Deaconess House Hostel history in brief
The "Deaconess House", Catherine Payne Memorial Centre, was owned by the Church of England and used as a hostel for wards from children’s homes who were leaving school and entering employment.
There is no record of how many girls were placed.
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Source
Guide to out-of-home care services 1940–2000: volume two – database, compiled by James Jenkinson Consulting, North Melbourne, November 2001.
List of records held by the department
For information relating to the central management of care leavers and wards of state, please consult the guide to Central department wardship and out-of-home care records. These collections date back to the 1860s and include ward registers, index cards and ward files.
Voluntary children's homes files (c.1930–c.1985)
File ; Permanent VPRS Number 18069 / P0002
Content: The files record interaction between the various voluntary homes and the government. This filing system was created in 1975 combining earlier correspondence and other records to create one system of files with VH prefixes.
The specific file relating to Deaconess House dates from the year 1962 and includes:
- hostel placement for employed girls approved, 1962
- wages subsidies, 1962
Reviewed 10 August 2016