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Series number: |
796 |
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Title: |
Male Orphan School Admission Books |
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Start date: |
01 Jan 1819 |
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End date: |
30 Apr 1850 |
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Contents start date: |
01 Jan 1819 |
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Contents end date: |
24 Sep 1833 |
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Descriptive note: |
The Rules and Regulations established for the management of the Male Orphan School stipulated amongst the records that the Committee was required to make and maintain were “the Names and Ages of the Orphans now admitted or that may hereafter be admitted into the Institution; adding thereto the Names, Designations, and places of residence of the surviving Parents or Guardians of the Children; and carefully noting down the date of admission, Apprenticeship, Discharge, or Death of each Orphan so admitted” (1) Admission Books evolved to satisfy this part of the recordkeeping responsibilities of the Committee.
Internally the registers are arranged chronologically by date of admission to the Orphan School and contain the information required by the rules. The entries in the registers were arranged into the following columns – [admission] number; age; when admitted; Time of Quitting School; Parents’ name; [parents’] occupation; [parents’] residence; and remarks. Details regarding the destination after leaving the school were entered in the last column. The exact labelling of the columns varies slightly from copy to copy of the Admission Books described hereafter.
The surviving records in this series consist of a possible original register and a number of contemporaneous partial transcriptions. It would seem that the copies were made when the information contained in the registers was required by various government officials.
It would appear that the original register is that in the Mitchell Library, Sydney [ML C200] that covers the period 1819 – 1847.
The two items of this series held by State Records appear to be partial copies of this item covering the period
1819 – 1833 (admission numbers 1 - 379 ); and
1819 – 1828 (admission numbers 1 – 242)
Another copy survives in the Colonial Secretary’s records (also held by State Records). This covers the period 1819 – 1824 (admissions 1 – 117) [State Records Reference: 4/7208]
Custody history:
The series was transferred from the Chief Secretary's Department to the Public Library of New South Wales in 1934. From thence they were transferred to the Archives Authority of New South Wales.
Endnotes
(1) NRS 794 [4/400] p.3 – Rules and Regulations No. 5
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Home location: |
This series is held at the Western Sydney Records Centre |
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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: |
The most complete and possibly the original volume in this series is held at the Mitchell Library, Sydney [Reference ML C200] The two items in this series are reproduced as State Records Microfilm Reel 2777; and the first item is also on State Records microfilm Reel 1477. This series forms part of the Archives Resources Kit which can be used in many locations throughout New South Wales. |
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Electronic Item Lists Not Available |
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