This collection includes records of the Social Welfare Department and its predecessor Departments. It also includes some records from later Departments including the Department of Social Welfare and Aboriginal Affairs, and the Department for Community Welfare. Access Conditions For access to these records please contact State Records South Australia. A Research Centre Members card, obtainable…
This private collection of records containing information about St Francis House was assembled by John P McD Smith, whose father Percy McD Smith established St Francis House during 1946-1947. It contains photographs, news clippings, a film titled The Live Heart, a blank application form for St Francis House, and Percy Smith’s memoirs and other writings…
Records related to Church of England Social Welfare Bureau is a collection of records consisting of personal files relating to clients of the Church of England and Anglican Social Welfare Bureaus. This collection includes case registers and index cards which record information about all people assisted by the Bureau. Most children admitted to Anglican homes…
The collection Records related to former Church of England Children’s Homes held at the Anglican Archives dates from the 1860s to 1990. The records were created by the children’s Homes and other residences such as Farr House, St Mary’s Mission of Hope, and relate to children who were placed in them. The types of records…
The Orphan Home Inc collection includes Minute books of committee meetings, Matron’s reports, Admission records, Records book of Orphan Home residents, Letter books, Matron’s gift book, Visitor’s books, Lists of subscribers, Annual reports, Plans for alterations and additions and Financial records. Access Conditions For access to these records please contact the State Library of South…
Records of the Babies’ Home, Walkerville, comprises minute books, inventory book, certificate of title, committee and membership lists, child endowment schedule of admissions and discharges, nursery times, plan of proposed Mothercraft Training Centre, financial records, list of children’s clothes and Annual Report for 1945. Access Conditions For access to many Anglican records held at the…
Boy Farm Apprenticeship Scheme South Australia is a file held by the National Archives of Australia. This file informs us about the attitudes in the 1920s towards youth migration between South Australia and Britain. Quantity: 11 pages. Access Conditions Open. This record is open but not digitised. Records Premier, South Australia to Prime Minister, 9…
This series comprises the applications and related records of assisted passage agricultural labourers who migrated to South Australia between 1911 and 1914. These files were maintained by the immigration section of the Intelligence and Tourist Bureau, with information forwarded by the South Australian Emigration Agent in the United Kingdom. Access Conditions A Research Centre Members…
This file contains correspondence between the Prime Minister’s Department, the Commonwealth Immigration Office and the Premier’s Department, South Australia, relating to the scheme to introduce 6 000 British boys for farm work, 2 000 per year for three years, commencing in 1922. Quantity: 65 pages. Access Conditions Open. Under the Archives Act 1983, most Commonwealth…
This series consists of completed application forms giving personal details, address in the United Kingdom, referees, name of parent or guardian, date of arrival in South Australia and the name of the ship. Also contains correspondence between the child and the Department and between the Department and the farmer with whom the child worked. A…
Dec 18, 2024
Nov 15, 2024
