The record series Duty Diaries contains the diaries of staff on duty at the Ashley Home for Boys. For each day different staff filled out the times of duties performed, as well as any incidents and events. Often the number of boys in sections are recorded. These records are part of the holdings of the…
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The Sisters of Mercy, Geelong Congregation, a Catholic religious order of women from Ireland, was established in 1859. The Sisters provided care for girls at St Augustine’s Boys’ Orphanage before opening Our Lady’s Orphanage and St Joseph’s Industrial School for girls. In 1907 the Sisters of Mercy started to consolidate the number of congregations across…
Case Study 11: Christian Brothers was a public hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, held in Perth from April to May 2014. It inquired into the experiences of former child residents at Castledare Junior Orphanage, St Vincent’s Orphanage Clontarf, St Mary’s Agricultural School Tardun, and Bindoon Farm School. During…
Case Study 17: Retta Dixon Home was a public hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, held in Darwin from September to November 2014. It inquired into the experiences of former child residents at Retta Dixon Home. During the hearings evidence was heard from former residents of Retta Dixon Home,…
Case Study 19: Bethcar Children’s Home was a public hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, held in Sydney from October to December 2014. It inquired into the experiences of former child residents at Bethcar Children’s Home, Brewarrina, New South Wales. During the hearings evidence was heard from former residents…
Case Study 26: St Joseph’s Orphanage, Neerkol was a public hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, held in Rockhampton in April 2015. It inquired into the experiences of former child residents at St Joseph’s Orphanage, Neerkol. During the hearings evidence was heard from former residents of St Joseph’s Orphanage,…
Case Study 33: The Salvation Army children’s Homes, Australia Southern Territory was a public hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, held in Adelaide in October 2015. It inquired into the experiences of former child residents at Eden Park Boys’ Home in South Australia, Box Hill Boys’ Home and Bayswater…
The record series Record of Admissions and Discharges contains a list of boys admitted to and discharged from Ashley Home for Boys, and the Ashley Youth Detention Centre. It shows admissions on the left and discharges on the right. It includes the dates, full name, the region and sometimes the length of stay. These records…
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