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Airlie House, Burnside Homes, North Parramatta

Transcript: Mr George Bates remembers a carnival held to raise money for a local orphanage

Airlie House

Dalwood Home

Female Orphan School, Parramatta

Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children

Ashfield Infants Home

Burnside Children's Homes

Female Orphan School

Male Orphan School

Manly Industrial School and Orphanage

Our Babies Home

Our Boys Farm Home

Roman Catholic Orphan School

Salvation Army Boys' Home Dee Why

Salvation Army Home for Little Girls Dee Why

St Anne's Orphanage

St Joseph's Providence

St Martha's Industrial Home for Girls Leichhardt

Collicott, Mary

Dalwood, AE

Dunlea, Thomas

Hosking, Ann Elizabeth

Hosking, John snr

Lang, David

Wilton, Charles Pleydell Neale

Buntha Nhem, left, with two other Cambodian orphans at Burnside children's home in North Parramatta 1983

Children at play, Dalwood Homes Balgowlah 20 July 1941

Children at play, Dalwood Homes Balgowlah 20 July 1941

Children from the Dalwood Home with plaster cow outside the Black and White Milk Bar, Martin Place c1933

Dalwood Home, Seaforth 1930s

Female Orphan School, Paramatta [sic], N.S. Wales c1825

Female Orphan School, Parramatta 1870-1875

Female Orphan School, Parramatta c1820s

The Orphan Asylum, Randwick c1875

The Orphan School, entering Parramatta 1821-23

Mr George Bates, interviewed in 1986, remembers a carnival held to raise money for an orphanage in Liverpool

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Orphanages

Airlie House, Burnside Homes, North Parramatta

Built as part of Sir James Burns's Presbyterian orphanage, Burnside Homes, Airlie House has been used for a range of purposes over the years.

Transcript: Mr George Bates remembers a carnival held to raise money for a local orphanage

Mr George Bates was born in 1912 and spent most of his adult life in Liverpool. He was interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900–1960' project. Here he remembers a carnival held to raise money for a local orphanage.

Airlie House

Brick administrative building in neo-classical style constructed as part of Burnside Children's Homes. It was later used as army offices, an orphanage and currently houses a kindergarten.

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Dalwood Home

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House built by Theodore Gurney and later sold to AE Dalwood who donated it to the Food for Babies Fund. It was later used as a children's home and hospital.

Female Orphan School, Parramatta

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Three storey brick barracks in Parramatta that was built in the 1820s to house orphans after numbers increased beyond the capacity of the orphanage in the city. In use until the 1880s, the building was next psychiatric hospital for over a century before becoming part of the University of Western Sydney.

Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children

Large sandstone asylum for 400 children built on 60 acres at High Cross Randwick by the Society for the Relief of Destitute Children. A new wing built in 1863 housed a further 400 children. During World War I it was used as a military hospital for wounded and disabled returned servicemen.

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Ashfield Infants Home

Home first established on Victoria Street, Darlinghurst to cater for foundlings and to provide accommodation for unmarried mothers and their babies. Two years after it was founded, one of its supporters, Thomas Walker, suggested the home be moved to larger premises, a house called 'Gorton' on Henry Street, Ashfield.

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Burnside Children's Homes

Children's home founded and endowed by Sir James Burns, founder of Burns Philp, that operated until the late 1980s, at North Parramatta.

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Female Orphan School

Orphanage set up in 1801 by Governor King to train destitute girls. Originally established on a site near the corner of Bridge and George streets to house 100 girls, by 1829 there were 152 inmates and the fear of moral corruption from its proximity to Sydney town led to a new facility being constructed at Parramatta.

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Male Orphan School

Orphanage established by Governor Macquarie, where destitute boys were housed and educated until they turned 15.

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Manly Industrial School and Orphanage

School and hostel which from 1881 to 1910 accommodated girls aged two to 18 years and from 1883 to 1891 also housed boys up to the age of ten. In 1886 it received the remaining children from the Roman Catholic Orphanage at Parramatta, which had just closed.

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Our Babies Home

Cottage opened by George Ardill and the Society for Providing Homes for Neglected Children in 1886 to care for orphans or babies of working mothers.

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Our Boys Farm Home

Cottage for boys established at Camden in 1890 by George Ardill and The Society for Providing Homes for Neglected Children to provide care and training for boys on nearby farms. The land was donated by WH Paling. In 1946 the building was sold and is now known as Macquarie House.

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Roman Catholic Orphan School

Orphanage established specifically for catholic children operating from a variety of sites in Sydney Town and at Parramatta. Opening with 13 children at Bellevue Hill there were over 113 residents by the time it moved to Parramatta.

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Salvation Army Boys' Home Dee Why

Home established by the Salvation Army on land donated by Elizabeth Jenkins at Dee Why.

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Salvation Army Home for Little Girls Dee Why

Home for girls built south of Dee Why Lagoon on land donated by Elizabeth Jenkins.

