Please contact Catriona Milne, Manager Uniting Heritage Service:
Postal address: Locked Bag 8, A’Beckett Street PO, Melbourne VIC 8006
Phone: 0402 969 621
Email: Catriona.Milne@vt.uniting.org
Website: https://www.unitingvictas.org.au/services/family-services/heritage-service/
These records are held by Uniting (Victoria and Tasmania) Limited (2017 - current).
The Wesley Mission Victoria Records date from 1902. They include records of the Girls’ Memorial Home, The South Yarra Home, Tally Ho Boys’ Training Farm, Tally Ho Youth Services, Wesley Youth Services and Lincoln House. The records relate to children who were placed with these services. The types of records include admission book registers, individual files (1980’s onwards), photographic records and other memorabilia.
Former residents (and their families) should contact the Uniting Heritage Service to find information, and access personal files. The Uniting Heritage Service is a free service that helps individuals access information about them or family members, as well as access appropriate support should they choose. Heritage Service staff prefer to release records to past residents or their family members in person, where possible, in order to give greater meaning and context to the information.
The collection includes:
At this stage, there are no publicly available finding aids.
Before February 2010, this collection was titled “Records held by Wesley Mission Melbourne”.