Library: Tasmania

ID Code Title Author Description Home(s)
13532 TAS1 Abermere Receiving Home, Abermere
13533 TAS2 Ashley Home for Boys, Deloraine
13534 TAS3 TAS3
13535 TAS4 Diocesan, Clarendon, Rolands Children’s Homes Annual Reports & accounts for the years 1959-1962 - Annual Reports for the years 1959, 1960, 1961 & 1962. Diocesan Children's Home, Clarendon Children's Home, Rolands Boys' Home, The Home of Mercy and Babies' Home
13536 TAS5 Clarendon Children’s Home, Kingston
13537 TAS6 Diocesan, Clarendon, Rolands Children’s Homes Annual Reports & accounts from the years 1950-1953 & 1955 Annual Reports for the years 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953 & 1955. Diocesan Children's Home, Clarendon Children's Home, Rolands Boys' Home, The Home of Mercy and Babies' Home
13538 TAS7 Diocesan, Clarendon, Rolands Children’s Homes Annual reports & accounts for the years 1954-1959 Annual Reports & accounts for the years 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958 & 1959. Diocesan Children's Home, Clarendon Children's Home, Rolands Boys' Home, The Home of Mercy and Babies' Home
13539 TAS8 Garthfield
13540 TAS9 Glenara Children’s Home (Formerly Northern Tasmanian Home for Boys) Annual Reports & Accounts from 1973-1976 Annual Reports for the years 1973, 1974, 1975 & 1976. Includes newspaper clippings on Glenara. Glenara Children's Home (Formerly Northern Tasmanian Home for Boys)
13541 TAS10 Glenara Children’s (Formerly Northern Tas Home for Boys)A/R 1973-1976
13542 TAS11 Glenara Children’s Home (formerly Northern Tasmanian Home for Boys) Annual Reports & Accounts from 1977-1981 - Annual Reports for the years 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980 & 1981. Glenara Children's Home (Formerly Northern Tasmanian Home for Boys)
13543 TAS12 History of King’s Orphan School, Tasmania Wendy Rimon Includes a history of the school, photocopies of images and a list of some of the children admitted to the school from 1835. King's Orphan School
13544 TAS13 Infants at Queen’s Orphanage Hobart 1851- 1863 Kim Pearce & Joyce Purtscher, 1993 A short introduction, then a list of the children admitted and discharged from the Infants School 1851-1863. King's/Queen's Orphan School
13545 TAS14 King’s Orphan School, Tasmania (History)
13546 TAS15 Kanangra Receiving Home
13547 TAS16 Kennerley Boys’ Home, Hobart
13548 TAS17 Launceston Girls’ Home, Launceston TBD A photocopy of a magazine/booklet on the Launceston Girls' Home and newspaper clippings. Launceston Girls' Home
13549 TAS18 Maimbury Receiving Home
13550 TAS19 Mayland’s Girls’ Home
13551 TAS20 Miroma
13552 TAS21 Mosseley Group Home
13553 TAS22 Mount St. Canice, Sandy Bay, Hobart, Tasmania TBD Newspaper clippings, a social history of the home and details on the Mt St Canice complex. Mount St. Canice run by the Good Shepherd nuns
13554 TAS23 Northern Tasmanian Home for Boys – Annual Reports & Accounts 1948-1954 Annual Reports for the years 1948, 1949, 1950,1951, 1952, 1953 & 1954. Northern Tasmanian Home for Boys
13555 TAS24 Northern Tasmanian Home for Boys – Annual Reports & Accounts 1955-1959 Annual Reports for the years 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958 & 1959. Northern Tasmanian Home for Boys
13556 TAS25 Northern Tasmanian Home for Boys – Annual Reports & Accounts 1960-1965 Annual Reports for the years 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964 & 1965. Northern Tasmanian Home for Boys
13557 TAS26 Northern Tasmanian Home for Boys – Annual Reports & Accounts from 1966-1972 Annual Reports from the years 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971 & 1972. Northern Tasmanian Home for Boys
13558 TAS27 Northern Tasmanian Home for Boys (Later Glenara Children’s Home) Records CHS 79 Held by the Queen Victoria Museum & Art gallery, June 2004 Brief introduction and history about the Home followed by the records. Northern Tasmanian Home for Boys
13559 TAS28 Omaru Hostel
13560 TAS29 Rochebank Hostel Joyce Purtscher
13561 TAS30 Ross Female Factory
13562 TAS31 St Joseph’s Orphanage (Aikenhead House), Hobart Tasmania - Photocopies of advertisements in the Mercury in 1963 and a Tasmania's Catholic Newspaper in 1962. St Joseph's Orphanage (Aikenhead House)
13563 TAS32 St. John Bosco Boys Town, Glenorchy
13564 TAS33 Summerhill
13565 TAS34 The Story of Beverley Jean Plummer & Beverley Ann Oates at Mt St Canice Hobart’s Magdelen Laundry TBD A story of escape from the Magdalen Laundry. Mt St Canice, Hobart & Magdalen Laundry
13566 TAS35 Tasmanian Government Gazette February 5, 1941- Child Welfare Regulations 1961 Tasmanian Government The Gazette followed by Tasmania's Statutory rules of 1961.
