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Controlling Organisation: St Mary's Guild of the Anglican Church
Operational period: 1915 - 1962 Registered 13/5/1929, closed 21/12/1962.
Further information:
Very young children from St Barnabas' Anglican Home for Babies in Khandallah were transferred to Duncan Cottage at age two.
Once the boys turned seven years they then moved to the Anglican Boys Home in Lower Hutt, the girls remaining at St Mary's Home.
Duncan Cottage closed in 1962 and was used as a Transit Home for mothers temporarily unable to look after their children.
Duncan Cottage for boys and girls aged two to seven years was established as an adjoining property to St Marys in 1915, admitting boys in 1921.
Records are held at the Alexander Turnbull Library (part of the National Library of New Zealand) in Wellington.
Covered by St Mary's Guild minute books c 1920s.
Information from the National Library: https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22353102
Access to St Mary's Minute Book: https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23080749
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R18697772 St. Mary's Homes, Karori - 1941 - 1972 (Held in Wellington on an open access basis)
31 September 2020 Affidavit of Anita Ngaire Easton for Oranga Tamariki - Ministry for Children to the Abuse in Care Inquiry
Information provided by the Anglican Church to the Crown Response Unit on 11 July 2024
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