Care Leavers Who Have Passed Away

This section of CLAN’s memorial is dedicated to those Care Leavers who have since passed away. 

If you would like to give us the name of anyone to add to the list then please send the details to  support@clan.org.au or call us on 1800 008 774.

VIC | NSW | QLD | WA | SA | TAS

VICTORIA

  • Jan Barnacle – Royal Park Depot, Good Shepherd, VIC
  • Ted Bastow – Burwood Boys’ Home, VIC
  • Gordon Briggs – Melbourne Orphanage, VIC
  • Keith Broadbent – Box Hill, Turana & Bayswater, VIC
  • Christine Bruce (Vella) – St Catherine’s Geelong, VIC
  • Margaret Burke – Royal Park & Good Shepherd Abbotsford, VIC
  • Bernadette Carruthers – St Catherine’s Geelong, VIC
  • Ken Carter – Turana & Salvation Army Box Hill, VIC
  • Margaret Chennall – Royal Park, Ballarat, St Lukes, Bendigo, Allambie, Winlaton, & Pirra, VIC
  • Ken Craig – Tally Ho & Burwood, VIC
  • Mavis Crawford – Ballarat Orphanage, VIC
  • Charles Dalla-Fiore – St Anthony’s Kew 1952, St Joseph’s Surry Hills 1953-1956 & St Vincent’s South Melb 1956-1964, VIC
  • Brian Fry – St Augustine’s, VIC
  • Cedric Gadenne – Menzies Boys’ Home & Frankston, VIC
  • Bob Golding – Ballarat Orphanage, VIC
  • Vivenne Gordon – St Catherine’s, St Anthony’s, Winlaton & Swinbourne Lodge, VIC
  • Camille Groves – Royal Park & Winlaton, VIC
  • Walter Hamilton – St Augustine’s, VIC
  • Wayne Harriden – Turana, Tally-Ho, Burwood Boys’ Home & Kilmany Park, VIC
  • Evelyn Frances Howarth – St Catherine’s Geelong, VIC
  • Peter Hugget – Methodist Babies’ Home South Yarra, St John’s & St James Canterbury (called St Martin’s Homes for Boys), VIC
  • Irene Kalves – Good Shepherd & Winlaton, VIC
  • Kevin Kane – Beaconsfield Babies Home & Kildonan Burwood, VIC
  • Yvonne Kemfert – Ballarat Orphanage, VIC
  • Anne Kendall – St Catherine’s Geelong, VIC
  • Jimmy Lapworth – Royal Park, Kilmany Park & Tally Ho, VIC
  • Michael Little – St Aiden’s Orphanage Bendigo & St Vincent de Paul’s, VIC
  • Francis (Frank) McCaw – Salvos Box Hill Boys’ Home, VIC
  • Graeme McLeod – Kildonan Burwood, Kilmany Park & Sale, VIC
  • Valda Newman-Hogan – Marillac House, Winlaton & Abbotsford Convent, VIC
  • Sylvia Price – Kildonan, Royal Park & Foster Care, VIC
  • Ken Padey – Victorian State Ward, St Vincent’s de Paul South Melbourne & Foster Care, VIC
  • Ray Prosser – Royal Park & Box Hill Boys’ Home, VIC
  • Allen Radcliffe – Ballarat Orphanage, VIC
  • Violet Richardson – Victorian State Ward, VIC
  • Olivia Sadler – Darling Babies’ Home, VIC
  • Wayne Scott – Allambie, St Cuthbert’s Boys’ Home, Salvation Army Boys’ Home Bayswater, VIC
  • Anthony Sheedy – Royal Park Depot, St Joseph’s Home – Carlton, St Anthony’s – Kew, St Joseph’s Babies’ Home – Broadmeadow, St Joseph’s Boy Home – Surry Hills, St Augustine’s Boys’ Home, Turana & Bendigo Training Centre, VIC
  • Pat Sheedy – 1/12/2001, St Catherine’s, VIC Aged 57
  • Margaret Shields – Geelong Western District Protestant Orphanage & Glastonbury, VIC
  • Jeffrey Smyth – Bayswater Boys’ Home, VIC
  • Maria Lorraine Stevens – Winlaton, VIC
  • Adrian Thatcher – Melbourne Orphanage, Brighton, VIC
  • Nada Vedo – Winlaton, VIC
  • Anthony Wade – Tally Ho, Burwood, VIC
  • George Walsh – Victorian State Ward, VIC
  • William Ward – St Joseph’s Home Ballarat, VIC
  • Anthony John Wilkes – Kilmany Park Boys’ Home VIC and Fairbridge Farm School NSW
  • Barry Wilson – St Augustine’s Boys’ Home, VIC
  • Clarrie Youens – Salvation Army Box Hill, VIC

