Topics: Families and children
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1915 - 1939 - North West - view
APB is entitled to forcibly remove Indigenous children from their families
1915 - 1939 - North West - view
Families are threatened
1918 - North West - view
They remain wards of the state until they are 18
1918 - South West - view
Burragorang families
1918 - North West - view
The home is intended to accommodate boys removed from their families
1920s - North Coastal - view
About
a dozen girls from the Cootamundra Training Home for Aboriginal Girls are
placed in North side homes as domestic servants. They looked after small
children or worked in the kitchens and seldom had any contact with their
families or friends from Cootamunda.
1920 - 1921 - North West - view
boys at the Singleton Childrens Home
1920 - 1921 - North West - view
average attendance of 22 at the school associated with the Home
1920 - North West - view
non Aboriginal families
1922 - South Coastal - view
boys
1922 - South Coastal - view
mothers
1922 - South Coastal - view
sisters
1923 - North West - view
families travel elsewhere while others remain nearby. Many move from St Clair Mission to Walhollow Station
1923 - North West - view
One family moves to the other side of the creek near St Clair
1923 - North West - view
boys between the ages of 5 and 15 are sent directly to Kinchela or if they have been taken at a younger age they are sent to Bomaderry Children’s Home