The Convent of Mercy Archives hold the records of the Sisters of Mercy Parramatta Congregation and records of St Brigid’s Girls Home Ryde and St Michael’s Home, Baulkham Hills.
St Brigid’s Girls’ Home opened in 1898 at Ryde and was operated by the Sisters of Mercy Parramatta Congregation. It housed girls aged 5 to 15 years. St Brigid’s Girls’ Home closed in 1978. St Brigid’s Girls’ Home was opened, under the patronage of Cardinal Moran, on 17 June 1898. Records of the Home are…
The Sisters of Mercy, Parramatta Congregation are an order of Catholic nuns who were responsible for the administration of St Brigid’s Girls’ Home, Ryde, 1898-1978 and St Michael’s Home, Baulkham Hills, 1902-83. The Sisters of Mercy ran also ran St Michael’s Family Centre, on the site of the old children’s home. In 2012 they announced…
Our Lady of Mercy Home was established in 1928 and was formerly known as Waitara Foundling Home and usually just as Waitara. The Home cared for children from birth to the age of 15, and from 1970, children aged 7-12. It also housed unmarried mothers. Our Lady of Mercy Home Waitara was replaced by the…
The Mercy Family Life Centre Waitara was previously known as Our Lady of Mercy Home and was run by the Sisters of Mercy. It was built in a part of the grounds of the old Waitara Orphanage (Our Lady of Mercy) in 1977. In 1994, it was incorporated and became the Mercy Family Centre. Mercy…
The Waitara Foundling Home was established in 1898 by the Sisters of Mercy, North Sydney Congregation as a home for babies and for unmarried mothers, who were referred from hospitals throughout the eastern states of Australia. In 1928 the Waitara Foundling Home was renamed Our Lady of Mercy Home. The Waitara Foundling Home was first…
The Sisters of Mercy Archives are located in North Sydney and were established in 1865 at the same time as the North Sydney Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy. These Archives previously held the records of children’s Homes run by the Sisters of Mercy. Photos from St Catherine’s and Waitara Homes are kept at North…
St Catherine’s Orphanage was a children’s home run by the Sisters of Mercy at Brooklyn, on the Hawkesbury River. St Catherine’s Orphanage had been St Carthage’s College for Young Ladies. It was primarily a girls’ home, although some of the girls’ brothers lived in the home while they were young. It closed in 1990. St…
The Sisters of Mercy, North Sydney Congregation, is a Catholic order of nuns established in Sydney 1865. They were responsible for the administration of St Carthage’s College for Young Ladies (1907-1931), St Catherine’s Home, Brooklyn (1931-1990) and Waitara Foundling Home (later known as Our Lady of Mercy Home from 1898 to 1977. It also ran…
St Patrick’s Homes, run by the Sisters of Mercy, were formed in 1976 when the remaining children from St Patrick’s Orphanage were moved to two cottages in Armidale. The cottages closed in 1984.
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