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Series number: |
783 |
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Title: |
Applications for children out of the Orphan Schools |
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Start date: |
22 Mar 1825 |
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End date: |
29 Nov 1833 |
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Contents start date: |
22 Mar 1825 |
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Contents end date: |
29 Nov 1833 |
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Descriptive note: |
The series was created to ensure that the children were not removed from the Schools except in accordance with their constitutions. In particular the Rules and Regulations required that the children once admitted remained at the school or in apprenticeship until they reached the age of 18 years (females) or 21 years (males). (1) The Rules also provided that girls could be released to apprenticeships ‘as servants or otherwise’ at the age of 13 and at the age of 15 boys could be apprentices as ‘mechanics or Servants to Settlers’. (2)
This series consists of the applications for children out of the orphan schools and most of the extant records were created during the period that the schools were administered by the Trustees of the Clergy and School Lands Corporation. It is likely that the series spanned the entire period of operation of the orphan schools and that some of the series has not survived.
These volumes comprise letters, memorials and petitions addressed to the Orphan School committee by prospective employers wanting apprentices, and by parents or guardians requesting that children be returned to their custody.
The petitions are in manuscript, and 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 from the Lands Department 12 December 1919 and 16 December 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
Endnotes:
(1) Rules and Regulations Established for the future Management and Improvement of the Female Orphan Institution … 30 June 1818. Clause 11 [CGS792]; and Rules and Regulations established for the Management of the Male Orphan Institution commencing from its establishment on the First of January 1819 Clause 10 [CGS 794]
(2) Op. Cit. clauses 12 and 11 respectively |
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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 Not Available. |
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Current agency responsible: |
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