Delia Sweeney interviewed by Jenny Gall in the Bringing them home oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 1608162
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Sweeney, Delia, 1939-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1999
- 2 digital audio tapes (116 min.)
- Series:
- Bringing them home oral history project.
- Summary:
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Delia Sweeney, a nurse and British orphan, who migrated to an Australian orphanage in Rockhampton, Qld. Sweeney speaks about her childhood in St. Anthony's Home, a Catholic orphanage in London, and about migrated to Australia at age 12 she with 14 others from the orphanage. She was placed at St. Joseph's Home, Neerkol, near Rockhampton, Qld. Sweeney describes the harsh living conditions at the Home, and working as a domestic servant of elite families in the area from the age of 15 until she turned 21. Sweeney later trained as a nurse before marrying.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on May 15, 1999.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Transcript only.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Gall, Jennifer, 1959-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Bringing them home oral history project.
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- Creation date:
- 1999
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