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Victoria - Publications Details
Book
Author
Barnard, Jill; Twigg, Karen
Title
Holding on to Hope: a history of the founding agencies of MacKillop Family Services 1854-1997
Imprint
Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2004
Related Entries
Events
Emergency Shelter: early colonial child welfare (1835 - 1850)
Opening of Victoria's first children's institution (1850)
Wattle Day Appeal (c. 1910 - c. 1975)
Glossary Terms
Family Group Home
Siblings in Care
Legislation
The Neglected and Criminal Children's Act 1864 (1864 - 1888)
Organisations
Catholic Social Service Bureau (1935 - 1998)
Charities Board of Victoria (1923 - 1948)
Child Saving Council (1910 - 1912)
Christian Brothers (1868 - )
Convent of the Good Shepherd, Abbotsford (1863 - 1974)
Friendly Brothers' Society (1845 - c. 1880)
Geelong Orphan Asylum (c. 1854 - 1862)
Government Welfare Training Council (1963 - )
MacKillop Family Services (1997 - )
McAuley House (1942 - 1965)
Mercy Family Care Centre (c. 1975 - 1997)
Our Lady's Orphanage (c. 1862 - 1912)
Sisters of Mercy, Melbourne (1857 - 2011)
St Anthony's Children's Home (c. 1921 - 1943)
St Anthony's Home (1943 - 1976)
St Augustine's Boys' Home (1966 - 1988)
St Augustine's Boys' Orphanage (c. 1855 - 1939)
St Augustine's Orphanage (1939 - 1966)
St Catherine's Children's Home (1960 - 1975)
St Catherine's Orphanage (1912 - 1960)
St James' Orphan Asylum and Visiting Society (c. 1845 - 1853)
St Joseph's Babies' and Family Service (1985 - 1997)
St Joseph's Foundling Hospital (1901 - 1975)
St Joseph's Home for Destitute Children, Sisters of St Joseph (1890 - 1925)
St Joseph's Home for Destitute Children, The Society of St Vincent de Paul (1888 - 1890)
St Joseph's Nursery (1959 - 1976?)
St Joseph's Receiving Home (1902 - 1985)
St Vincent de Paul Boys' Home (1967 - 1997)
St Vincent de Paul Child and Family Services (1992 - 1997)
St Vincent de Paul Children's Home (1962 - 1992)
St Vincent de Paul Orphanage (1857 - 1874)
St Vincent de Paul Orphanage for Boys (1874 - 1967)
St Vincent de Paul Orphanage, Prahran (1854 - 1857)
St Vincent de Paul's Girls' Orphanage (1874 - 1962)
pp. 21, 51
St Vincent's Hostel (1924 - 1967)
Young Catholic Workers' Hostel (1946 - 1963)
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