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Keira Jenkins

Healing call as centenary marked at notorious boys home

Hundreds of Aboriginal boys were taken from their families to Kinchela between 1924 and 1970. (Supplied by Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation/AAP PHOTOS)

Uncle James Michael 'Widdy' Welsh was taken from his family in Coonamble, in central NSW, when he was eight years old.

He was taken hundreds of kilometres away to the Kinchela Aboriginal Boys Home, in Kempsey on the state's mid north coast.

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