NEW SOUTH WALES

  • Carol Adams – Bidura, Lynwood Hall, PGTS (Parramatta Girls’ Training School), Glebe Girls’ Shelter, NSW
  • Mavis Appleyard – Fairbridge & Molong, NSW
  • Gwen Armstrong – UPA Rathgar Grafton, NSW
  • Les Arndell – Les was 100 at the time of passing & oldest CLAN member – St Joseph’s Cowper, NSW
  • Elizabeth Arthur – Burnside, NSW 1933
  • Ron Arthur – Royleston, Yarra Bay & Foster Care, NSW
  • Deonne (Leonie) Arthurell – Parramatta Girls’ Home 1962, NSW
  • Arthur Barratt – Gill Memorial Goulburn, NSW
  • Anthony (Tony) Bowes – St Joseph’s Cowper, St Vincent’s Westmead, NSW
  • Mary Bradley – Mater Dei Narellan at 14 years, Magdalene Laundry Tempe, NSW
  • Reg Brown – Yasmar, NSW
  • Maryanne Brownley – St Patrick’s Armidale & Foster Care, NSW
  • Cynthia Bultitude – North Coast Children’s Home Lismore & Parramatta Girls’ Home, NSW
  • Nola Choplek (nee Rollinson) – Lynwood Hall, Guilford, Bidura Glebe, St Joseph’s Lane Cove, Monte Pio, Maitland, NSW
  • Charles Clark – Royston, Bidura, Castle Hill, State Ward, NSW
  • Wayne Coulstock – Yasmar, Mittagong, Mt Penang, Dharruk Boys’ Home, NSW
  • Joy Crane Smith – Parramatta Girls’ Home, Hays Institute, NSW
  • Elizabeth De Paul – Parramatta Girls’ Home, Hays Institute, NSW
  • Mark Doherty – Gill Memorial, Goulburn, NSW
  • Carmel Durant – Bidura, Glebe, NSW
  • Don Edwards – Weroona Home, Castle Hill Boys’ Home, Royleston in Glebe & State Ward of NSW
  • Jennifer Feaviri (Brown) – Parramatta Girls’ Home, NSW
  • Ray Flett – NSW State Ward
  • Carolyn Frawley – Baby to 16 years, Bidura, Montrose Burwood, Lynwood Hall, Girls’ Shelter Glebe and different foster parents, NSW
  • Patricia Graham – Bidura Glebe, Lynwood Hall, Guildford, NSW
  • Maureen Green – St Anne’s Liverpool, NSW
  • June Harvey – King Edward Foster Homes, NSW
  • Kenneth Hoggard – Croagh Patrick Orphanage Orange & St Vincent’s Westmead, NSW
  • Leslie Hume – Weroona Home, Castle Hill Boys’ Home, Royleston in Glebe and State Ward, NSW
  • Sandra Hunt – Bidura (1958-59), Lynwood Hall (1961-62), Parramatta Girls’ Home (1962-63), NSW
  • Barry Jacka – Dill Mackie Home, NSW
  • Thomas Jenkins – Broughton 13/3/50, Royleston 16/3/50, 1/4/57, Castle Hill 10/5/57, MBS 11/2/60, Mt Penang 28/3/60, Charlton 25/5/61, NSW
  • Paul Knight – St Christopher’s Taree, NSW
  • Emily Kopacka – Ormond, Parramatta Girls’ Home & Hay, NSW
  • Stephen James Lang – Dunmore Boys’ Home & Pendle Hill 1957-1963, NSW
  • Dianne Loveless – Burnside & Parramatta Girls’ Home, NSW
  • Carol McDonald – Bidura, Lynwood Hall & Metropolitan Girls’ Shelter, NSW
  • Maureen McKernan – Parramatta Girls’ Home, NSW
  • Mary Mclean – Lynwood Hall Guildford, NSW
  • Vi McVeigh – Lynwood Hall, Guildford, NSW
  • Carol Meehan
  • Geoffrey Meyers – Bidura & Royelston, NSW
  • Frances Muller – St Joseph’s Orphanage Gore Hill, NSW
  • Mary Veronica Nagel – Dalwood Children’s Home, NSW
  • Dennis Noonan – St Anthony‘s, NSW
  • Elizabeth Norris – Lynwood Hall Guildford, NSW
  • William Joseph O‘Meally – Mt Penang Training School for Boys Gosford, The Farm Home for Boys Narara, Riverina Welfare Farm for Boys Yanco, St Vincent’s Westmead, NSW
  • Garry O’Neil – St Vincent’s Boys’ Home’ Westmead, NSW
  • Annie May Polldore – Parramatta Girls’ Home, NSW
  • Natalie Powell – Our Children’s Home Ashfield, NSW
  • Christine Riley (Green) – Parramatta Girls’ Home & Hay Institution for Girls, NSW
  • Richard Scott – North Coast Children’s Home Lismore, NSW
  • Dominic Scutella – St Joseph’s Orphanage Croydon (1975), NSW
  • James Smith – Carlingford Boys’ Home, NSW
  • Glenn Sparkes – Minda, Yasmar & Anglewood, NSW
  • Moira Stirton – Mater Dei Orphanage Narellan, NSW
  • Dianne Summers – St John’s Orphanage Thurgoona, NSW
  • Anne Summers – St Michael’s Girls’ Home Bathurst, NSW
  • Arthur Trott – Boys’ Town Engadine, NSW
  • Julie Walker – St Joseph’s Girls’ Orphanage Goulburn, NSW
  • Ron West – Royleston & Charlton Boys’ Home, NSW
  • Eric Wheeler – Royleston, Mittagong & Weeroona, NSW
  • Jay Wilkins – Havilah, Burnside & Mittagong Boys, NSW
  • Denise Willemse – Parramatta Girls’ Home, NSW
  • Neville Williams – Church of England Boys’ Carlingford & Trigg Cottage, NSW
  • Dianne Witchard – Mater Dei Orphanage Narellan, NSW

