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South Australia Destitution

Online Resources

• Destitution in South Australia at State Records of South Australia.
  

Online indexes:

Sick and destitute emigrants, 1840 (GRG24/1)

Register of cases of destitution - Destitute Board, c.1846-1857 (GRG 28/4)

Orphaned and deserted children taken out of the Destitute Asylum, 1855-1861 (GRS 3822)

Admissions to the Destitute Lying-in Home, Flinders Street, 1865-1868 (GRG 28/34)

Admissions to Destitute Asylum, 1870-1924 (GRG 28/5)

Applications and licences issues to keep lying-in homes, 1900-1910 (GRG 27/14)

Register of burials (destitute persons) - West Terrace Cemetery, 1903-1912 (GRS 18140)

• 1839-1940 Hospital, Asylum and Lying-in Home Admissions in Genealogy SA Online Database, .pdf on Contents
• 1849-1869 Records of orphans and the destitute, Adelaide, South Australia, 1849-1869 at FamilySearch, images.
• 1849-1913 South Australia, Australia, Destitute Asylum Ledgers and Admissions to Industrial and Reformatory Schools, 1849-1913 at Ancestry - index & images ($).
• 1855-1860 South Australia Destitute Women 1855-1860 at Findmypast - index ($)
• 1855-1861 Australia, South Australia, nominal list of orphaned and deserted children taken out of the Destitute Asylum, 1855-1861, Destitute Poor Department; South Australia at FamilySearch, images.
• 1865-1868 Australia, South Australia, Adelaide, Register of admissions to the Destitute Lying-in-Home, Flinders Street, 1865-1868 at FamilySearch, images.
• 1867-1869 Australia, South Australia, Adelaide, List of children forwarded from the Destitute Asylum to the Roman Catholic Orphanage, 1867-1869 at FamilySearch, images.
• 1872-1892 Australia, South Australia, Account book of money received and deposited on behalf of indentured children, 1872-1892, Destitute Board; South Australia at FamilySearch, images.
• 1881-1909 Australia, South Australia, Register of admissions, lying-in-home for expectant mothers, and infants born in destitute asylum, 1881-1909. Destitute Board at FamilySearch, images.

Archives

South Australia State Records
Research Centre
115 Cavan Road
Gepps Cross
South Australia 5094

Postal Address
GPO Box 464
Adelaide 5001

Ph: 08 7322 7077
Email: Staterecords@sa.gov.au

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