deaths, marriages, deeds of relationships, and adoptions, changes of name, and changes of sex for people born in Tasmania. It holds church records from 1803 to 1839 and birth, death, and marriage records from…
The Registrar-General’s Division replaced the Registrar-General’s Department when, in 1972, it amalgamated with the Lands Titles Department. In 1983, it merged with the newly created Law Department.
The Registrar-General’s Department replaced the General Registry Department in 1959. It continued to administer the Adoption of Children Act 1920 until 1961 when the Child Welfare Division of the Social Welfare Department took over responsibility for it.
The General Registry Department replaced the Statistical and General Registry Department in 1924, following the Commonwealth government’s takeover of the of the state statistical service. In 1930, the Department temporarily became a branch again because of funding problems. It resumed departmental status in 1934. The Department continued to administer the Adoption of Children Act 1920.
The Statistical and General Registry Department superseded the Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in 1882. The Department was divided into statistical and registration branches. In 1919, the government appointed a Government Statistician and a Registrar-General both working in the same Department. The Department administered the Adoption of Children Act 1920.
The Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages was established in 1838. It was located in the Attorney-General’s Department. 1882, it became the Statistical and General Registry Department. An Act For Registering Births, Deaths And Marriages In The Island Of Van Diemen’s Land And Its Dependencies established the Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages to cope…
Abermere Family Group Home, run by the government, replaced Abermere Receiving Home in about 1981. It was in Mount Stuart. The Home provided temporary accommodation to children who were wards of state or supervised in other ways by the Social Welfare Department and its successors. Abermere closed around 2000. The Home provided accommodation for new…
Glenara Training Services superseded Glenara Children’s Homes in 1984. It resulted from an agreement between the Board of Glenara and the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations to set up a Work Preparation Program for young people. Glenara Training Services closed in the mid 1990s.The Board sold the property to Southern Cross Care (Tasmania) in…
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