Person

Sutherland, Sulina Murray MacDonald (1839 - 1909)

Born: 26 December 1839
Culgower, Sutherland, Scotland
Died: 8 October 1909
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation: Nurse and Child welfare worker

Summary

Sulina Sutherland founded a children's aid society in Melbourne in 1881, which in 1894 became the Victorian Neglected Children's Aid Society and also founded "The Sutherland Homes for Orphans, Neglected and Destitute Children". She was a child welfare worker for twenty-eight years.

Archival resources

Presbyterian Church of Victoria

Sulina Murray MacDonald Sutherland - Records, 1886 - 1895; Presbyterian Church of Victoria. Details

Royal District Nursing Service

Sulina Murray MacDonald Sutherland - Records, 1885 - 1909; Royal District Nursing Service. Details

Scots Church, Melbourne

Sulina Murray MacDonald Sutherland - Records, 1881 - 1894; Scots Church, Melbourne. Details

Sutherland Homes for Children

Sulina Murray MacDonald Sutherland - Records, 1908 - 1909; Sutherland Homes for Children. Details

Victorian Children's Aid Society

Sulina Murray MacDonald Sutherland - Records, 1894 - 1909; Victorian Children's Aid Society. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regularly edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Book Sections

Hoban, Ruth, 'Sutherland, Sulina Murray MacDonald (1839-1909), nurse and child welfare worker' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 6: 1851 - 1890 R - Z, Bede Nairn, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1976), pp. 225-226. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/sutherland-sulina-murray-macdonald-4674. Details

Resources

Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7448467. Details
VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/41101788. Details
'Sutherland, Selina Murray (18391226-19091008)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1463251. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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