Resource

Creator

Coldrey, Barry

Title

Good British Stock: Child and Youth Migration to Australia

Type of Work

Finding Aid

Imprint

National Archives of Australia, 1999

Url

https://www.naa.gov.au/help-your-research/research-guides/good-british-stock-child-and-youth-migration-australia

Description

This guide gives information about Australia's immigration policy and child and youth migration to Australia, including information about relevant archival records in Australia and overseas, especially Britain and Malta.

Related Entries

Archival Collections

• Records of child migration to Western Australia, National Archives of Australia (1947 - 1959)

Archival Items

• Overseas Children Scheme - Record of custodians and children (Western Australia) (1940 - 1943)

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• St. Josephs Orphanage and St. Vincents Foundling Home, Leederville, Western Australia (1948 - 1951)

Archival Series

• Books of duplicate naturalization certificates, 'EA' [Children (special cases)] series (1949 - 1958)
• Child migration selection documents - British children, form L.E.M. 3 (medical examination forms attached), lexicographical series (1946 - 1960)

Events

• Child and Youth Migration to Western Australia (1913 - 1968)
• Inquiry into child migration (2000 - 2001)

Glossary Terms

• Child Migrant

Legislation

• Empire Settlement Act, Commonwealth of Australia (1922 - 1976)
• Immigration (Guardianship of Children) Act 1946, Commonwealth of Australia (1946 - 1973)

Organisations

• Bindoon (1936 - 1966)
• Castledare (1934 - 1983)
• Clontarf (1901 - 1983)
• Fairbridge Farm School, Pinjarra (1913 - 1981)
• National Archives of Australia (1998 - )
• Nazareth House (1941 - 1979?)
• Perth Girls' Orphanage (1868 - 1942)
• St Joseph's Girls' Orphanage (1901 - 1971)
• St Vincent's Foundling Home (1914 - 1971)
• Swan Homes (1943 - 1959)