Ledger of Child Boarded Out


Number in Record Book Date Placed Out Name and Religion Age Years Description With whom Placed, Occupation, Religion, and Residence Referee Apprenticed, Adopted, or Licensed to Service, and Term
2/4/94 22.11.94 Ball May Josephine A Catholic 2 5/12 Sentenced until 18 yrs J.S Wm. W. Ball A C Porter Ballantyne St West Thebarton Application No. 2940 Subsidy of 5/- per week till 13 yrs
Born 30.6.92 registered 10/4/95
Renewal for adoption form 1.4.96 Ditto 3 5/6 Ditto Ditto ??? 330/96 Adoption

There is a list of visits by various people to May Josephine from 15 January 1895 to 26 June 1908.

For each visit there is an entry in a column headed "Satisfactory or Otherwise". All entries are G G.

In the "Remarks" column it says:

Renewal for adoption from? 1.4.96 vide 330/96.


Source: Ledgers of Children Boarded Out-Destitute Board Later State Children's Department 1862-1908
Source: Ancestry - South Australia, Australia, Destitute Asylum Ledgers and Admissions to Industrial and Reformatory Schools, 1849-1913