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The long journey home 60 years on, one former Child Migrant shares his amazing story
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Child Migrant, Mick Kenny, at the site of the Murray Dwyer Orphanage
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t’s been 60 years since Mick Kenny was brought to Mayfield’s Murray Dwyer Orphanage and, like the thousands of other British child migrants who were transported without their parents’ knowledge or consent, he came here on a lie. “We were told this was going to be a holiday,�
Mr Kenny said. “And as far as we knew, we were all orphans.â€? Mr Kenny wasn’t told that he still had a mother in England, who was very much alive and pining for her son. “My mum put me in an orphanage when I was one and she wrote a letter to [them saying] that she couldn’t afford to keep me for a little while,â€? Mr Kenny said. “But when my aunty and mum went to pick me up [‌] they told her I’d been adopted out to a British family – it was all lies.â€?
Mr Kenny was, in fact, still in the orphanage and remained there until the age of six, when he was shipped off to Australia. “After six weeks of being here, we knew we weren’t going home – we sort of worked it out,â€? Mr Kenny said, while speaking of his years at Murray Dwyer Orphanage with laughter, despite the hardships and cruelty faced. “We sat on the side of a hill, just outside the gates, looking at the Hunter River [‌] planning an escape.â€? Continues on page 4.
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