A collection of links related to Australian history.  Some include online databases for things such as early school, homes and hospital records.

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• Western Australia
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• Tasmania
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Queensland

• Brisbane Hospital Admissions 1872-1887
• Brisbane Hospital registers of deaths 1899-1913
• Brisbane Hospital Registers Deaths 1933-1963
• Brisbane Gaol Hospital Admission registers 1889-1911
• Cases & treatment Moreton Bay Hospital 1830-1862
• Consumptive patients index 1897-1902
• Dental Board 1900-1932
• Dentists 1903-1932
• Dunwich Benevolent Asylum records
• Mackay Hospital admissions 1891 to 1908
• Lazaret patient registers The registers for 1892 to 1940 are admission, medical, discharge and death registers of sufferers of Hansen's disease (also known as leprosy) at Stradbroke Island (Dunwich), Friday Island, Peel Island and Fantome Island Lazarets
• Mackay Hospital Hospital Admissions 1891-1908
• Nurses examinations 1912-1925
• Orphanage Admissions 1865-1909 This is an index to the records of admission of children to the following orphanages: St Vincent's Home, Nudgee; Diamantina Orphanage and the Diamantina Receiving Depot; Rockhampton Orphanage, later Rockhampton Receiving Depot; and Meteor Park Orphanage, Neerkol near Rockhampton
• Pharmacy Apprentices 1861-1964
• Toowoomba Girls Reformatory Admissions and Discharges 1882-1903
• Townsville Orphanage 1879-1918  This index lists names in admission registers to the Townsville Orphanage and Townsville Receiving Depot, which provided care and education for orphan and neglected children.
• Pneumonic influenza patients, Wallangarra Quarantine Compound

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• International Adoptive Families of Queensland Inc. - non-profit support group for Queensland families involved in overseas adoptions

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New South Wales

• Child Care and Protection Index - 1817 to 1942 This index combines: Mittagong Farm home for Boys (1907-1921); Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children (1852-1915); Orphan schools records (1817-1886) and Industrial schools records (1867-1942).
• Dependent children registers 1883-1923  These records relate to children who were admitted to State care between 1883 and 1923. They record where the dependent children were placed (whether with foster parents or guardians). Some of the children were eventually adopted.
• Maintenance registers - Metropolitan Children's Court 1915-1917  The role of the Court was to hear and determine cases of offences committed by or against children.
• Wages paid to orphans Between 1848 and 1850, around 4,100 young Irish women who came to Australia as part of Earl Grey’s Famine Orphan Scheme. Recruited from workhouses in Ireland, the women became an integral part of the workforce in their adopted country.
• Infirm / Destitute (Government) Asylums Indexes - 1880 to 1896
• Nurses index 1926-1954
• Sydney Benevolent Asylum admissions and discharges 1857-1900
• Bubonic Plague Index

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Victoria

• Ward of the State and Care Leaver Records Adoption records are closed to public access for a period of 99 years from their creation to protect privacy
• Hospital patient records Hospitals kept various records about the patients in their care, from simple lists of who was a patient to detailed medical notes about treatment. These archived records are mostly from hospitals that have now closed except for the Royal Women’s Hospital which is still operating.
• Mental health records (1849-1912) Incudes the following Asylums: Yarra Bend, Collingwood, Ararat, Beechworth, Cremorne, Kew, Ballarat, Sunbury
• Register of Vaccinations, Registrar General (1857 – 1932)
• Beechworth Asylum
• Yarra Bend (Asylum 1848-1905; Hospital for the Insane 1905-1925)
• Royal Park Hospital Royal Park Psychiatric Hospital (Royal Park Receiving House 1907-1962; Royal Park Hospital for the Insane 1909-1934; Royal Park Mental Hospital 1934-1954)
• Kew Asylum (Asylum 1871-1905; Hospital for the Insane 1905-1934; Mental Hospital 1934-c.1970's; Mental/Psychiatric Hospital c.1970's-1988)
• Ballarat Asylum (Asylum 1877-1879; 1893-1905; Hospital for the Insane 1905-1934; Mental Hospital 1934-1969; Lakeside Hospital 1969-1996)
• Ararat Asylum Ararat (Asylum 1867-1905; Hospital for the Insane 1905-1934; Mental Hospital 1934-1993; Training Centre 1966-1993; Ararat Forensic Psychiatry Centre 1991-1997; Training Centre and Mental Hospital known as non-statutory name of Aradale)
• Sunbury Asylums Sunbury (Asylum 1879-1905; Hospital for the Insane 1905-1934; Mental Hospital 1934-1962; Mental Hospital/Training Centre 1962-1985; Caloola Training Centre 1985-1992)
• St Helens/Pleasant View St Helens/Pleasant View (St Helens Licensed House 1916-1928; Pleasant View Licensed House 1928-1953; Pleasant View Receiving House 1953-1962; Pleasant View Psychiatric Hospital 1962-1973; Plesant View Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centre 1973-1995)
• Sunnyside Licensed House
• Alphabetical Lists of Patients in Asylums, 1849-1885
• Bendigo Receiving Ward
• Collingwood Asylum
• Ward Register (known as Children's Registers 1864 - 1887)

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Western Australia

• PHIND Personal History Index - former child migrants to catholic homes in Australia 1938 - 1965. Restricted access, contact for details

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South Australia

• The Manning Index of South Australian HistoryThe Index contains many thousands of references to South Australian newspaper and magazine stories for the years 1837 to 1937. It also includes extensive selected text from the indexed publications, other primary and secondary sources and numerous extracts from Mr Manning's own writings.

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Tasmania

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Northern Territory

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National

• Supporting Old Boys and Girls - Barnardos Australia - Index for former child migrants to Catholic homes in Australia 1938 - 1965 (restricted access, contact for details)
• PHIND Personal History Index - former child migrants to catholic homes in Australia 1938 - 1965. Restricted access, contact for details
• Find and Connect - History and information about Australian Orphanages, children's homes and other institutions
• Anglican Records & Archives Centre - Indexes and information 

[Last update August 2024]