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Series number: |
782 |
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Title: |
Applications for admission into the Orphan Schools |
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Start date: |
15 Feb 1825 |
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End date: |
06 Dec 1833 |
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Contents start date: |
15 Feb 1825 |
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Contents end date: |
06 Dec 1833 |
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Descriptive note: |
This series consists of the applications for admission into the male and female orphan schools approximately during the period that the schools were administered by the Trustees of the Clergy and School Lands Corporation. The applications were required for to determined whether the child proposed for admission met the necessary criteria. The start date of this series coincides with the appointment at the Female Orphan School, of the Rev. William Walker, and at the Male Orphan School, the Rev. Robert Cartwright.
These volumes comprise the petitions of parents (usually widows or widowers) or guardians of destitute or orphaned children addressed to the Committee of the Orphan Schools (sometimes direct, but often through the Clerk to the Corporation, the Archdeacon, or the Colonial Secretary) and begging that the child or children named in the petition be admitted to the said schools.
Some of the petitions were submitted on printed forms; others are entirely in manuscript. The petitions were at some stage bound into volumes, however the binding was removed to enable the petitions to be microfilmed. The petitions are in chronological order.
This series of records was transferred from the Public Library of New South Wales, and previously transferred from the Lands Department 12 December 1919 and 16 September 1937.
The following publication draws heavily upon the record series;
Ramsland, J; Children of the Backlanes, Destitute and neglected children in Colonial New South Wales, New South Wales University Press, Kensington, 1986.
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Home location: |
This series is held at the Western Sydney Records Centre |
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Format: |
Loose Papers |
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Images: |
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Arrangement: |
Chronological |
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Bridging aids: |
An index is available on State Records web site Index to orphan school records. |
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Copies: |
Microfilm copy State Records Reel 2776.
This series forms part of the Archives Resources Kit which can be used in many locations throughout New South Wales. |
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Item control status: |
Electronic item lists are not available |
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Current agency responsible: |
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