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===New South Wales=== | ===New South Wales=== | ||
*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. | *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. | ||
*[ | *'''1817-1833''' - [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1676 New South Wales, Australia, Applications and Admissions to Orphan Schools, 1817-1833] at Ancestry, index, browse, and images, ($). | ||
*[https://www.ancestry.com/search/ | *'''1850-1886''' - [https://www.records.nsw.gov.au/archives/magazine/digitised-protestant-male-orphan-school-register Protestant (Male) Orphan School Register, 1850-1886] | ||
*'''1852-1915''' - [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1841 New South Wales, Australia, Registers for the Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children, 1852 - 1915], index, browse, and images, ($). | |||
*'''1867-1911''' - [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1849 New South Wales, Australia, Entrance Books for the Vernon and the Sobraon, 1867-1911], index, browse, and images, ($). | |||
===Queensland=== | |||
*'''1865-1909''' - [https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/orphanage-admissions-1865-1909/resource/9e487fff-60ed-47ab-bbb5-555b87330c3f Orphanage Admission Registers 1865-1909], index. | |||
===South Australia=== | |||
*'''1849-1869''' - [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/250520?availability=Family%20History%20Library Records of orphans and the destitute, Adelaide, South Australia, 1849-1869] at FamilySearch, images. | |||
*'''1855-1861''' - [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/3009178?availability=Family%20History%20Library 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. Also at [https://archives.sa.gov.au/sites/default/files/public/images/GRS%203822-1.pdf State Archives .pdf] | |||
*'''1862-1908''' - [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2649139?availability=Family%20History%20Library Australia, South Australia, Ledgers of children boarded out, 1862-1908] at FamilySearch, images. | |||
*'''1867-1869''' - [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/3009176?availability=Family%20History%20Library Australia, South Australia, Adelaide, List of children forwarded from the Destitute Asylum to the Roman Catholic Orphanage, 1867-1869] at FamilySearch, images. | |||
*'''1872-1892''' - [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/3009162?availability=Family%20History%20Library 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''' - [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/3009173?availability=Family%20History%20Library Australia, South Australia, Inspectress of licensed foster mothers and wetnurses, 1881-1909] at FamilySearch, images. | |||
===Tasmania=== | |||
*'''1828-1897''' - [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/427425?availability=Family%20History%20Library Admission registers, etc., 1828-1897, Queen's Orphan School (Hobart, Tasmania)] at FamilySearch, images. | |||
*'''1828-1879''' - [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/245035?availability=Family%20History%20Library Applications for admission to the Queen's Orphan School 1828-1879] at FamilySearch, images. | |||
*'''1860-1879''' - [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/245027?availability=Family%20History%20Library Alphabetical register of children apprenticed of Queens Asylum 1860-1879] at FamilySearch, images. | |||
*'''1860-1879''' - [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/245031?availability=Family%20History%20Library Alphabetical register of masters of children apprenticed of Queens Asylum 1860-1879] at FamilySearch, images. | |||
*'''1869-1898''' - [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/427465?availability=Family%20History%20Library Admission registers for various institutions, 1869-1898] at FamilySearch, images. | |||
===Victoria=== | ===Victoria=== | ||
*[https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/ | *[https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61566/ Victoria, Australia, Asylum Records, 1853-1940] | ||
*[https://prov.vic.gov.au/explore-collection/explore-topic/adoption-ward-state-and-care-leaver-records/ward-state-and-care Ward of the State and Care Leaver Records] PRO Victoria, index and images. | |||
*'''1850-1893''' - [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1977/ Victoria, Australia, Index to the Children's Registers of State Wards, 1850 -1893] at Ancestry, images indexed. | |||
*'''1864-1879''' - [https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/RG4527-P0002 Children’s ward registers (1864–1879)] PRO Victoria, index and images. | |||
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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> | ||