The Church Missionary Society Home for Half-Castes at Mulgoa was established in 1942. It accommodated Aboriginal children who had been evacuated under military orders by the Commonwealth Department of Native Affairs. They were mainly from South Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland, though some were from New South Wales. They were aged 1 to 14…
Milleewa was a boys’ home that was established by the Anglican Homes for Children Association in 1919. It was located in Ashfield and housed approximately 20 boys aged from five to 14 who were ‘without homes or not under parental control’. For six months during World War II the Church Mission Society leased a portion…
The Deaconess Children’s Home and Domestic Training School was a children’s home and training home for girls that was run by the Church of England Deaconess Institution. It operated in Ashfield (1893-1894), and on various site in Balmain (1895-1914). From 1900 The Deaconess Children’s Home was co-located with Lisgar Training Home for Domestic Servants on…
The Hay Institution for Girls was opened in the old Hay Gaol in 1961. It was an annexe of Parramatta Girls Training School, and held 12 girls aged 15 to 18 who had committed offences, including rioting to protest their treatment, while they were in Parramatta. They were officially sent to Hay for three month…
The Carpentarian Reformatory was established by the Department of Charitable Institutions at Brush Farm, a historic property in Eastwood, in 1894. It was located in an area sometimes referred to as Dundas Heights, so is often described as being in Dundas. In 1897, the management of the Reformatory was taken over by the State Children’s…
Kinchela Training Home, near Kempsey, was built in 1923 by the Aborigines’ Protection Board. It was intended to offer training in farm labouring to older boys who had been removed from their families under the Protection Board’s policies of apprenticing Aboriginal youths. Later it became a home for school-aged boys who had been removed from…
Government Agricultural Farm, Scheyville, located at Pitt Town, was a training farm for youth from 1905, and, from 1911, a camp for British migrant boys and youth in the Dreadnought and Big Brother schemes. During World War II it was converted to a military training camp and after World War II became a Commonwealth migrant…
The Young Women’s Hostel was a Salvation Army Hostel for girls and young women that was opened in 1912 in Elizabeth Street, Sydney. It closed in 1924 and moved to Moore Park, where it held up to 130 girls. It operated until 1973 as a hostel for working girls.
The Society for the Relief of Destitute Children opened an asylum for children in Ormond House, a mansion in Paddington, in 1852. The Asylum held 150 children aged 3 to 10 years who were defined as needy yet had not been admitted to the Orphan Schools. Every child admitted (including voluntary admissions) to the Asylum…
The Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children began in 1858, when the Asylum for Destitute Children relocated from Ormond House in Paddington to Randwick. It was run by the Society for the Relief of Destitute Children and housed up to 800 children at a time in large dormitories that are often called ‘barracks’. Most of the…
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