Abermere Family Group Home, run by the government, replaced Abermere Receiving Home in about 1981. It was in Mount Stuart. The Home provided temporary accommodation to children who were wards of state or supervised in other ways by the Social Welfare Department and its successors. Abermere closed around 2000. The Home provided accommodation for new…
The Hospital for the Insane replaced the Lunatic Asylum in 1859. It remained on the same site. In 1937, the Mental Diseases Hospital replaced it. The Gentleman’s Cottage, which in 1941, became an institution for men and boys with intellectual disabilities, was built in 1859. The Ladies Cottage, which later became ‘J’ Ward, opened in…
The Lunatic Asylum, New Norfolk began in 1827 as the Invalid Barracks for convicts. A good proportion of the invalids were classified as ‘lunatics’ and as the hospital became more crowded, it increasingly specialised in ‘caring’ for people with this diagnosis. Over time it catered for all kinds of people, rather than just convicts. The…
Glenara Training Services superseded Glenara Children’s Homes in 1984. It resulted from an agreement between the Board of Glenara and the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations to set up a Work Preparation Program for young people. Glenara Training Services closed in the mid 1990s.The Board sold the property to Southern Cross Care (Tasmania) in…
The Northern Tasmanian Home for Boys Collection, which is held by the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, contains a wide range of records including annual reports, correspondence concerning children, Superintendents’ reports and diaries, lists of children at the Home, reports about boys who had left the home, applications from families to take children for…
The Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery opened in 1891. In 2014, it is owned and run by the Launceston City Council. It has a wide range of collections related to Tasmania’s natural, historical, and cultural heritage. The Community History Branch, located at Inveresk, includes documents, photographs, and ephemera that concern northern Tasmania, including the…
CatholicCare’s archival collection dates between 1959 to 1979, with much of it relating to St Joseph’s Child Care Centre. Among other items, it includes minutes of meetings with cottage parents and progress reports of the children written by houseparents. The records mention a number of children’s names and a few include school reports and examples…
Willowbend Family Group Home, run by the government, opened in about 1990. It was in Kingston. The Home closed around 2005.
Mosley Receiving Home, run by the government, opened in New Town in 1974. It provided temporary accommodation to children who were wards of state or supervised in other ways by the Social Welfare Department. In about 1980, the Home became Mosley Family Group Home. A married woman, known as a Receiving Home Keeper, managed Mosley…
The Hobart Receiving Home, run by the government, opened in 1898. It provided accommodation for wards of the state until a more permanent foster home could be found for them. The Home closed in 1958. The Hobart Receiving Home was in a stone building at 77 Argyle Street on the intersection with Melville Street. It…
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