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Western Australia - Organisation
The Alexandra Home for Mothers and Babies (Inc) and Mothercraft Training School (1950 - 1956)
- From
- 1950
- To
- 1956
- Categories
- Care Provider, Adoption Agency, Home, Maternity Home
- Alternative Names
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The Alexandra Home for Mothers and Babies (Inc) and Mothercraft Training School was the new name given in 1950 to the Alexandra Home for Women in Highgate. It was run by a private committee of management and continued as a maternity home for unmarried mothers while also becoming Western Australia's first training school for mothercraft nurses. In 1956 it was re-named Ngal-a Mothercraft Home and Training Centre Inc, remaining in the Highgate premises.
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The Alexandra Home for Mothers and Babies (Inc) and Mothercraft Training School (also known as the Alexandra Home) was both a maternity home and a training facility for mothercraft nurses. It was located in Lincoln Street, Highgate, in the premises that had originally been acquired for the House of Mercy in 1901, and which had continued from 1916 as the Alexandra Home for Women.
Babies were born at the King Edward Memorial Hospital, and mothers and babies came to the Home afterwards. It was not uncommon for babies born to the mothers in the Home to be adopted either privately or through the government department in charge of child welfare.
In 1956, The Alexandra Home for Mothers and Babies (Inc) and Mothercraft Training School changed its name to Ngal-a Mothercraft Home and Training Centre Inc (Ngala). As Ngala, it continued in the Lincoln Street premises until 1959.
Locations
- 1950 - 1956
- Location - The Alexandra Home for Mothers and Babies (Inc) and Mothercraft Training School was located in Lincoln Street, Highgate
Timeline
- 1916 - 1950
- Alexandra Home for Women
- 1950 - 1956
- The Alexandra Home for Mothers and Babies (Inc) and Mothercraft Training School
- 1956 - 1989
- Ngal-a Mothercraft Home and Training Centre Inc
- Series Title
- Files - Child Welfare, State Records Office of Western Australia (1917 - 1972)
- Date Range
- 1917 - 1972
- Reference
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3172
[State Records Office of Western Australia Series Number]
- Contact
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For access to records controlled by the Department of Communities and its predecessors, please contact the Department of Communities Freedom of Information Unit:
Postal Address: Freedom of Information, Department of Communities, Locked Bag 5000, Fremantle WA 6959
Phone: (08) 6414 3344
Email: foi@communities.wa.gov.au
Website :https://www.wa.gov.au/government/document-collections/department-of-communities-freedom-of-information-foi
DETAILS
- Item Title
- Interview with Helen Jean Duncan, State Library of Western Australia (1977)
- Date Range
- 1977 - 1977
- Reference
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OH244
[State Library of Western Australia Call Number]
- Contact
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Please contact the State Library of Western Australia:
Postal address: 25 Francis Street, Perth WA 6000
Phone: (08) 9427 3111
Email: info@slwa.wa.gov.au
Website: http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au
DETAILS
- Item Title
- Beryl Grant interviewed by Christine Choo in the Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project (2011)
- Date Range
- 2011 - 2011
- Reference
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5755519
[National Library of Australia Bib ID]
- Contact
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Please contact a Librarian at Reader Services, National Library of Australia:
Address: National Library of Australia, Canberra ACT 2600
Phone: (02) 6262 1266
Fax: (02) 6273 5081
Website: http://www.nla.gov.au/askalibrarian/
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Alexandra Home for Mothers and Babies 1950s
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