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Files (Aboriginal Matters) – Department of the North West [1]

Files (Aboriginal Matters) is a records series created by the Department of the North West, and held by the State Records Office of Western Australia. It contains records created and used by the department relating to the administrations of missions, the removal of Aboriginal children from their families, movement of Aboriginal people, applications for employment,…

Reports – Aboriginal Missions

Reports – Aboriginal Missions is a records series created by the Aborigines Department and its successor, the Department of Aborigines and Fisheries, and held at the State Records Office of Western Australia. It includes six reports on several missions in the North-West region of Western Australia, including Beagle Bay Mission (also referred to as the…

Files (Moola Bulla Station)

Files (Moola Bulla Station) is a record series created by Moola Bulla Station and the Department of Aborigines and Fisheries, and held by the State Records Office of Western Australia. It contains records relating to the administration, finances, and management of Moola Bulla Station, including items relating to wages, expenditure, mail service, stores, and livestock….

Personal Cards

Personal Cards is a series created by the Western Australia Department of Native Affairs (and its predecessors) and held by the State Records Office of Western Australia. It contains approximately 5,500 cards relating to individual Aboriginal people who were removed from different areas around Western Australia and sent to Carrolup Native Settlement and Moore River…

Moore River Native Settlement Medical Officer Letters

Moore River Native Settlement Medical Officer Letters is a record series held at the State Records Office of Western Australia. It contains correspondence between the medical officer of Moore River Native Settlement and the Department of Native Affairs (and predecessors) relating to the medical services provided at the settlement. It is unknown is this series…

Heathcote Mental Reception Home – Monthly Returns of Patients

Heathcote Mental Reception Home – Monthly Returns of Patients is a file created by the Board of Visitors – Heathcote Mental Hospital and held by the State Records Office of Western Australia. This file contains financial returns information for the Heathcote Mental Hospital, and is likely to contain names of individual patients. Access Access to…

Charge Books

This series contains Charge Books created by the Perth Children’s Court, later known as the Children’s Court of Western Australia. It includes records about sittings for children charged with offences at the Perth, Fremantle, and Rockingham courts. These records are likely to include information about children who were placed into state care. Access The majority…

Correspondence Files – Kalgoorlie Office

Correspondence Files – Kalgoorlie Office is a records series that contains two items of correspondence from the Kalgoorlie office of the Child Welfare Department. The items relate to Wards of the State at Kurrawang Mission, and to children in and around the Kalgoorlie district committed to the care of the Child Welfare Department. Access Access…

Files – General [Health Department]

Files – General is a series of records created by the Central Board of Health, the Public Health Department, and the Health Department of Western Australia. It is the main series of files for these agencies, and includes records dealing with public health, sanitation, hospitals and medical institutions, correspondence with local boards of health, environmental…

Administration Files – South West District Office [S.D. Sequence]

Administration Files – South West District Office [S.D. Sequence] is a series containing records created by the South West Division of the Department of Native Welfare and the Department of Native Affairs. The files are concerned with education, health, housing, employment, missions and reserves, and staffing. Gnowangerup, Narrogin, Collie, Katanning, Kojonup, Broomehill, Dumbleyung, Tambellup and…