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| Uncertain Beginnings |
| My Genesis |
| The Journey Still Walkin' Uncertain Beginnings Being a State Ward Truth and Lies Never Fitting In Your Aboriginal Assimilation Love of Two Mothers A False Father Adoption My Art Links |
| I was born at Crown Street Women's Hospital in Surrey Hills, Sydney during February 1968. Given the name Margaret Murray, my birth certificate was to show no other details other then the name of my mother. Laurel Doyle, known as Murray. That was it! I believe that Laurel fell pregnant with me while in Bourke. She may well have been in service to a family there, and at this time the circumstances of my conception are unknown. But deep in my soul I feel it had not been of a positive nature. Laurel seems to have been sent to Paramatta in or around the month of August, and staying there until by birth. About a month after birth, I was taken to a police station, (by an unknown person at this time) some place in Sydney. It was here that the police on duty recorded my physical state of health as being "malnurished". From there I was taken to Myee Babies Home in Arnecliffe, made a Ward of the State, and waited for foster parents. Three months later they came in the form of Marie and Bill Egan. These humble folks were seasoned foster parents. They had for over 15 years been taking in foster children from all backgrounds, and at the time that I came into their care , they had had another adopted Aboriginal girl. They also had 3 biological children of their own. I stayed with this family my entire life. Was raised for the first half of my childhood at Leura in the Blue Mountians, relocationg to Bathurst in 1976. The Egan family were quite a conservative Catholic family, and this is the enviroment in which I was raise. it would be 18 years after I came into their care that my adoption into the Egan family would become legal. Next >> |
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| My mother, Laurel and me in foster care |