Email to a friend Sunbury by Jen Angee Our Price:  $20.00 Add to Cart Qty Out of Stock Add Review Ask a Question Sunbury: What to do with Our Children and Our Unfortunates by Jen Angee   Product details Paperback: 108 pages Publisher: Jen Angee ISBN: 9781764644051 Trim size: 210 x 297 mm   Synopsis    I began to research the Sunbury Asylum using articles written for the newspapers. Having done a lot of transcribing for Trove newspapers during my many years of family history research, I was aware of the amount of information contained in these articles. And the website did not disappoint me.   Having learned that the site I was writing about began as industrial schools, this is where I began and I chose to replace many of the old English language with more modern text because the meaning of many of the words used in those times is not readily known now.   The articles were written by special reporters of various newspapers from their own research on the subject, the information often having been obtained from those who were called ‘visitors’. Could be a church leader, an administrator of an institution, a member of parliament or even a group of important people involved in the decisions of Government or citizens welfare. These had the job of visiting and assessing the way a government institution was run.   I have chosen the most informative writings when there were duplicate articles about a subject. Bear in mind that a great many of the children were not criminal in any way but would have come from families who had recently immigrated and not been able to find their way. Being sent to an Industrial School was often due to a death of a parent of having been deserted by one. Many children were not even orphans but were detained and ‘sent up’ when found to be neglected. Many were even too young to gain any benefit attending such a school, this makes their destination and their finale even more distressing.   Two of my own families appear in these articles. George Harris Noy and James Harris Noy, death and injury on the Sunbury railway. James Robert Cathie and Robert Cathie, both well known in the Sunbury district.   Colour photographs of the Sunbury Asylum buildings are from my own collection.       Currently there are no reviews for this product. (View All) Currently there are no questions for this product. Related Products Brothers in Arms $39.95 Remember Your Leaders – Volume 1 $25.00 Two Squatters - The lives of George Playne and Daniel Jennings $35.85   Similar Products If a Thing's Worth Doing $45.00 A Miscellany of left-handers $24.95 Whistles in the Valley $19.95 Waters Under the Bridge $39.95