It wouldn't have been Carramar Homes would it? Brian Greenaway A Alloway wrote: > John > I am sure the place Malcolm is trying to find is the Cootharinga Home for > Crippled Children (or something like this, before the days of > discriminatory language.) It catered for people with all sorts of > disabilities, and they lived there, so probably your couple lived on the > premises if he was a caretaker. I think it would have been closed down, at > least 10 years ago. There was a court case about the treatment of inmates > in the last 10 years I think. There is now a similar sort of place called > the Cootharinga Society of North Queensland, Warburton Street, North Ward, > 4810. PH. 07 47 71 5840. I suppose there would be some sort of > connection. I think your best bet would be to write a letter to the > editor, Townsville Bulletin - email address - > [email protected] There would still be a lot of people > around Townsville who worked there, or who were inmates. > Hope this helps > Anne Alloway, Townsville > > ---------- > > ==== AUS-NQ Mailing List ==== > Search the Rootsweb World Connect Project - an ever growing collection of searchable Gedcoms at http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ -- - --------------------------------------------------- Click here for Free Video!! http://www.gohip.com/free_video/