St Catherine’s Girls’ Orphanage, Highton, Geelong
Location
Geelong
VIC Australia
Provider
Date Opened
Date Closed
Location
Roslyn Road, Highton
Geelong VIC
Australia
Provider: Sisters of Mercy
Year Opened: 1862
Year Closed: 1975
Other names: Our Lady’s Orphanage
St Catherine’s Orphanage was the new name given in 1912 to what was formerly Our Lady’s Orphanage. It accommodated girls aged between three and 14.
In 1928, the Orphanage moved from Newtown to Highton in Geelong. In 1960, it became the St Catherine’s Children’s Home.
For further information about this Home, please refer to: A Piece of the Story.
Related News Articles
St Catherine’s Orphanage, Geelong – Appeal Enthusiastically Launched, 4 February 1926, Advocate
New Girls’ Orphanage at Geelong – Enterprise of the Sisters of Mercy, 13 October 1927, Advocate
St Catherine’s Orphanage: Inspection by Mr Hogan, 28 April 1928, Argus
A Model Institution for Australia, 15 November 1928, Advocate
Geelong Orphanage Win Cup for Dancing, 22 June 1950, Advocate
Geelong Orphans put on Melbourne Concert, 26 October 1950, Advocate
Irish Dancing Competitions at Heidelberg, 26 April 1951, Advocate
CLAN Homes – Orphanages Gallery
If you have any images and would like to donate them, please contact CLAN.
The Australian Orphanage Museum items:
Letter of admission and discharge register of Valda Raffaile, 1930s-1940s
Tobacco Tin & Lid used by some Priests seen at St. Catherine’s in Geelong, 1950s
St Catherine’s Children’s Home Annual Report 1964
Slate Roof Tile from St Catherine’s
CLAN library books (where this Home is mentioned)
VIC 80
The author writes in a very telling and simple way of the experiences of her early childhood days in the orphanage, her search for her biological parents and her later experiences.