Dundas Boys’ Home was opened by the Churches of Christ in 1930. It was intended to house 21 boys, but by 1932 there were 31 boys in residence. Dundas Boys’ Home was located in the house “Calmsley” at Dundas. In 1936, “Calmsley” was sold and the boys moved to Dunmore House, Pendle Hill. Dundas Boys’…
Falling Leaves, at Avalon, operated from around 1950. It was a licensed children’s home approved by the New South Wales Child Welfare Department. Licensed children’s homes were considered part of the foster care system. Falling Leaves closed around 1970. In 2013 it is a private house. Falling Leaves was run by a mother and daughter…
Stewart House, at Curl Curl, was opened in 1931. Since 1937 it has been run by a committee of the NSW Teachers’ Federation and is a short-term residential programme for New South Wales public school children. In 2013 Stewart House provides short-term respite care to 2,000 children a year. Stewart House runs a short-term residential…
The Sunshine Institute was founded in 1923 on the Pacific Highway at Gore Hill by Lorna Hodgkinson. It was a school and residential institution for children and adults with intellectual and other forms of disability. In 1951, the Sunshine Institute became the Lorna Hodgkinson Sunshine Home. The Sunshine Home was established by Dr Lorna Hodgkinson,…
The Lorna Hodgkinson Sunshine Home, on the Pacific Highway in Gore Hill, was the new name given in 1951 to what had been the Sunshine Institute. It was a residential institution for disabled children and adults. The Gore Hill facility may have closed around 1990, when it was replaced by a new facility at Pymble….
The Cottage Home for Invalid Children was established at Parramatta by the State Children’s Relief Department around 1907. It was a home for children who were physically ill or disabled. It closed around 1940.
The Sydney Female Refuge dates from around 1870. It was run by the Sydney Female Refuge Society, a Protestant organisation established in 1848, and mostly administered by a committee of women. The Refuge was located in Pitt Street, Sydney, next door to the Catholic refuge, the House of the Good Shepherd. Originally, it was established…
The Isabella Lazarus Children’s Home was a home for Jewish children at Hunters Hill that was founded in 1939. It was opened at the same time as the Sir Moses Montefiore Jewish Home, which ran the children’s home, and was located on the same property. It moved temporarily to Killara in 1942 then to Waverley…
Garth was established by the Child Welfare Department in Willoughby in 1924. It was a home for the segregation and treatment of children, and mothers and babies, who were suffering from venereal disease. Not all children in the home carried venereal disease, as it also housed children with polio (infantile paralysis). A commission of inquiry…
The Male Orphan School was established by Governor Macquarie in 1819 to house destitute boys aged between seven and ten. It was located on George Street, Sydney, in the former premises of the Female Orphan School. The boys were given a basic education, learned trades such as carpentry, hat and shoe making, and, from 1923,…
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