Havilah Little Children’s Home was established in a house called Havilah in Hinemoa Road, Normanhurst in 1918 by the Church of England Diocese of Sydney.(This was also known as Havilah Wahroonga). It was a home for infant children aged under six years. Havilah Little Children’s Home was established by the Homes and Hostels Committee for…
The Church of England Girls’ Home was opened in Carlingford in 1928, in the same buildings, Minden and No. 2 Home that had previously operated as the Church of England Boys’ Home. From 1928, girls were transferred from the four homes of the Child Rescue Home in Glebe Point and No. 2 Home became known…
The Church of England Boys’ Home was for boys aged 6 to 18 years. It was established by Church of England Homes in 1918 in a rented house in Cronulla, before moving in 1920 to Carlingford occupying the building ‘Minden’. Boys were sometimes transferred from the Church of England home, Havilah, upon reaching the age…
The Anglican Diocese of Sydney was founded in 1788, when the Church of England arrived with the First Fleet. The Sydney Diocese ran a number of children’s homes, through various committees including Church of England Children’s Homes and the Home Mission Society, and supported independent committees to run others. Since 1983 the Church of England…
The Home Mission Society of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, also known as the Church of England Home Mission Society, the Anglican Home Mission Society and the Home Mission Society, was formed in Sydney in 1857. It was controlled by the Sydney Diocese of the Church of England and its primary object was to help…
Anglicare is the urban mission and community care arm of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney. Previously, it was the Home Mission Society of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney. Anglicare provides a wide range of community services and programs across the Sydney metropolitan and Illawarra regions of New South Wales. Anglicare manages the records of a…
Anglicare Child and Family Services replaced Care Force in 1997. It held and managed the records of a number of Church of England children’s homes in the Sydney Church of England/Anglican Diocese. In 2008 this organisation became known as Anglicare Out-of-Home Care, part of the Anglicare Child Youth and Family Services Department. Anglicare Out-of-Home Care…
The Anglican Diocese of Armidale was established in 1914. Previously, it was known as the Diocese of Armidale and Grafton. The Diocese had two children’s Homes, run by a committee of management – Ohio Boys’ Home and Coventry Home. In a statement to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in 2016,…
Broughton Lodge was a hostel run by the Church of England for girls from the country attending school in Geraldton. Broughton Lodge opened in 1942, initially taking in non-Aboriginal girls from rural areas, and from 1953 taking in Aboriginal girls only. In addition to their school work girls at the hostel received domestic training. Aboriginal…
St John’s by the Sea, in Beach Road, Sandringham, was a cottage-style Home for 20 boys. It was run by St John’s Home for Boys. It opened in 1951, was still open in 1954, and possibly closed in 1958. The residents of St John’s by the Sea included child migrants from Britain. The Home was…
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