Gender and age: Mixed, at time of closure.Capacity: 1950: 114 in careControlling organisation: Sisters of NazarethOperational period: Registered 23/4/1929, closed 24/6/1951.Information provided by the Catholic Church notes that there was a St John's Orphanage (Middleton) at Middleton and Nash Road, Christchurch and that this orphanage was separate to the St Joseph's Orphanage at Halswell. The information provided by the Catholic Church doesn't reference the names Sacred Heart Orphanage, St Joseph's Girls' Orphanage, or reference the Lincoln Road address provided by Oranga Tamariki. However, it appears likely that they are the same orphanage given the opening dates match.
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