Brief Guide 5: records relating to child migrants
This is a list of records which contain information about post war child migrants. All case files and indexes listed here have either a 50 or 75 year access restriction. If you require access to the records of the then Department of Social Welfare which fall within the restricted access period, you should apply to: The Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, 34 Davey Street, Hobart Tasmania 7000. For access to the records of the then State Immigration Office or the Fairbridge Society you should contact us.
In summary the records of the State Immigration Office document the nomination and arrival of the child migrant while the records created after their arrival can be found in the case files of the Department of Social Welfare. The relevant series are AA226 and SWD66 and the record cards AD 256 are also useful and would have been needed to track the child migrant file number had the Agency not put the case files in alphabetical order.
| AD247 |
Department of Social Welfare
File guide to correspondence records |
c. 1970 - c.1990 |
| AD203 |
Department of Social Welfare
Correspondence records
See file no. 14 for administrative records relating to child migrants.
|
1919 – 1993 |
| AA60 |
State Immigration Office
Index to personal nominations.
This is an index to people nominated under the various joint agreements on immigration made between the United Kingdom and Australian Governments in 1946. Some subject cards such as Boys Town, Big Brother Movement and Fairbridge Society children can be found in this series. The cards contain details such as occupation, age, address in England, names of family members, departure and arrival dates and name of ship. The name of the nominator is included as are file numbers for the nominator and migrant files
|
1946 – 1981 |
| AA59 |
State Immigration Office
Migrant files
Case files of all nominated migrants
|
1946 – 1981 |
| SWD61 |
Department of Social Welfare
Index to case files of the Child Welfare Division. |
c.1950 - c.1970 |
| SWD66 |
Department of Social Welfare
Case files of the Child Welfare Division
These files are identical to those in AA226 (see below) but were removed from this sequence when a separate Child Welfare Division was created within the Department. Files relating to child migrants are included in this series.
|
c.1944 - 1970 |
| AD256 |
Department of Social Welfare
Record cards of "non - citizen" children including children arriving under the Child Migration Scheme
These cards contain summary information on the welfare of British and Non – British child migrants including name and address of the person with whom they are living.
|
1950 - 1968
1970 - 1978
|
| SWD60 |
Department of Social Welfare
Correspondence concerning children brought to Tasmania under the auspices of the Overseas Children Reception Committee.
These case files relate to children who were brought to Tasmania by the Overseas Children Reception Committee. The children were to remain in Tasmania for the duration of the war, or such lesser period as was deemed necessary in the interests of both parties.
|
1940 - 1945 |
| AD204 |
Department of Social Welfare
Master index to applications and associated correspondence relating to the custody and welfare of children under various acts including child migration |
c.1920 - c.1989 |
| AA226 |
Department of Social Welfare
Applications and associated correspondence relating to the custody and welfare of children under various acts including child migration.
This series is a merger of several sequences of case files into two alphabetical sequences.
|
c.1922 - c.1981 |
| NS1438 |
Fairbridge Drake Society
The Fairbridge Society home for orphaned British migrant children and/or migrant children with one parent living, was established at Exeter, Northern Tasmania in 1957. The home was closed in Nov 1976. In 1991 with the approval of the the President of the Fairbridge Drake Society, London, England the Tasmanian records of the society were deposited in the Archives Office. Access to the records is restricted for 75 years in line with the access determined for the British records of the Society which are housed at the University of Liverpool.
Among the records is a Family register 1958 – 1976 and 13 case files c 1965 - 1976
|
1925 - 1977 |
