Victoria Stuart interviewed by Rob Willis in the Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 5751943
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Stuart, Victoria, 1946-, interviewee
- Online Access:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2011
- 3 sound files (ca. 155 min.)
- Series:
- Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project.
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
- Summary:
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Victoria Stuart, born in 1946 in Hobart, discusses her parents and family background; childhood fun; her mother's death; her siblings being separated from each other; being put into private boarding with a family in Moona, Tas.; regulations regarding boarding and welfare care; her education at Glenorchy; learning to knit; going to live with other families; visits from her father; meals; possessions; punishments; running away; moving to Maylands Girls Home; her memories of Maylands and the dormitories; daily routine and chores; bells; bath time; clothing; haircuts; food and meals; Christmas; the ratio of staff to children; the delegation of work; religious instruction; friendships amongst the girls; the treatment of bed wetters; discipline and punishments; isolation experienced at school due to the fact that she was from Maylands; her father taking her out of Maylands to live in the country; boarding with a family in town; returning to the Home (1960); her relationship with and treatment by the Matron; kindnesses shown by staff.
Stuart discusses hearing about Mt Saint Canice; arriving at Mt Saint Canice and her first impressions; laundry work and work conditions; girls' ages; relationships; possessions; discipline; staff and girl numbers; meals; feeling cared for; educational standards; medical diagnoses; institutionalisation and social skills; her feelings towards the Salvation Army; meeting up with former residents of Maylands; demonstrating outside a Salvation Army citadel; advertising for other children who were at Maylands and making contact with some; media coverage about her treatment at Maylands in the Sunday Mercury (c. 1994), reactions to the story; making contact with a mentor from the Salvation Army; getting a job in the Public Service; moving to a job in an Old Age Home; pregnancy; her living conditions and assistance; living in different States; her feelings about welfare support; her relationship with her daughter and granddaughters; her health and medical conditions; spirituality; her relationship with and affection for animals; survival skills; her reaction to the Apology; healing and her philosophy on life.
- Notes:
- Recorded on 15 October 2011 in Mt. Direction, Tas.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (6 p.) available.
- Subject:
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- Stuart, Victoria, 1946- -- Interviews
- Maylands Girls Home (New Town, Tas.) -- History
- Convent of the Good Shepherd 'Mt St Canice' (Sandy Bay, Tas.) -- History
- Children -- Institutional care -- Tasmania -- History -- 20th century
- Children -- Institutional care -- Tasmania -- Psychological aspects
- Foster home care -- Tasmania
- Other authors/contributors:
- Willis, Rob, 1944-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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- Until 2081 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2011
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