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==Online Databases== | |||
There is an [https://sydneybenevolentasylum.com/ online index for records of the Sydney Benevolent Society], who provided poor relief (indoor and outdoor) for men, women, and children, including foundlings. The inmates journals recorded familial information, where the person came from, if known, and why they were seeking relief. Copies of original records can be ordered from the New South Wales State Archives. | |||
See Ancestry for additional asylum and hospital records databases: | |||
[https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61566/ Victoria, Australia, Asylum Records, 1853-1940] | |||
[https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/8812/ New South Wales, Australia, Hospital & Asylum Records, 1840-1913] | |||
[https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1841/ New South Wales, Australia, Registers for the Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children, 1852 - 1915] | |||
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Orphans are persons, especially children, bereaved of both parents.<ref name="MD1">"orphan, noun 1. a." in ''The Macquarie Dictionary Online'' (Macquarie Dictionary Publishers Pty Ltd) accessed 3 August 2013.</ref> The word has an extended usuage to refer to children who are abandoned or neglected.<ref name="OED">"orphan, A. n. 1." in ''Oxford English Dictionary'' (2013, Oxford University Press, online edition) accessed 3 August 2013.</ref> In the 19th Century, this latter class included a group termed "pauper children" who were targeted by British authorities for migration to Australia and other dominions of the British Empire; the practise continued into the 20th Century and Australia received thousands of child migrants sometimes deceived into believing they were orphaned, often under duress.. <br> | Orphans are persons, especially children, bereaved of both parents.<ref name="MD1">"orphan, noun 1. a." in ''The Macquarie Dictionary Online'' (Macquarie Dictionary Publishers Pty Ltd) accessed 3 August 2013.</ref> The word has an extended usuage to refer to children who are abandoned or neglected.<ref name="OED">"orphan, A. n. 1." in ''Oxford English Dictionary'' (2013, Oxford University Press, online edition) accessed 3 August 2013.</ref> In the 19th Century, this latter class included a group termed "pauper children" who were targeted by British authorities for migration to Australia and other dominions of the British Empire; the practise continued into the 20th Century and Australia received thousands of child migrants sometimes deceived into believing they were orphaned, often under duress.. <br> | ||