The Presbyterian Church of Australia was formed in 1901, shortly after Federation. The Presbyterian Church of Australia is a Protestant Christian church, with roots in Scotland. The Presbyterian Church formed a Social Services Department in the 1940s that ran aged care, hospital and court chaplaincies and children’s homes such as St Andrew’s Boys’ Home in…
Blackwood was opened as part of the Burnside Presbyterian Orphan Homes in August 1921 at North Parramatta. Blackwood, like the other Burnside Presbyterian Orphan Homes for Children, was evacuated during World War II. Blackwood was used by the Australian Army. It was a boys’ home and a cottage home until 1984. Blackwood was leased to…
The Uniting Church Board of Social Responsibility is an agency of the Uniting Church in Australia. It runs welfare programmes, including children’s programmes. When the Uniting Church was created in 1977 from Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregationalist parishes the Uniting Church Board of Social Responsibility assumed responsibility for children’s homes that had been run by the…
Methodism is a movement of Protestant Christianity linked with John Wesley and known for mission work. The Wesleyan Methodist Church of Australia was formed in 1946. Some members of the Methodist Church of Australasia formed a union with the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches in 1977. The Wesleyan Methodist Church, New South Wales, remained independent and…
The Uniting Church in Australia was inaugurated in 1977, following the union of members of the Methodist Church, the Congregational Church and some congregations of the Presbyterian Church from all states and territories. A number of welfare programmes linked with the member churches are now connected with the Uniting Church in Australia.
The Salvation Army Australia, Eastern Territory was one of two autonomous territories of this world-wide Christian Church in Australia. Its international headquarters are in London, England. The Eastern Territory comprised the Salvation Army in New South Wales, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory. (South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia and the Northern Territory made up…
The Sisters of Mercy, Wilcannia-Forbes Congregation, a Catholic religious order of women, was established in 1890. The Sisters ran St Anne’s Home, Broken Hill from 1898-1941. In 2011, the Sisters of Mercy, Wilcannia-Forbes Congregation was dissolved and merged with 15 former Australian congregations to become the Institute of Sisters of Mercy Australia and Papua New…
The Sisters of Mercy, Singleton Congregation, a Catholic religious order of women, was established in 1875, when Bishop James Murray invited Sisters of the Ennis Community to the Diocese of Maitland, Ireland. They built a substantial convent in stages from 1893 to 1925, and conducted a wide ranging ministry, including running the Monte Pio Home…
The Sisters of Mercy, Parramatta Congregation are an order of Catholic nuns who were responsible for the administration of St Brigid’s Girls’ Home, Ryde, 1898-1978 and St Michael’s Home, Baulkham Hills, 1902-83. The Sisters of Mercy ran also ran St Michael’s Family Centre, on the site of the old children’s home. In 2012 they announced…
The Sisters of Mercy, North Sydney Congregation, is a Catholic order of nuns established in Sydney 1865. They were responsible for the administration of St Carthage’s College for Young Ladies (1907-1931), St Catherine’s Home, Brooklyn (1931-1990) and Waitara Foundling Home (later known as Our Lady of Mercy Home from 1898 to 1977. It also ran…
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