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…
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.
Toongabbie was established by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in 1948 in Toongabbie in western Sydney. It appears that it was established as a holiday home and farm school, with the farm supporting the Home of the Good Shepherd, Ashfield. In 1953, the The Loreto Training School was established at Toongabbie, as an adjunct…
St Gabriel’s was established in Castle Hill in 1922 by the Christian Brothers. It was a residential home for boys who had a hearing impairment, aged from 5 to 17 years. St Gabriel’s stopped serving as a residential school in 1973, and became a co-educational day school. In 2014 it was still a school, but…
St Martha’s Industrial Home opened at Leichhardt by the Sisters of Saint Joseph in 1888. St Martha’s housed girls of school age and trained them in domestic arts and crafts. In 1923 the original building was demolished and replaced with dormitories, housing up to 120 children. In the late 1950s, St Martha’s Industrial Home became…
St Edmund’s School opened in 1951 in Wahroonga and was run by the Christian Brothers. It was a residential school for boys who had a visual impairment, aged from 5 to 17 years. After 1980 the school began to include students who had other sensory impairments and other special needs.
The Congregation of Christian Brothers is a world wide religious community within the Catholic Church that was founded by the Irish missionary and teacher Edmund Rice (1762-1844) in 1802. Their main focus is social justice and the evangelisation and education of youth and they have run hundreds of schools and institutions across the world. The…
The Roman Catholic Orphan School at Parramatta was established on the 8 March 1844 and run by a committee. On the 31 March 1859, it was taken over by the Good Shepherd Sisters, later known as Sisters of the Good Samaritan. It was Australia’s first purpose built orphanage for Catholic children and was funded by…
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