The records of the Churches of Christ are deposited at the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office. They consist of minutes, annual reports, and correspondence between 1943 and 1989. There is information about Bethany Boys’ Home in these records. Access Conditions These records are open and accessible by the public. For access to these records please…
The General Records of the Society, deposited by the Fairbridge Drake Society in 1991, concern Tresca, the Fairbridge Home in Exeter between 1958 and 1976. They include administrative records, 13 personal files, photographs, and annual reports. Access Conditions Closed B75 years B75 means that these records are closed to the general public for 75 years…
The Register of Wards of State contains information about every child who became a ward of state between 1897 and 1989. The Register includes the name, the age or date of birth, the cause of committal, the town or locality of origin, the date of admission, the level of education, the amount of maintenance the…
The Christian Brethren first came to Tasmania in 1869. They are an evangelical Protestant church with no ordained ministers and a strong lay involvement in their activities. The Brethren ran Glenhaven Children’s Home in Ulverstone and Hillcrest Children’s Home in Hobart. By the end of the 1870s the Christian Brethren were well established in most…
St Michael’s Priory, in Rokeby, became an approved children’s home in 1974. It accommodated children temporarily as part of a wider counselling and welfare service to the community of Rokeby. The Priory closed in 1977. The monastic community that became St Michael’s Priory began in a large house in Seymour Street, New Town, in about…
Uniting Care Tasmania, which formed in 2008, is an agency of the Victorian and Tasmanian Synod of the Uniting Church. It provides services to families and communities as well as acting as an advocate for social justice. In 2013, the Hobart Benevolent Society, which assists people in poverty, and Cerebral Palsy Tasmania are a part…
Foster Homes – Proposed Establishment in the Northern Territory is an archival file containing correspondence between the Director of the Welfare Branch of the Northern Territory Administration and the Director of the Tasmanian Social Welfare Department. It contains information about receiving homes in Tasmania. Access Conditions Most government records are open for research 30 years…
Hagley State School, which was half a mile from the centre of Hagley in northern Tasmania, opened in 1855. In 1936, it was the site of Hagley Area School, which, shortly after that became Hagley Farm School. Sir Richard Dry, a Premier of Tasmania who owned the nearby Quamby Estate, donated the land for the…
The Education Act 1932 repealed all former Education Acts. It provided for a secular and compulsory education for children between the ages of 7 and 14. ‘Blind’, ‘deaf’, and ‘mute’ children had to attend school in an institution if their parents could not provide an alternative education. In effect this meant that the children would…
The Education Act 1905 provided for the establishment of kindergartens and the compulsory education of ‘blind, deaf and mute children’ between the ages of 7 and 16. If their parents could not provide an education, the children had to go to an institution. Many children went to the Blind, Deaf and Dumb Institution under the…
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