St Joseph’s Cowper is a Catholic out-of-home care agency that was established in 1993. It was formerly known as St Joseph’s Cowper Children’s Homes. In 2013 it was known as St Joseph’s Cowper Inc and was a residential and foster care agency for children and young people placed in the care of the Minister by…
The Sisters of Mercy, Grafton Congregation, a Catholic religious order of women from England and Ireland, was established in 1884. The sisters were responsible for the administration of St Joseph’s Cowper Incorporated, Grafton formerly known as Cowper Orphanage and St Joseph’s Cowper Children’s Home. In 2011, the Sisters of Mercy, Grafton Congregation was dissolved and…
St Joseph’s Orphanage Cowper, outside Grafton, was opened on 18 January 1914 by the Sisters of Mercy. The original clients were ‘poor and destitute’ children from families who were suffering during the economic downturn and parent loss during World War I. In 1972 the agency relocated to a site in North Street, Grafton and became…
St John’s Orphanage was founded by the Albury Foundation of the Sisters of Mercy in 1882 at Thurgoona. It was also known as St John’s Home, Wirlinga. The Orphanage first housed girls aged 5 to 16 years and later accommodated 30 British war orphans. In later years it cared for both boys and girls. From…
St John’s Home, Goulburn was established in Clinton Street, Goulburn New South Wales in 1905, and moved to Mundy Street in 1907. It cared for boys aged 5 to 16 years. In 1976 it took in girls from St Joseph’s Orphanage in Goulburn. It remained on site until 1978, when it was closed and the…
St John’s Home, Auburn Street Goulburn, provided care for girls and boys and was established in 1976 when St John’s Home, Goulburn and St Joseph’s, Goulburn were amalgamated. It closed in 1987.
St Joseph’s Orphanage, Goulburn, was run by the Sisters of Mercy from 1864. It was located at the corner of Clinton and Bourke Streets, Goulburn from 1880 until 1905, when the children were moved to a new site in Kenmore. It provided care for girls aged 5 to 16 years. In 1976 the Home amalgamated…
The Sisters of Mercy, Goulburn Congregation, a Catholic religious order of women from Ireland, was established in 1859. In 1907 the Sisters of Mercy started to consolidate the number of congregations across Australia and amalgamated Goulburn with the congregations in Albury (1868) and Yass (1875). The Sisters were responsible for the administration of several children’s…
The Holy Family Children’s Home was established at Marayong in Sydney’s west in 1956 by the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth. It cared for boys and girls, usually migrant children from Poland or Malta. The Holy Family Children’s Home closed in 1985. In 2013 the site of the former Holy Family Children’s Home…
St Joseph’s Orphanage, Bathurst was operated by the Sisters of Mercy from 1867 to 1975, and cared for girls. It was initially located next to the Bathurst Cathedral, and in 1912 re-located to ‘Holmhurst’, a large house on William Street, Bathurst. It closed in 1975. After the closure of St Joseph’s Orphanage in 1975, some…
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