13567 TAS36 TAS36
13568 TAS37 Clarendon Children’s Home and Roland Boys’ Home Annual Reports Annual Reports for the years 1952, 1959, 1967, 1968, 1976, 1978 & 1979. Clarendon Children's Home & Roland Boys' Home
13569 TAS38 Walch’s Tasmanian Almanac for 1958 – The Red Book - -
13570 TAS39 New Directions for Child Protection in Tasmania: An Integrated Strategic Framework Department of Health and Human Services, January 2008 A Report attempting to better deliver services to at risk and vulnerable children in Tasmania. -
13571 TAS40 New Directions for Child Protection in Tasmania – An Integrated Strategic Framework Department of health and human services
13572 TAS41 Report on the Orphans Schools – Tasmania 1865-1897 Joyce Purtscher
13573 TAS42 Listen to the Children – Review of Claims of Abuse from Adults in State Care as Children Tasmanian Ombudsman, November 2004 Report by the Tasmanian Ombudsman. Includes a definition of State Care used for the Review, definition of child abuse, statistical profile of claimants, overview of claims, summary, conclusions and recommendations. DHHS - Rochebank Hostel, Abermere Hostel, Casablanca, Gilburn, Malmesbury, Laroona, Omaru, Department Institution - Ashley, Wybra Hall, West Winds Boys' Home, Weeroona Girls' Training Centre, Salvation Army - Barrington Boys' Home, Maylands Girls' Home, Catholic Church - Mt St Canice, Boys' Town, St Joseph's Orphanage or Aikenhead House at Hobart, Churches of Christ - Bethany Children's Home, Anglican - Clarendon Children's Home, Community of Board Management - Kennerley Boys/Children's Home, Glenara Children's Home & Glendel Children's Home
13574 TAS43 Review of Claims of Abuse from Adults in State Care as Children – Final Report Phase 2 Tasmanian Ombudsman, June 2006 Includes statistical profile of claimants, placement of claimants, reporting of abuse by claimants, current place of residence, referrals to police and a summary of outcomes sought by claimants. X 6 copies. Receiving Homes, Department Institutions - Ashley Home for Boys, Wybra Hall, West Winds Boys' Home, Weeroona Girls' Training Centre, Approved Children's Homes - Barrington Boys' Home run by the Salvation Army, Maylands Girls' Home, Mt St Canice (Magdelen Home), Boys' Town (Savio College), St Joseph's Orphanage or Aikenhead House at Hobart, Bethany Children's Home, Clarendon Children's Home, Royland Children's Home, Kennerley Boys'/Children's Home, Glenara Children's Home, Glendel Children's Home, Launceston Girls' Home, Hillcrest Children's Home & Tresca
13575 TAS44 Tasmanian Bordered Out (Fostered Children) 1865-1897 Compiled by Joyce Purtscher Includes an introduction, a Government Notice of the Regulations for the boarding-out of destitute and neglected children. Followed by the Tasmanian Boarded Out list of children between 1865-1897. Queen's Orphanage/Asylum
13576 TAS45 Tasmanian Yearbook 1972 R. Lakin Deputy Commonwealth Statician & Government Statistician of Tasmania The book is designed to present a comprehensive statistical and descriptive account of the physical environment, the social, demographic, economic structure of the State with particular emphasis on change and development in recent years. Chapter 11 is titled 'Social Welfare and Health Services'. Wards of the State and Supervised Children are found on pages 416-417. Ashley Home for Boys in Deloraine & Wybra Hall in Mangalore
13577 TAS46 Submission to the State Ombudsman by Lorraine Digney Lorraine Digney A personal account of Lorraine's time in the Magdelen Home also known as the Good Shepherd Convent Laundry or Mount St Canice Laundry and includes photocopies of photographs of Lorraine. The Good Shepherd Laundry Hobart also known as Mt St Canice Laundry & Lachlan Park run by the Good Shepherd nuns
