This 1-page digitised document is an extract from a register created by the Scots’ Church Neglected Children’s Aid Society.
This 1-page digitised document is an extract from the annual report of the Ballarat District Orphan Asylum for the year 1866.
The inscription reads: Presented to Miss Sutherland, by a few of the girls whose lives have been blessed through her loving labours in connection with the Scots’ Church Children’s Aid Society as a small token of their heartfelt gratitude and esteem. Melbourne, August 23rd 1886. The bible contains some press clippings, presumably kept there by…
This image shows a blank Admittance Form, used by the Foundling Hospital and Infants’ Home. Typical information recorded about an infant in its Admittance Form included: Name of child; Date of admission; Details of parents or guardian. The institution used this format, with Admittance Forms bound in a ‘red book’, from 1940 to 1974. Typical…
This two-storey building was constructed c.1884. Before the building at 187 Scott Parade was built for the Alexandra Babies’ Home (later known as the Alexandra Toddlers’ Home), babies and their mothers were accommodated at this site.
This single storey building at 187 Scott Parade was constructed in 1909 for the Alexandra Babies’ Home (later known as the Alexandra Toddlers’ Home). Previously, babies and their mothers were accommodated at the two-storey building at 183 Scott Parade (the former Ballarat Female Refuge). It would seem that babies and toddlers were accommodated in both…
This image shows the Church of England Mission House.
Spring Street – west side, near corner with Little Lonsdale Street, showing Church of England Mission House