The Alphabetical Admission Register was created at the Boys’ Training School between 1912 and 1922. It includes each boy’s name, age, home district, birthplace, offence, and other remarks. Access Conditions Open
The General Welfare Case Files concern children who were wards of state, child migrants, and individuals or families who applied for financial assistance from the government between 1915 and 1994. Access Conditions Closed D75 years D75 means these records are closed to the general public for 75 years from the date of the last entry…
The Patient Records – Admission Register pertain to the Lunatic Asylum, Hospital for the Insane, Mental Diseases Hospital, and Lachlan Park Hospital between 1830 and 1954. Access Conditions Open. The register dated 1830-1900 has been digitised and is available online. Records The records contain the patient’s number, name, age, marital status, occupation, date of admission,…
The Patient Files pertain to the Lunatic Asylum, Hospital for the Insane, Mental Diseases Hospital, Lachlan Park Hospital, and the Royal Derwent Hospital between 1857 and 1993. The titles of the files include the patients name. Access Conditions Closed E75 years E75 means that records in this series that have final entries less than 75…
The General Correspondence of the Chief Secretary’s Department contains the correspondence of the Chief Secretary’s Department, later the Chief Secretary Department and Premier’s Office, between 1897 and 1946. Access Conditions Open Records Between 1896 and 1923-24, there was a close relationship between the Chief Secretary’s Department and the Neglected Children’s Department which means that there…
The Ministerial Files and Associated Papers – Unregistered concern the portfolios of lands, national parks and wildlife, social welfare and international year of the disabled. They include several items related to children’s homes and youth matters. Access Conditions Open Records The following items in this series relate to children’s homes and youth matters: Item Number:…
The Applications and Associated Correspondence for Compassionate Allowances contains case files of individuals who applied for financial assistance from the state government. Since poverty often led to children becoming wards of state, these files may contain valuable information for some Care Leavers and their families. Access Conditions Closed D75 D75 means these records are closed…
The Wybra Hall Admissions and Discharges Register contains basic information about children who lived at Wybra Hall between 1956 when the Home opened and 1988 when it closed. Access conditions Closed E75 years Closed E75 means that records in this series that have final entries less than 75 years old are closed to the general…
The records of the Churches of Christ are deposited at the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office. They consist of minutes, annual reports, and correspondence between 1943 and 1989. There is information about Bethany Boys’ Home in these records. Access Conditions Open Records More specifically the records include: Minutes of the Tasmanian District Conference of the…
The General Records of the Society, deposited by the Fairbridge Drake Society in 1991, concern Tresca, the Fairbridge Home in Exeter between 1958 and 1976. They include administrative records, 13 personal files, photographs, and annual reports. Access Conditions Closed B75 years B75 means that these records are closed to the general public for 75 years…
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