13578 TAS47 Tasmania and Northern Territory – Various Government Acts Regarding Child Welfare Parliament of Tasmania The Children's Charter 1918, Social Services Department Report for the year 1955-1956, Infants' Welfare Act 1935, Child Welfare 1960, Child Protection 1974, Guardianship and Custody of Infants Act 1934 & Child Welfare Ordinance 1958-1960 Northern Territory. -
13579 TAS48 Unnamed Irish Boys on Convict ships 1841-1843 sent to Queen’s Orphanage Hobart Van Diemen’s Land Joyce Purtscher Contains a list of names of the convicts from Ireland, background on the Orphanage and brief descriptions of boys and their fathers from the ship. Queen's Orphanage
13580 TAS49 Miscellaneous Pictures of Tasmanian Orphanages - Photocopies images of Orphanages from 1870-1977. Historical information on the Female Factory in South Hobart and the Boys' Reformatory & Training School. Aldridge Lodge (1870), Orphan School, Hobart (1858) Boys' Home in Landsdowne Cres, West Hobart (1911), Kennerly Boys' Home (1880), Kings Male & Female Orphan School New Town (1831), Church of St John and Orphan School New Town (1859), Point Puer Boys Reformatory (1934-1849), Queen's Orphan Schools New Town (1844), Church & Orphan Schools ,St John's Park (1870), Boys' Reformatory and Training School, Cascades (1869), Diocesan Children's Home Ordinance (1977), Clarendon Children's Homes, Kingston Beach, The Roland Boys' Home, Sheffield
13581 TAS50 Troubled Asylum Ralph W. Gowlland, April 1981 The history of Asylums in Tasmania. Invalid Barracks, Colonial Hospital, Madhouse, Her Majesty's Lunatic Asylum, Mental Diseases Hospital & Lachlan Park
13582 TAS51 A ‘Pink Palace’? Risdon Prison 1960-2004 Caroline Evans, Department of Justice A book on the history of Risdon Prison. Risdon Prison & Royal Derwent Hospital
13583 TAS52 Memories of Ashley Boys Home and other ramblings Chas J Canden, published by Aus I Tech, 2004 Includes memories of the Home, short stories, poems and speeches. Ashley Boys' Home
13584 TAS53 My Magdalen Home Merlene Fawdry, FixWrite Press, 2006 A personal account of life in the Mt St Canice Home. Mt St Canice, Convent of the Good Shepherd Sandy Bay, Hobart
13585 TAS54 Not of My Choice Frederick A. Coppleman, 1994 An autobiography on growing up in the Child Welfare Babies' Home in Tasmania. Child Welfare Babies' Home, Locknar St
13586 TAS55 She lived in Launceston Isobel Horner of Waratah House 1868-1955 Sally Dammery, Regal Publications A story of Isobel Horner as a strong-minded and independent grandmother who constructed a persona from the concealed deprivation of her early life and who lived in one of Launceston's historic mansions. Waratah House
13587 TAS56 Walk in My Shoes From Ashley Boy to Alter Boy Chas J Canden, AusITech, 2001 An autobiography about his years in Ashley. Ashley Boys' Home
13588 TAS57 TAS57
13589 TAS58 Clarendon – A Century of Care Geoffrey Stephens, The Board of Clarendon Home, 1990 A book published to mark the Centenary that focuses on the history of the Clarendon Homes. Clarendon Children's Home
13590 TAS59 TAS59
13591 TAS60 One Man’s Story – Surviving a Childhood of Abuse Robert Daniel Hirst, published by Robert Hirst, June 2008 An autobiography of growing up in care. Kennerley Boys' Home
13592 TAS61 Applications for Queen’s Orphanage Hobart Town 1858 – 1878 Joyce Purtscher A brief history followed by a list of names for applications to enter Queen's Orphanage. Queen's Asylum for Destitute Children/Queen's Orphanage
13593 TAS62 I was a Gypsy once, A silver bell ago Alexandra Myers, Choura's Press, 2014 Poems. -
