Windsor Farm Home for Boys was set up by the Anglican Homes for Children Association in 1923. It was located at Freeman’s Reach and was a training farm for older boys from Milleewa and other children’s homes. It held 15 boys, who entered the home at 13 or 14 years of age and stayed until…
The Church Missionary Society Home for Half-Castes at Mulgoa was established in 1942. It housed 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…
The Anglican Homes for Children Association operated Milleewa Home for Boys in Ashfield and the Windsor Farm Home for Boys at Freeman’s Reach. The Anglican Homes for Children Association is thought to have ended in about 1966, when Milleewa was handed to the Anglican Home Mission Society. The Anglican Homes for Children Association wrote in…
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…
Anglican Deaconess Ministries Ltd is the modern name of the Church of England Deaconess Institution, a women’s religious order that ran children’s homes in Sydney. Anglican Deaconess Ministries Ltd holds records relating to the Deaconess Children’s Home and Domestic Training School, in Balmain, Ashfield and Annandale; Lisgar Training Service for Domestic Servants; Lisgar Children’s Home,…
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…
Centacare Adoption Services was name of the organisation created when Centacare Catholic Community Care took over the running of Catholic Adoption Services in 1993. It dealt with adoptions in the Sydney Archdiocese of the Catholic Church. This organisation is now known as CatholicCare Adoption Services. Please refer to CatholicCare Adoption Services for further information.
Centacare Catholic Community Services Sydney was the welfare arm of the Catholic Church until 2011, when it changed its name to CatholicCare. It had previously been known as the Catholic Family Welfare Bureau. In the 1960s the Catholic Family Welfare Bureau had changed the nature of Catholic institutions by centralising admissions and requiring parents to…
St Margaret’s Home for Unwed Mothers, Surry Hills, was attached to St Margaret’s Hospital from 1894. It was a home for unmarried mothers who were waiting to give birth, and for their babies. It was part of St Margaret’s Hospital, and was run by the Sisters of St Joseph from 1937. It closed around 1982….
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.
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