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’…
Church of England Homes was an agency of the Sydney Anglican Diocese that ran children’s homes in Sydney and the Blue Mountains. It was created around 1884 by Reverend TB Tress and Reverend Dr Manning, in Woolloomooloo, and grew to take in several committees that had operated in the Sydney area. Church of England Homes…
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…
The Female School of Industry was first established in Macquarie Street in Sydney, then moved to Darlinghurst Road around 1877. It finally moved to Petersham in 1903. It was a girls’ home and domestic training home for girls aged 4 to 14. It closed in 1926. The Female School of Industry was established by a…
The Dr Dill Macky Memorial Home, in Albert Road Strathfield, was founded by the Loyal Orange Lodge and run by the Australian Protestant Orphans’ Society in 1922. It housed up to 150 children at one time. It closed in 1983. Dr Dill Macky Memorial Home, Strathfield, was a sister institution for the Dr Dill Macky…
The Australian Protestant Orphans’ Society was established in 1909 by Dr Dill Macky. Macky established the Society ‘for the purpose of founding a Home for Protestant orphan children.’ The Society later ran the King Edward VII Home, Auburn and the Dill Macky Memorial Homes in Auburn and Strathfield. In 1928 its president was Mr A…
Coventry Home, in Armidale, was set up in 1933 by the Church of England, and was run by a management committee. From 1950, this committee also ran the Ohio Boys’ Home at nearby Walcha. Coventry appears to have been established as a girls’ home, but also housed some boys, including those from Ohio Boys’ Home…
Timaru Refuge was a crisis accommodation centre and youth refuge for children experiencing family crisis and requiring short-term accommodation. It was established by Charlton Youth Services, later known as Anglicare Youth Services, around 1980 at Macquarie Fields, near Campbelltown. It could accommodated up to 6 children between the ages of 10 and 18 years old….
George Brown College at Haberfield was a hostel used to house 20 Aboriginal children who had been evacuated from Croker Island (Northern Territory) during World War II by the Church Missionary Society. While staying at George Brown College, the Croker Island children attended Haberfield Public School. The evacuees had left by 1946. Claire Henty-Gebert, one…
Dunmore House at Pendle Hill was run by the Churches of Christ as a boys’ home from 1936 until the early 1980s. Dunmore House was opened as a boys’ home by Thomas E. Rofe, conference president of the Churches of Christ, on 5 April 1936. Dunmore House was also the name for the historic house…
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