13594 TAS63 Kennerley Boys’ Home West Hobart History - A brief history of the Home. Kennerley Boys' Home
13595 TAS64 Clarendon Children’s Home Historical Articles - Handwritten background information on the Home, newspaper clippings and images. Clarendon Children's Home
13596 TAS65 Clarendon Children’s Home Hobart, Tasmania - Photocopies of images and a newspaper clipping. Clarendon Children's Home
13597 TAS66 Convict Lives at the George Town Female Factory Edited by Alison Alexander, Convict Women's Press Inc., 2014 This book tells the story of 31 convicts who spent time at George Town Female Factory. George Town Female Factory
13598 TAS67 Convict Lives at the Launceston Female Factory Edited by Lucy Frost and Alice Meredith Hodgson, Convict Women's Press Inc., 2013 A book on the Launceston Female Factory as the first purpose-built institution for convict women in Van Diemen's Land. Launceston Female Factory
13599 TAS68 Repression, Reform & Resistance – A History of the Cascades Female Factory Edited by Alison Alexander, Convict Women's Press, Inc., 2022 A book tells the history of the Cascades Female Factory in Hobart and the intriguing stories of the many women who were sent there. The Cascades Female Factory
13600 TAS69 30 Years of Rotary in Hobart G.V. Brooks, 1955 A historical review of the Rotary organisation in Hobart. Kennerley Boys' Home & Clarendon Home mentioned on page 44 & 81
13601 TAS70 The Last Orphan – When a journey of hope turns into nightmare Rex Wade, Mirror Books, 2019 Rex and his brother Kevin were thought to be the last orphans to be transported to Australia. In this book Rex tells the story of his childhood innocence, unforgiveable abuse at the hands of the people who were meant to care for him and his long journey back to England to seek the truth of what really happened to his mother. Tresca Home, Ashley Home for Boys & Risdon Prison in Tasmania
13602 TAS71 Newspaper clippings regarding Weeroona Girls’ Home The Mercury, The Advocate & The Examiner, 1965-1970s The newspaper clippings discuss allegations of cruel treatment, reports, findings of an inquiry by the Public Service Commissioner, movement of the Principal and allegations to be investigated. Weeroona Girls' Home or Weeroona Training School for Girls at Latrobe
13603 TAS72 Weeroona Girls’ Training Centre (1959-1979) & Listen to the children: review of claims of abuse from adults in state care as children (2003-2006) Find & Connect A history of Weeroona and the Ombudsman Inquiry. Weeroona Girls' Home or Weeroona Training School for Girls at Latrobe
13604 TAS73 Convict Orphans – The heartbreaking stories of the colony’s forgotten children, and those who succeeded against all odds Lucy Frost, Allen & Unwin, 2023 A book on the painstaking truth about convict orphans and the slave labour, abandonment and abuse they suffered. There are disturbing parallels between the Queen's Orphan Schools in Hobart and other children's institutions in Australia in 21st century. The Queen's Asylum for Destitute Children (formerly the Queen's Orphan Schools) Tasmania, Melbourne Orphan Asylum (Victoria), Sydney Female Orphan School (NSW) & Sydney Male Orphan School (NSW), Protestant Orphan School (NSW), Roman Catholic Orphan School Parramatta (NSW)
13605 TAS74 Prison Boys of Port Arthur F.C. Hooper, F.W. Cheshire, 1967 A study of the Point Puer Boys' Establishment, Van Dieman's Land 1834 to 1850. Point Puer Boys' Prison
13606 TAS75 Voices From The Orphan Schools: the Children’s Stories Dianne Snowden, 2018 This book, together with the Friends of the Orphan School database, repopulates the buildings still standing in the St John's precinct with the voices of the children who were admitted. Orphan Schools