St Michael’s Orphanage, run by the Sisters of Mercy, was opened at Baulkham Hills in 1902. It was also known as St Michael’s Boys’ Home. The Orphanage housed boys aged 5 to 12 years. Around 1960, the institution became St Michael’s Children’s Home and housed boys and girls. St Michael’s Orphanage was established by the…
St Michael’s Children’s Home, run by the Sisters of Mercy Parramatta Congregation, was established around 1960. It was previously known as St Michael’s Orphanage or Boys’ Home. The Children’s Home cared for boys and girls aged 5 to 15 years. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the home evolved into three cottages each with…
St Brigid’s Girls’ Home opened in 1898 at Ryde and was operated by the Sisters of Mercy Parramatta Congregation. It housed girls aged 5 to 15 years. St Brigid’s Girls’ Home closed in 1978. St Brigid’s Girls’ Home was opened, under the patronage of Cardinal Moran, on 17 June 1898. Records of the Home are…
Our Lady of Mercy Home was established in 1928 and was formerly known as Waitara Foundling Home and usually just as Waitara. The Home cared for children from birth to the age of 15, and from 1970, children aged 7-12. It also housed unmarried mothers. Our Lady of Mercy Home Waitara was replaced by the…
The Mercy Family Life Centre Waitara was previously known as Our Lady of Mercy Home and was run by the Sisters of Mercy. It was built in a part of the grounds of the old Waitara Orphanage (Our Lady of Mercy) in 1977. In 1994, it was incorporated and became the Mercy Family Centre. Mercy…
The Waitara Foundling Home was established in 1898 by the Sisters of Mercy, North Sydney Congregation as a home for babies and for unmarried mothers, who were referred from hospitals throughout the eastern states of Australia. In 1928 the Waitara Foundling Home was renamed Our Lady of Mercy Home. The Waitara Foundling Home was first…
St Catherine’s Orphanage was a children’s home run by the Sisters of Mercy at Brooklyn, on the Hawkesbury River. St Catherine’s Orphanage had been St Carthage’s College for Young Ladies. It was primarily a girls’ home, although some of the girls’ brothers lived in the home while they were young. It closed in 1990. St…
St Patrick’s Homes, run by the Sisters of Mercy, were formed in 1976 when the remaining children from St Patrick’s Orphanage were moved to two cottages in Armidale. The cottages closed in 1984.
St Patrick’s Orphanage, run by the Sisters of Mercy, was located at the end of O’Connor Road, Armidale from 1919 until 1983. When it closed the remaining children were moved to two cottages in Armidale which were known as St Patrick’s Homes.
St Joseph’s Cowper Children’s Homes was established in 1972 following the relocation of St Joseph’s Orphanage to North Street, Grafton. In 1993 the service became known as St Joseph’s Cowper. In 1972, the St Joseph’s Orphanage relocated to a site in North Street, Grafton and became known as St Joseph’s Cowper Children’s Homes. This change…
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