This Archival Series contains individual student academic reports from the Christian Brothers schools in Clontarf and Bindoon. Held in 108 Archival Folders. Please note, sadly records are sometimes missing from Series like this one that cover such a wide period of time. Access Conditions For access to these records please contact Heritage and Information Service,…
Admission Registers is an archival series comprising scanned copies of the admission registers from these institutions: Bindoon, Castledare, Clontarf and Tardun, run by the Christian Brothers in WA. This Archival Series is made up of 15 PDFs of scanned registers. Access Conditions For access to these records please contact Heritage and Information Service, MacKillop Family…
The Christian Brothers Former Resident and Student Photographs series includes Photo albums containing photographs of boys at the four institutions – Clontarf, Castledare, Bindoon and Tardun. Many students have been identified in these albums. There is a group of photos called “Departure” which contain groups of child migrants from Malta and the UK before departure….
Subiaco Boys’ Orphanage for Roman Catholic boys was established by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Perth in 1872 and run by Benedictines (1872-1876) then the Sisters of Mercy (1876-1897), and the Christian Brothers (from 1897). In 1901 the orphanage moved to Manning and became known as Clontarf. The St Joseph’s Girls’ Orphanage was then established…
Records of Christian Brothers Children’s Institutions in Western Australia is held by MacKillop Family Services in Victoria. (Previously, until 2019, it was held by the Westcourt Archives, Western Australia.) The collection includes records from 1888 to 1983 relating to children’s institutions run by the Christian Brothers in Western Australia. The collection includes admission registers and…
The ‘Inquiry into Stolen Wages’ was referred to the Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee on 13 June 2006 to identify the number of Indigenous workers in each State and Territory ‘whose paid labour was controlled by government’, the measures that were taken to safeguard them, and the mechanisms for ensuring the wages earned were…
A Taskforce with the role of identifying the scope and extent of stolen wages in Western Australia was established in May 2007 by the State Government. The Taskforce found that there was insufficient evidence of wages held in trust being returned to the people who earned them. These people included Aboriginal children who had been…
The ‘Stolen Wages Reparation Scheme WA’ was established in 2012 as the Western Australian Government’s response to investigations by the Stolen Wages Taskforce into the wages earned by Aboriginal people but held by their guardians. The Taskforce’s research and consultations found that there was ‘little or no evidence that these wages were returned’ to the…
Father Hudson’s Society was one of the British Children’s Homes which sent child migrants to Australia. It was established in 1902 as the ‘Birmingham Diocesan Rescue Society for the Protection of Homeless and Friendless Catholic Children’ in Coleshill, Birmingham but was soon known as Father Hudson’s Society after its founder, Father George Vincent Hudson. In…
Father Hudson’s Society holds records for people who were sent as child migrants to Australia from the following Homes: St Edward’s Boys Home, Coventry Road, Coleshill; St Joan’s and the Nursery, Coventry Road, Coleshill; and St Paul’s, High Street, Coleshill. There may also be records from Nazareth House, Rednal, Birmingham. The files may be relevant…
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