The Sky Pilot Fellowship was an evangelical Christian organisation set up by Gwen and Keith Langford-Smith, who fostered Aboriginal children on their Kellyville farm property, which became Marella Mission Farm. Sky Pilot Fellowship was incorporated as a not-for-profit organisation on 23 May 1949. The Sky Pilot Fellowship conducted Christian radio broadcasts and raised money for…
Marella Mission Farm originated in 1948 with Gwen and Keith Langford-Smith accommodating Aboriginal foster children on their farm property at Kellyville. By 1949 Langford Smith had set up the Sky Pilot Foundation to run the farm, with the stated goal of caring for Aboriginal children who had been born in New South Wales to mothers…
Tress-Manning Home, at Carlingford, was established in 1920 by the Church of England Homes Committee. It was boys’ home, and closed around 1970. Tress-Manning was named after the Reverend TB Tress and the Reverend Dr Manning, who set up Church of England Children’s Homes in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney in the 1880s, beginning with…
Church of England Homes was an agency of the Sydney Anglican Diocese that ran children’s homes in Sydney and the Blue Mountains. It was created around 1884 by Reverend TB Tress and Reverend Dr Manning, in Woolloomooloo, and grew to take in several committees that had operated in the Sydney area. Church of England Homes…
Coventry Home, in Armidale, was set up in 1933 by the Church of England, and was run by a management committee. From 1950, this committee also ran the Ohio Boys’ Home at nearby Walcha. Coventry appears to have been established as a girls’ home, but also housed some boys, including those from Ohio Boys’ Home…
Timaru Refuge was a crisis accommodation centre and youth refuge for children experiencing family crisis and requiring short-term accommodation. It was established by Charlton Youth Services, later known as Anglicare Youth Services, around 1980 at Macquarie Fields, near Campbelltown. It could accommodated up to 6 children between the ages of 10 and 18 years old….
George Brown College at Haberfield was a hostel used to house 20 Aboriginal children who had been evacuated from Croker Island (Northern Territory) during World War II by the Church Missionary Society. While staying at George Brown College, the Croker Island children attended Haberfield Public School. The evacuees had left by 1946. Claire Henty-Gebert, one…
Charlton Boys’ Home, Ashfield was established in 1966 by the Anglican Home Mission Society. It had earlier been located in Glebe, and moved into a property that been formerly the Milleewa Boys’ Home. In the late 1970s this property became known as Robinson Home. Charlton was run by the Anglican Home Mission Society, and the…
The Bush Church Aid Society is a Christian ministry that has provided religious education, flying padres and counselling, welfare and medical services across outback Australia. In 2012, many of its workers are Aboriginal. It also ran children’s hostels, providing accommodation and residential support for children who had to leave their homes for their education. One…
‘Quipolli’, or ‘Quipolly’, was the name of a house in Leura that was used as a girl’s home by Church of England Homes in the 1930s. It was for girls aged up to 15 years, some of whom had come from the Havilah Little Children’s Home at Normanhurst. There were 28 girls resident in the…
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