Resource

Title

Child migration

Imprint

National Archives of Australia

Url

https://www.naa.gov.au/explore-collection/immigration-and-citizenship/child-migration

Description

The National Archives of Australia holds a lot of information about child migration to this country. This page some of these records and how to access them.

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)
• 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)
• Child migration selection documents - Maltese children, form L.E.M. 3 (medical examination forms attached), lexicographical series, National Archives of Australia (1947 - 1959)

Events

• Child and Youth Migration to Western Australia (1913 - 1968)

Glossary Terms

• Child Migrant

Organisations

• Bindoon (1936 - 1966)
• Castledare (1934 - 1983)
• Clontarf (1901 - 1983)
• Fairbridge Farm School, Pinjarra (1913 - 1981)
• Nazareth House (1941 - 1979?)
• St Joseph's Girls' Orphanage (1901 - 1971)
• St Vincent's Foundling Home (1914 - 1971)