Please contact the Anglican Records and Archives Centre: Postal Address: GPO Box 421, Brisbane QLD 4001 Phone: (07) 3835 2333 Email: archives@anglicanchurchsq.org.au Website: https://www.anglicanchurchsq.org.au/archives
Please contact The Brother Provincial Hospitaller, Order of St. John of God: Postal address: Provincial Office, 31 Burwood Road, PO Box BN1055, Burwood North NSW 2134 Phone: (02) 9747 1699 Email: provincial@oh.org.au Website: https://www.oh.org.au/contact-us/
The records about Tufnell Home, Nundah at the Anglican Records and Archives Centre include Admissions Book, Baptism Registers, correspondence, day to day diaries, case files and medical records created by Tufnell Home. The collection has records dated from 1893 to the 1990s. The Anglican Diocese of Brisbane supports the efforts of past residents of Tufnell…
The Admission Registers relate to the Rockhampton Orphanage, later Rockhampton Receiving Depot. This register of admissions to Rockhampton Orphanage includes the following details for each child: admission number, name of child, place and date of birth, date of admission, reason for admission and on what terms admitted, date and to whom the child was discharged,…
Please contact the Right to Information Unit, Department of Families, Seniors, Disability Services and Child Safety Postal address: RTI, Privacy, Records Management and Redress Department of Families, Seniors, Disability Services and Child Safety Locked Bag 3405 Brisbane Qld 4001 Phone: 1800 809 078 (freecall) Email: rti@cyjma.qld.gov.au Website: https://www.dcssds.qld.gov.au/about-us/our-department/right-information
The Home of the Good Shepherd, in Ormiston was run by the Sisters of the Sacred Advent at Ormiston House, near Cleveland. The home trained homeless girls aged 12 to 13 in domestic service, with girls initially transferred from the Home of the Good Shepherd, Nundah. It opened in 1897 and closed in 1913 as…
The Queensland Association for the Saving of Infant Life was established in 1916 by a group of private citizens in response to the high death rate of infants under one year old. The association ran Corinda Infants’ Home, Duncan’s Infant Home and St Agnes Babies Home.
The Xavier Home for Crippled Children, in Coorparoo, operated from 1949 to 1994. The weatherboard house was purchased by the Xavier Society in the 1940s to become a Home for children afflicted by polio. It was officially opened by Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane Duhig on 15 May 1949. From 1951, the Xavier Home was run by…
Duncan Infants’ Home was run by a private management committee known as the Queensland Association for the Saving of Infant Life. It was established in January 1921 and in March 1922 it moved to Oxley. The Home was renamed St Agnes Babies’ Home. From the first week of January 1921 the home operated out of…
The St Vincent’s Orphanage, in Nudgee, was operated by the Order of the Sisters of Mercy. It was established in 1867 when children were transferred from New Farm St Vincent’s to the property at Nudgee. In 1935 the name was changed to St Vincent’s Children’s Home. In the 1860s orphaned and homeless children were living…
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