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Record of Admissions to Boys Reformatory

Title across top Register of Admissions to the Boys’ Reformatory. Entries over two pages. Left hand page: (1) Number; (2) Name; (3) Age; (4) Date of birth; (5) Late place of residence; (6) What relatives in the Colony, where Living, Earnings, and Occupation. Right hand page: (7) Court of committal, (8) Reasons for admission, (9)…

Admission Register Boys Reformatory Magill

Title across top Register of Admissions to the Boys’ Reformatory. Entries over two pages. Left hand page: (1) Number; (2) Name; (3) Age; (4) Date of birth; (5) Late place of residence; (6) What relatives in the Colony, where Living, Earnings, and Occupation. Right hand page: (7) Court of committal, (8) Reasons for admission, (9)…

Register of Admissions to the Boys Reformatory, Magill

Title across top, Register of Admissions to the Boys’ Reformatory. Entries over two pages. Left hand page: (1) Number; (2) Name; (3) Age; (4) Date of birth; (5) Late place of residence; (6) What relatives in the Colony, where Living, Earnings, and Occupation; (7) Religion. Right hand page: (8) Court of committal, (9) Reasons for…

Register of Admissions to the Reformatory Hulk and Boys Reformatory, Magill

This register is a very large leather bound volume with ‘CASES BOOK – REFORMATORY HULK’ embossed on the spine. Access Conditions A Research Centre Members card, obtainable at the Archives, is required to research records held at State Records. Although some very early records relating to children in care in South Australia are open for…

Correspondence, Female Refuge and Infants Home

Correspondence (BWEBS224-1) is an archival item, which contains records listed as: “Female Refuge and Infants Home (Turbot, Edward & Ann Sts) 1875 – 1910”. The records include general correspondence related to the management of the Female Refuge and Infants Home. Access Conditions Access to some of these records is restricted to protect personal privacy. Records…

Training, Riverview

Training, Riverview is a file containing a copy of an article written by the Salvation Army Immigration Department on 3 September 1928. The article talks about the training for migrants in Queensland rural life, provided at Riverview Farm. Access Conditions This record is on open access and are available for viewing by the general public.

Johnston, John, Historian, News clippings and photographs – Children’s Homes

Johnston, John, Historian, Item ID PRCOS257-7, contains news clippings and photographs collected by John Johnston that relate to the following institutions: Boys Home Enoggera, Brisbane Female Refuge, Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute, Home of the Good Shepherd, Nundah (State Orphans), Lytton Reformatory, OPAL (One People Australian League), St. Michael’s Industrial School, Clayfield, Sandeman Nursery Wynnum,…

Miscellaneous, St Christopher’s Lodge and The Friary

Miscellaneous, Item ID SSFRS165-3, is an archival item related to the Society of St Francis Religious Order. The collection consists of General Correspondence, News Clippings, Notebooks, Books, Loose Photographic Prints and Legal Documents. Part of the collection includes general historical material related to St Christopher’s Lodge and The Friary. Access Conditions Access to some of…

Visiting Justice’s Minute Book, Reformatory School for Boys – ‘Proserpine’ Hulk and Reformatory Schools for Boys – Lytton, Diamantina, Westbrook

The Visiting Justice’s Minute Book, Series ID 1773, relates to the Reformatory School for Boys – Hulk Proserpine, Reformatory School for Boys, Lytton, Diamantina Reformatory School for Boys and Westbrook Reformatory for Boys. It records cases of serious misdemeanour heard before a Visiting Justice (Magistrate) from the Court of Petty Sessions, Toowoomba. Misdemeanours included: indecent…

Enoggera Boys’ Home

Enoggera Boys’ Home is an archival item at the Anglican Records and Archives Centre, Brisbane. It consists of loose notes and loose photographic prints, titled ‘Photographs 1950’ and ‘Histories 1906 – 1994’. Access Conditions Open access. Note: This webpage is no longer in operation. This URL is taken from the Wayback Machine and is dated…