St John’s Home, Auburn Street Goulburn, provided care for girls and boys and was established in 1976 when St John’s Home, Goulburn and St Joseph’s, Goulburn were amalgamated. It closed in 1987.
St Joseph’s Orphanage, Goulburn, was run by the Sisters of Mercy from 1864. It was located at the corner of Clinton and Bourke Streets, Goulburn from 1880 until 1905, when the children were moved to a new site in Kenmore. It provided care for girls aged 5 to 16 years. In 1976 the Home amalgamated…
The Sisters of Mercy, Goulburn Congregation, a Catholic religious order of women from Ireland, was established in 1859. In 1907 the Sisters of Mercy started to consolidate the number of congregations across Australia and amalgamated Goulburn with the congregations in Albury (1868) and Yass (1875). The Sisters were responsible for the administration of several children’s…
The Holy Family Children’s Home was established at Marayong in Sydney’s west in 1956 by the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth. It cared for boys and girls, usually migrant children from Poland or Malta. The Holy Family Children’s Home closed in 1985. In 2013 the site of the former Holy Family Children’s Home…
St Joseph’s Orphanage, Bathurst was operated by the Sisters of Mercy from 1867 to 1975, and cared for girls. It was initially located next to the Bathurst Cathedral, and in 1912 re-located to ‘Holmhurst’, a large house on William Street, Bathurst. It closed in 1975. After the closure of St Joseph’s Orphanage in 1975, some…
The Home of the Good Shepherd was a convent and industrial school that was opened by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in 1913. It was located in Victoria Street, Ashfield and cared for women and girls, mainly referred from the courts but sometimes placed voluntarily by families or guardians. Children from the Northern Territory…
The Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth are a religious order of women. The order was founded in 1875. The Sisters ran the Holy Family Children’s Home from 1956-1985. (Please note that this order is different to the Sisters of Nazareth who ran children’s institutions in Victoria, Western Australia and Queensland.)
Mater Dei Orphanage was located at Narellan. The property was formerly known as ‘Wivenhoe’ and was purchased by the Trustees of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan in 1910 to serve as an orphanage for girls aged to 16 years and boys aged up to 12. Mater Dei Orphanage changed to Mater Dei School, a…
Mater Dei School is located at Narellan, near Camden. It is a special school, with a residential programme, that was established by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan in 1957. It was previously the Mater Dei Orphanage. Records of children who have attended Mater Dei School since 1957 are held at the school. In 2011…
The Balmain Industrial School was established at Balmain in 1910 by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan. The Sisters had conducted primary, secondary and boarding schools at Balmain since the 1860s and when the Manly Industrial School and Orphanage closed, Cardinal Moran allowed them to use the Balmain Convent for a domestic training school for…
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