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Western Australia - Organisation
Women's Home, Fremantle (1909 - )
- From
- 1909
- Categories
- Maternity Home, Disability Institution, Temporary Care, Female Rescue Home, Government-run
- Alternative Names
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- The Home for Women, Fremantle
The Women's Home in Fremantle was established by the government as a continuation of the Female Home (Women's Home, Poor House) in Perth. Children and women who were intellectually disabled, destitute or pregnant and destitute, were moved from Perth into the buildings that had previously been the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum. It seems that very few children were admitted after the relocation, but it continued to function as a lying-in home for single and destitute women.
Locations
- 17 November 1909 - 17 November 1909
- Location - The Women's Home at Fremantle was established in Fremantle by the government to accommodate women and children from the Women's Home (Poor House, Female Home) in Perth. They moved to what had been the Lunatic Asylum
Timeline
- 1851 - 1909
- Female Home [Poor House, Perth]
- 1909 -
- Women's Home, Fremantle
- Series Title
- Files - Department of Aborigines and Fisheries (1909 - 1920)
- Date Range
- 1909 - 1920
- Reference
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S1644
[State Records Office of Western Australia Reference code]
- Contact
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Please contact Aboriginal History Research Services, Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries:
Postal Address: PO Box 8349, Perth Business Centre WA 6849
Phone: 1800 161 301
Email: ahrs@dlgsc.wa.gov.au
Website :https://www.dlgsc.wa.gov.au/aboriginal-history/aboriginal-history-research-services
DETAILS
Report by the Superintendent of Public Charities, 1910