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St Anne's Orphanage

Children's home that was opened at George Street Liverpool in 1888 by the Sisters of Charity. Principally for the care of girls, young boys were occasionally admitted. The Orphanage was relocated to smaller premises at Medley Street Liverpool in 1970 and continued to receive children until the end of 1977.

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St Joseph's Providence

Orphanage in Cumberland St, The Rocks run by the Sisters of St Joseph

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St Martha's Industrial Home for Girls Leichhardt

Training facility for neglected, abandoned or orphaned girls at Leichhardt run by the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.

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Collicott, Mary

The wife of a convict who followed her husband to Sydney with her three children as well as three of her husband's children from a previous marriage, and later became matron of the Female Orphan School.

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Dalwood, AE

Estate agent who donated his home to the Food for Babies Fund, establishing Dalwood Home at Seaforth.

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Dunlea, Thomas

Catholic priest and founder of Boys Town at Engadine who also worked with alcoholics and the mentally ill.

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Hosking, Ann Elizabeth

Matron of the Female Orphan School who encouraged needlework and other commercial skills amongst the girls.

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Hosking, John snr

Teacher in charge at the Orphan School and active member of the Methodist Society and Benevolent Society during his time in Sydney as well as undertaking some commercial activities.

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Lang, David

Orphan who was cared for at Burnside Children's Homes.

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Wilton, Charles Pleydell Neale

Chaplain appointed as master of the Female Orphan school who, in addition to his clerical duties, had a lively concern for the spiritual and intellectual needs of the colonists.

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Buntha Nhem, left, with two other Cambodian orphans at Burnside children's home in North Parramatta 1983

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New South Wales Migration Heritage Centre

[Buntha Nhem Burnside dorm]

(from 'Leaving Cambodia: stories of Sydney's Pol Pot Survivors')

Children at play, Dalwood Homes Balgowlah 20 July 1941

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State Library of New South Wales

Children at play, Dalwood Homes Balgowlah 20 July 1941

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

Children from the Dalwood Home with plaster cow outside the Black and White Milk Bar, Martin Place c1933

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State Library of New South Wales

(Mitchell Library)

Dalwood Home, Seaforth 1930s

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

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(Mitchell Library)

Female Orphan School, Paramatta [sic], N.S. Wales c1825

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National Library of Australia

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Female Orphan School, Parramatta 1870-1875

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American & Australasian Photographic Company

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a5408001 / SPF/2661]

(Mitchell Library)

Female Orphan School, Parramatta c1820s

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National Library of Australia

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The Orphan Asylum, Randwick c1875

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[DL PX 149, 36]

(Dixson Library)

The Orphan School, entering Parramatta 1821-23

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a1080073 / PXC 459, 37]

(Mitchell Library)

Mr George Bates, interviewed in 1986, remembers a carnival held to raise money for an orphanage in Liverpool

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Mr George Bates was born in 1912 and spent most of his adult life in Liverpool. He was interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900-1960 ' project. Here he remembers a carnival held to raise money for a local orphanage.
Transcript

GEORGE Another thing that brings back memories of the orphanage those particular days, we had a very good knowledgeable person who was George Laurantis [?] who had the theatre in Liverpool. And in his goodness he'd always have the orphans of a Saturday afternoon upstairs to look at the pictures and one thing and another. But another scene came up, where he was arranging a big day at the Liverpool Bowling Club and he was raising for the orphanage in Liverpool, and he got, he was very good at organising things George was in those days, George Laurantis got even the top jockeys from Sydney to come up and attend this big carnival for the orphans of Liverpool. Top jockeys came, like Sellwood, and so and so. And he got it all organised at the Liverpool Bowling Club; and it looked like rain. And he was in a dither over it. But anyhow, they got through the carnival for the orphanage in those days and raised six hundred pounds. It was a fantastic set up. And George Laurantis took the money up to the Sister Superior at the orphanage and he says 'Oh Mother!' She says 'What is it Mr Laurantis'? He said 'How lucky we were!' She said 'How do you mean lucky Mr Laurantis?' He said 'If it had been rain we wouldn't have had our carnival at all'. But you had no rain,' said the Mother. 'I know that, I know that, but I got real dithered about it'. She said 'You should have seen me, you shouldn't have got dithered because there'd have been no rain today'. He said 'Why's that Mother'? 'Well' she said, ' I went down to our saint in the grounds', a big statue there in the grounds, of St Theresa, and she said a prayer in front of St Theresa and she said 'Lord, send no rain here for Liverpool today because they're running the big carnival in Liverpool' she says. She was so confident; and she said 'I'd have given you the confidence immediately if you'd only made contact with me.' [1]

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Liverpool City Library

(Detail from interview with George Bates, from the 'Looking back at Liverpool : an oral history of the Liverpool region 1900-1960' conducted in 1986 by Liverpool City Council, editor and project co-ordinator Catherine Johnson ; researchers Angela Imbrosciano, Verica Miiosavijevic, Kathleen Smith.)

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