QUEENSLAND

  • Bruce Campbell – Indooroopilly Boys’ Home, QLD
  • Neville Clewley – St Vincent’s Nudgee, QLD
  • Des Donley – Foster Homes, Salvation Army Homes, QLD
  • Christine Eustace – Bidura Glebe, Lynwood Hall Guilford, QLD
  • Daphne Falconer – Neerkol Orphanage, QLD
  • Vera Fooks – was our oldest member at 98yrs — St Vincent’s Orphanage Nudgee, QLD
  • Bryan Hartas – Neerkol Rockhampton & Westbrook Toowoomba, Qld
  • Frank Holden Snr. – Westbrook, QLD
  • Bob Meikle – Riverview Boys’ Home, QLD
  • Cliff Muir – Riverview Boys’ Home, QLD
  • John Munt – Wooloowin, Alkira Salvation Army Home Indooroopilly and Riverview Training Farm for Boys Westbrook Toowoomba, QLD
  • David Owen – St Josephs’s Neerkol, QLD
  • June Papacek – St Vincent’s Nudgee Orphanage, QLD
  • Alva Sawyer – Marsden Home, QLD

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

  • Ron Allis – Clontarf, Bindoon WA
  • Edward (Ted) Apps – Castledare, Clontarf, Bridgewater, Mt. Lawley, Longmore, Hillston, WA
  • Elizabeth Clinch – Catherine McAuley Centre, WA
  • Peter Hills – Castledare & Clontarf run by Christian Bros., WA
  • Helena Maiolo – Goodwood Orphanage SA 1959-1966, Bridgewater Ass Centre 1969 & Hollywood Children’s Village Nedlands 69-74, WA
  • George Parton – Barnardos UK, Kingsley Fairbridge Farm School Pinjarra, WA
  • Barry Pinnell – Castledare & Clontarf, WA
  • Anne Walsh – St Joseph’s Girls’ Orphanage Subiaco, WA
  • Alan Whelton – Clontarf, WA

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

  • Shirley Hinton – St Mary’s Adelaide, Farr house, SA
  • Kris King – Foster Care System, SA
  • Helena Maiolo – Goodwood Orphanage, SA 1959-1966, Bridgewater Ass Centre WA 1969, Hollywood Children’s Village Nedlands 69-74, WA
  • John Simmons – State Ward & Glandore Boys’ Home, SA

TASMANIA

  • Quenten Brooks – Hobart, Wybra Hall, Mangalore Boys’ Home, Foster Care, TAS
  • Patsy Brown – Mt St Canice Tas 1957-1959, Abused & sent to peoples’ Homes, a Nuns home in Syd, Detention Centre Syd 1958 by Welfare & Policewomen
  • Ronald John Harris – TAS
  • Barbara Joan Pettit – St Joseph’s Hobart, TAS
  • Victoria Stuart – Salvation Army Maylands, TAS
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