Heather Garnsey is coming to the Lake

Australian GeneaGuru and retired Executive Officer of SAG, Heather Garnsey, will the the guest speaker via Zoom on 14th November at The Lake Macquarie Family History Group Meeting. The Group has allocated 20 invitations for visitors. If you would like to attend as a guest please email lakemacfhg@gmail.com

Heather's topic is The Sydney Benevolent Asylum and its triangle of care.

In 19th century Sydney the Benevolent Asylum was a place of temporary refuge for destitute ex-convicts, deserted wives and abandoned children and by the 1870s it was the main lying-in hospital for single pregnant girls. From the 1850s it also forged close relations with the Randwick Institute for Destitute Children and Liverpool Asylum. The surviving records can tell us a great deal about the people it helped.