CatholicCare’s archival collection dates between 1959 to 1979, with much of it relating to St Joseph’s Child Care Centre. Among other items, it includes minutes of meetings with cottage parents and progress reports of the children written by houseparents. The records mention a number of children’s names and a few include school reports and examples…
Willowbend Family Group Home, run by the government, opened in about 1990. It was in Kingston. The Home closed around 2005.
Mosley Receiving Home, run by the government, opened in New Town in 1974. It provided temporary accommodation to children who were wards of state or supervised in other ways by the Social Welfare Department. In about 1980, the Home became Mosley Family Group Home. A married woman, known as a Receiving Home Keeper, managed Mosley…
The Hobart Receiving Home, run by the government, opened in 1898. It provided accommodation for wards of the state until a more permanent foster home could be found for them. The Home closed in 1958. The Hobart Receiving Home was in a stone building at 77 Argyle Street on the intersection with Melville Street. It…
The Register of the Admission of ‘Mental Defectives’ lists people living at the New Town Infirmary, and the institutions that superseded it, who were registered as ‘mental defects’ under the Mental Deficiency Act 1920. The age ranges were from 10 to 54. Access Conditions Open Records The Register gives the person’s name, age, date of…
The Department of Public Health General Correspondence, an archival series, contains files pertaining to the activities of the Public Health Department between 1920 and 1956. The records in this series primarily relate to public hospitals and healthcare, sanitation, child welfare, and control of infectious diseases. It also includes several items related to complaints made regarding…
Bevis Marks Receiving Home, run by the government, opened in South Hobart in 1973. It provided temporary accommodation to children who were wards of state or supervised in other ways by the Social Welfare Department. In about 1980, it became Bevis Marks Family Group Home. Bevis Marks Receiving Home opened in December 1973. It was…
Karadi opened in Launceston around 1960. It was attached to the Queen Victoria Hospital. Karadi was originally a hostel for the relatives of out of town patients. Later it housed expectant mothers from King and Flinders Islands. The Catholic Welfare Family Bureau used Karadi for single mothers and organised adoptions from there. It closed around…
St Joseph’s Crisis Accommodation Centre, run by Centacare, replaced St Joseph’s Child Care Centre in 1978. It offered accommodation to families with housing problems.
Bimbadeen Family Group Home was opened by the Sisters of Charity in 1976 in a suburban home in Blackman’s Bay. It provided cottage accommodation to children who had been placed there by their parents or who were wards of the state. Bimbadeen was run by a married couple who were the house parents to six…
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