Ward Street Family Group Home, in Rockhampton, was operated by the Sisters of Mercy. It was purchased in June 1977 and opened 12 October 1977. Children from St Joseph’s Home, Neerkol, were transferred to the home. It closed early 1979.
The Catholic Family Welfare Bureau in Queensland was formed in 1958 by Archbishop of Brisbane James Duhig. It grew out of an organisation called the Catholic Marriage Advisory Council. In 1984, the organisation became known as Centre Care (later updated again to Centacare in 1991). The Catholic Family Welfare Bureau grew out of a lay…
The Female Refuge and Infants’ Home, in Brisbane was founded by Ann Drew in 1870. It was run by a committee of women representing various Protestant groups. The Home moved to a new building in Brisbane in 1880 and then the Trustees of the Home bought a property at Toowong. The Female Refuge and Infants…
The United Protestant Association of Queensland was a Christian Welfare organisation established in around 1938. It ran a children’s Home in Corinda from 1951 until 1974. The Home was closed under controversial circumstances and may have also led to the shutting down of the United Protestant Association of Queensland.
The Franciscan Missionaries of Mary were first established in Australia in Brisbane, Queensland, in 1941, and worked primarily with Aboriginal people. In Queensland they took over the care of the Leprosarium on Fantome Island and the primary school on Palm Island, both Aboriginal settlements under Government control. They also ran the Xavier Home for Crippled…
The Society of the Sacred Advent is an Anglican religious order founded at Brisbane, Australia, in 1892 by Caroline Grace Millicent Short (1839-1922). In 2014 the order was still active in Brisbane.
St Brigid’s Industrial School, in Rockhampton, was run by the Sisters of Mercy. Information about this institution is scarce but it originally operated as a boarding facility and industrial school for young girls from outlying areas of the Diocese. It then became a working girls’ hostel. St Brigid’s opened around 1874 and closed in 1985….
St Henry’s Roman Catholic Asylum, on Thursday Island, was an orphanage run by the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart and the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. It was part of the Sacred Heart Mission. The orphanage opened in 1889 and closed 1942 when the children were moved from Thursday Island to Cooyar…
Wongabeena Family Group Home, in Mundingburra, near Townsville, was operated by Queensland Baptist Care. It opened and was licensed 1970/71. Funding for the home ceased 1988/89. As of 2019 we have been unable to find further information about this home. Please contact Find & Connect if you know more about this home.
The Tufnell Toddlers’ Home, in Nundah, was operated by the Corporation of the Synod of the Diocese of Brisbane. It was co-located with Tufnell Home and housed children up to the age of five. The Toddlers’ Home opened 14 September 1947 and closed around 1975. The Tufnell Toddlers’ Home was licensed as a separate institution…
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