This is an image of the Dill Macky Mermorial Home, Strathfield. It shows a very large two-storey building with verandah’s spanning its front. This image was published in The Daily Telegraph on 20 March 1922 alongside an article marking the formal opening of the home.
This is an image of the Allanville Home in Wellington, New South Wales. This photo is undated, the dates included are an estimate.
This is a digital copy of a photograph held by the State Library of New South Wales. It is located within the collection called: Series 02: Alma Smith & Alva Atkins photographs of missions in New South Wales, 1909-1970.
[Personal records of Prime Minister Hawke] Alternative employment, homeless children, kibbutz development is a file at the National Archives of Australia. There is a digital copy of the file available from the NAA website. The file contains information relating to the New South Wales Homeless Children’s Association. Prime Minister Hawke was a member of the…
The Forest Farm Community was an initiative of the New South Wales Homeless Children’s Association. In 1981, the NSW Lands Department donated a 160 acre reserve of land to the Association. It was at Mangrove Mountain, near Gosford, on the central coast north of Sydney. The Association had ambitious plans for the Forest Farm Community…
Please contact the The Registrar, Anglican Diocese of Armidale: Address: PO Box 198, Armidale NSW 2350 Phone: (02) 6772 4491 Email: registrar@armidaleanglicandiocese.com
The Department of Communities and Justice, New South Wales, was created on 1 July 2019. It brings together the former Departments of Family and Community Services (FACS), and Justice.
Caretakers Cottage has a historical archive, and publishes some records from this collection on its website. The Find & Connect web resource has no information about what records are held about former residents and clients of Caretakers Cottage.
The Margaret Hallstrom Home for Unmarried Mothers opened in Marion Street, Leichhardt in 1968 by the Central Methodist Mission. The exact closing date of the Margaret Hallstrom Home for Unmarried Mothers is unknown, but it is believed to have closed around 1977. The need for a new Home for unmarried pregnant women was identified in…
The Legion of Catholic Women was a community of Catholic women in Sydney. It was established in 1913 as the Catholic Women’s Association, and changed its name to Legion of Catholic Women in 1941. According to Francis, ‘its aim was to provide Catholic women of Sydney with a broader society, one which crossed parish boundaries…