The State Records Office of Western Australia holds a collection of records created by Fremantle Asylum. This collection includes record series relating to patients, including admissions, discharges, treatments, case notes, and “occurrences”. These records relate to patients admitted to Fremantle Asylum, however they also include some records relating to patients transferred to Claremont Mental Hospital….
Gilead Boys’ Home was established in Narrogin around 1973 to accommodate Aboriginal boys in a family atmosphere. In the mid-1970s Gilead was used as a single-family foster placement by the Department for Community Welfare, accommodating boys and girls. It was run by the Gilead Boys Home (Inc), with house parents living with the children. It…
Indentures (Guardianship) is a series of records created by the Child Welfare Department of Western Australia. It contains records about guardianship and custody of child migrants. The records consist of legal agreements between the Under Secretary for Lands and Immigration (who was the legal guardian of child migrants in Western Australia), and the children’s homes,…
Sister Edie Owens diary, 1940-1941 is a diary created by a Methodist Sister of the People who worked at the United Aborigines Mission, Gnowangerup. The hand-written diary gives Sr Edie Owens’ (later Cowdell) impressions of daily life at the mission. It is held by the State Library of Western Australia. The diary has entries for…
Schenk family papers is a collection of items donated by the Schenk family to the State Library of Western Australia. Roy Schenk established the Mount Margaret Mission as an Australian Aborigines Mission facility (it was later run by the United Aborigines Mission). The collection, which is described by a Manuscript Note, includes correspondence, diaries, historical…
Marribank Farm Training School was continued on the site of the Carrolup Native Settlement when the Settlement closed in June 1951. Some teenage Aboriginal boys from Carrolup were the first residents. In June 1952, the government closed the Marribank Farm Training School, which re-opened later in 1952 on the same site, as a Baptist Union…
Show us a light [videorecording]: the art of Carrolup is a videocassette recording about the Aboriginal ‘child artists’ at the Carrolup settlement during the 1940s and1950s. It was produced for the Marribank Family Centre in the 1980s. This item is held at the State Library of Western Australia. Access Conditions Open. Please apply to the…
The Marribank Children’s Homes [Katanning] is a small collection of information about Marribank, which was run by the Baptist Aboriginal Mission on behalf of the Baptist Union in Western Australia. The collection is held by the State Library of Western Australia. Access Conditions Open. Please contact the State Library of Western Australia so the item…
Records of Warburton Mission: 1949-1967 (incomplete) [manuscript] is a collection of records relating to the United Aborigines Mission at Warburton. The collection is held by the State Library of Western Australia and includes day books, and journals of telegrams and radio messages for the years 1949, 1951, 1952, 1955-1956, 1962-1964, and 1966-67. Access Conditions Open….
The Royal Commission appointed to Inquire into the Care and Reform of Youthful Delinquents was established in Western Australia on 11 May 1943 and reported on 10 August 1943. Key recommendations included establishing a cross-Departmental Children’s Council, ‘drastically’ restricting the publication of Children’s Court proceedings; improving remand facilities and constructing secure detention facilities for boys…
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