Please contact the General Manager of Heritage and Information Service, MacKillop Family Services:
Postal Address: 237 Cecil Street, South Melbourne VIC 3205
Phone: (03) 9699 9177
Email: enquiry@mackillop.org.au
These records are held by MacKillop Family Services (1997 - current).
Records of Christian Brothers Children’s Institutions in Western Australia is held by MacKillop Family Services in Victoria. (Previously, until 2019, it was held by the Westcourt Archives, Western Australia.) The collection includes records from 1888 to 1983 relating to children’s institutions run by the Christian Brothers in Western Australia. The collection includes admission registers and photographs along with some other records about Subiaco Boys’ Orphanage; Bindoon; Castledare; Clontarf Boys’ Orphanage; and Tardun Farm School.
Conditional Access – Former residents (and their families) can contact the Heritage and Information Service at MacKillop Family Services to gain access to records. The Heritage and Information Service recommends people contact them through the Records Enquiry Form on the website.
The collection dates from 1888 until 1983 when the Christian Brothers stopped being a ‘care provider’. The Christian Brothers collection contains admission registers from the Children’s Homes run by the Christian Brothers and an admission register from the Subiaco Boys’ Orphanage which had been run by the Benedictines and the Sisters of Mercy before the Christian Brothers took over. The admission registers are incomplete. There are also photographs in the collection, some of the photographs held in the collection identify the children pictured, but most do not. There are some other records.
This collection was transferred from the Christian Brothers Oceania Province in Western Australia to the custody of MacKillop Family Services in Victoria in August, 2019.
The collection includes records about: