The Archive of the Catholic Archdiocese of Perth holds around 1,000 files relating to Former Child Migrants. The collection includes files created by the Catholic Episcopal Migration and Welfare Association and the Catholic Migrant Centre. The files may include information from Malta, from Children’s Homes in Britain and the Catholic Homes to which children were…
The Battye Library’s Private Archives Collection contains a collection of papers from Mrs Irene May Stahl, who, from 1933, was a member of the Child Welfare Department’s Boarding Out Committee for the Victoria Park district. This collection is identified by the manuscript number MN 2315. Names of children who were ‘boarded out’ (placed in care)…
Fairbridge Society and Fairbridge Farm School Pinjarra, Records is a collection of records of the Fairbridge Society and the Fairbridge Farm School, Pinjarra, held in the Battye Library’s Private Archives Collection at the State Library of Western Australia. This collection is identified by the manuscript number MN 62. The Fairbridge collection contains administration and personal…
Records of the Church of England Council for Empire Settlement [Council for Overseas Settlement] are held at the Lambeth Palace Library (formerly part of the Church of England Records Centre collection). The records include various committees’ minutes, annual reports, operational registers, agreements, and correspondence. There may be records about child migration to Swan Homes in…
Records of Christian Brothers Children’s Institutions in Western Australia is held by MacKillop Family Services in Victoria. (Previously, until 2019, it was held by the Westcourt Archives, Western Australia.) The collection includes records from 1888 to 1983 relating to children’s institutions run by the Christian Brothers in Western Australia. The collection includes admission registers and…
Father Hudson’s Society holds records for people who were sent as child migrants to Australia from the following Homes: St Edward’s Boys Home, Coventry Road, Coleshill; St Joan’s and the Nursery, Coventry Road, Coleshill; and St Paul’s, High Street, Coleshill. There may also be records from Nazareth House, Rednal, Birmingham. The files may be relevant…
Sister Kate’s Child and Family Services records, 1934-2002 [manuscript] is a collection of records held in the Battye Library’s Private Archives Collection at the State Library of Western Australia. The collection contains a range of records, some which are restricted to protect people’s privacy. The items in this collection include personal and administration records and…
‘Bringing Them Home after the Apology oral history project [sound recording]’ is a collection of interviews undertaken by the National Library of Australia. These interviews follow an earlier project that included oral histories from Indigenous people, missionaries, police and administrators who were ‘involved in or affected by’ the removal of Indigenous children from their families….
Uniting Church [Private Archives] is a collection of records held in the Battye Library’s Private Archives Collection at the State Library of Western Australia. The collection contains a range of records, some which are restricted to protect people’s privacy. The items in this collection include baptismal certificates and may include other personal information. The collection…
The collection held by the Uniting Church Archives in Perth dates from around 1918 to the 1980s. The collection includes information about Children’s Homes run by the Methodist and Presbyterian churches and, after 1977, the Uniting Church. Most of the information in the collection is about fundraising for the Homes, or copies of newsletters. There…
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