Burwood Maternity Home, run by the Salvation Army, was opened in a house called Clythe at Lucas Road Burwood in October 1898, having moved from Newtown. It provided accommodation for homeless girls and unmarried mothers and also operated as a maternity home. It moved to Marrickville in 1910. According to Connecting Kin (1998), this Home…
The Hopeleigh Maternity Home, run by the Salvation Army, opened in Marrickville in 1911. It was also called Marrickville Maternity Home and, from 1927, Bethesda Maternity Hospital. It was a rescue home, a babies’ home, and a hospital and lying-in home for both married and unmarried pregnant women. In 1957 a new Bethesda Maternity Hospital…
Bethesda Maternity Hospital was a Salvation Army maternity home, rescue home and hospital located at Victoria Road and Lester Street, Marrickville. The Bethesda Hospital was a new building, erected on the same grounds as the Hopeleigh Maternity Hospital (which had also been referred to as ‘Bethesda’ since the 1920s). This Bethesda Hospital in Marrickville was…
Bathurst Maternity and Rescue Home, also known as the Ebenezer Maternity and Rescue Home, was a Salvation Army maternity and rescue home located at Richmond Cottage in Piper Street, Bathurst. It opened in 1897. At the time of opening it had accommodation for eight people in two dormitories. In 1904, it moved to Durham Street….
Cornerstone was a children’s home run by Presbyterian Social Services that opened around 1990. It provided supported semi-independent living for six youths aged 16 to 18. Cornerstone closed around 2010.
Kyle Williams Legacy Home, on the George’s River at Blakehurst, was set up as a children’s home under the terms of the will of Caroline Milne Williams in 1947. It was operated by Sydney Legacy from 1947 until 1985. Kyle Williams Home was a convalescent home for children aged between 3 and 8. In 1985,…
New Anchor was a group home established in Jannali around 1990 by the Presbyterian Social Services Department. It was a supported family home with places available for six 12 to 16 year olds. It closed around 1999.
St Joseph’s Home, Croydon, run by the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, was established in 1925. It was intended for the care of boys and girls (including siblings) aged three to seven years who were defined as orphans, neglected and destitute. St Joseph’s Home amalgamated with St Anthony’s Croydon at the end…
St Joseph’s Orphanage, Kincumber, on the Central Coast, opened in 1887 and was run by the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. It first housed boys aged 7 to 15, but by the 1970s accommodated boys and girls. More than 2,500 children passed through St Joseph’s Orphanage by the time it closed in…
St Joseph’s Providence, or The Providence, operated at Dawes Point from 1880 then moved to The Rocks in 1881. Run by Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, The Providence took in boys and girls, and homeless women, as well as providing meals for destitute men. The Providence closed in 1901. The Sisters of…
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