Victoria Orphans and Orphanages

Online Sources

 * Ward of the State and Care Leaver Records PRO Victoria, index and images.
 * 1850-1893 - Victoria, Australia, Index to the Children's Registers of State Wards, 1850 -1893 at Ancestry, images indexed.
 * 1864-1879 - Children’s ward registers (1864–1879) PRO Victoria, index and images.

New South Wales Online Sources Including Victoria Prior to 1851-55

 * 1817-1833 - New South Wales, Australia, Applications and Admissions to Orphan Schools, 1817-1833 at Ancestry, index, browse, and images, ($).
 * 1850-1886 - Protestant (Male) Orphan School Register, 1850-1886
 * 1852-1915 - New South Wales, Australia, Registers for the Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children, 1852 - 1915, index, browse, and images, ($).

New South Wales State Archives and Records Including Victoria Prior to 1850

 * 1850-1886 - Protestant (Male) Orphan School Register, 1850-1886
 * The Protestant (Male) Orphan School Register, 1850-1886 lists over 1,000 boys who were admitted to the school. Boys were usually admitted because one or both parents were dead or unable to care for them. The register is an important document in the history of child care and protection in New South Wales. The register records name, age, date of admission, date of leaving the Institution, parents’ name/s and remarks.

New South Wales Archive Resources Kit Including Victoria Prior to 1851

 * Archive Resources Kit
 * Orphan School Admission registers, 1817-33
 * Applications for admission into and Applications for children out of the Orphan Schools, 1825-33

"The ARK is held by 40 community access points across NSW. The majority of access points are libraries. The ARK consists of microfilm copies of our most popular and heavily used colonial records. Included are records relating to convict arrivals, assisted immigrants, births, deaths and marriages, publicans' licences, electoral rolls, naturalisation, returns of the colony ('Blue Books'), land grants, and the wide range of functions of the Colonial Secretary (1788-1825). You may find that the ARK (or parts of it) are held at a library near you."
 * Community Access Points A list of libraries and archives which hold microcopies of the Archive Resource Kit records