Gender and age: Women, teenage girls, babies
Controling organisation: The Salvation Army as a third-party provider to State, faith-based
Operational period: 1920 - 1974/1975. Registered 23/3/1929, under the supervision of the Health Department before 1962.
Adoption Information: The Salvation Army was a maternity provider for many years, and offered services to pregnant women in Auckland, Gisborne, Napier, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.
These private Hospitals for married and unmarried mothers were called Bethany Hospitals and operated for many decades. The Gisborne Hospital's official name was Edward Murphy Memorial Maternity Hospital/Home; the Dunedin Hospital was Redroofs Maternity Hospital. They still hold some records of these Hospitals.
These records include some adoption records.
Gisborne Photo News:
Digital NZ:
Te Ara: Matron with baby, Edward Murphy Hospital
Papers Past: MURPHY MEMORIAL HOME
31 September 2020 Affidavit of Anita Ngaire Easton for Oranga Tamariki - Ministry for Children to the Abuse in Care Inquiry
Information provided by The Salvation Army to the Crown Response Unit on 1 July 2024
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