State Archives New South Wales holds a file of records relating to Our Children’s Home, North Strathfield. The file contains: reports of alleged neglect and mistreatment of children; correspondence; field officers’ reports and periodical reports dealing with care, diets and accommodation of children; reviews of licence; matters regarding the care of children under 7; the…
Special Bundles are a series comprising 7 registered files with an ‘A’ prefix, which possibly may be from the Chief Secretary’s Department correspondence. The files deal with specific matters such as the management of reserves, Kinchela Lower and Kinchela Aboriginal Schools, appointments to the Aborigines Welfare Board. Much of the file for Tabulam Aboriginal Reserve…
Salary Registers (Trust Account) are volumes which record payments into and out of employers’ accounts and employees’ trust accounts. They record the employment history of Aboriginal people working for people other than the Board for the Protection of Aborigines. Access These records are Open access. For access please contact State Archives NSW. Records They are…
Certificates of Exemption could be granted to applicants who, in the opinion of the Aborigines Welfare Board, ought to no longer be subject to the provisions of the Aborigines Protection Act and Regulations. A recipient was no longer eligible to receive any benefit, assistance or relief from the Board, and had to undertake to provide…
Ledgers (Trust Account) are volumes where the Board for the Protection of Aborigines recorded information about moneys held in trust for Aboriginal people, apparently those under apprenticeship. The following information is recorded, the individuals name, credit and debit columns which detail moneys in and out of the account, interest, date of the transaction and the…
The Aborigines Welfare Board Photographs are images of Aboriginal people, numbering approximately 1000, and are a mixture of official and personal photographs. The photographs of an official nature show reserves, stations, homes and schools with interior and exterior views of accommodation and housing projects; pupils and teachers; station managers; and matrons. They also record the…
Applications for Certificates of Exemption is a series of records created by the Board for the Protection of Aborigines, and the Aborigines Welfare Board. Certificates of Exemption could be granted to an applicant who, in the opinion of the Aborigines Welfare Board, ought to no longer be subject to the provisions of the Aborigines Protection…
Aboriginal Boys’ Training Home, Kinchela, Case Papers is a series of files, relating children who resided at the Kinchela Training Home for Aboriginal Boys. The children ranged in age from approximately 7 to 17 years. The files vary in size and content and only relate to a small number of residents of Kinchela. This series…
Histories of Girls and Boys Unattached and for whom forms have not been prepared is an alphabetical register of Aboriginal children who were not State wards and therefore were not included in the Ward Registers. The children listed in this record lived independently of the Board for the Protection of Aborigines, or were placed in…
The Aborigines Welfare Board (formerly The Board for the Protection of Aborigines) held weekly meetings from 1890-1915 and then monthly meetings. These volumes comprise minutes of meetings of the Board to its final meeting when the Board was abolished and the Aborigines Welfare Directorate was established. This series has gaps, with periods missing from 1901…
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