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Record #5512

Name :: : Derrick MORIARTY (1943 - )
Father: :
Mother: :

BMD and other details

Date of Birth: : 1943
Marriage (1): :
Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: :

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, London, Chelsea

Abode (2) : Place of Death / Burial

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : Oct 1951
Country: : Australia
Ship: : New Australia
Placement Family: :

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): :
Agency: : Fairbridge Homes

NotesA birth registration was found for Derrick Moriarty: Mother's Maiden Surname: Holloway; Date of Registration: Jul Aug Sep 1943; Registration district: Chelsea; Registration county: Greater London; Volume Number: 1a; Page Number: 470.

In 1951, Derrick Moriarty, 8 (along with brother, Richard P. Moriarty, 6) arrived at Fremantle, Australia, in a group of 6 children c/o Miss Hall, Fairbridge Farm Schools, 38 Holland Villas Road, London, England.

Derrick and Richard Moriarty were placed in the Fairbridge Farm School, Molong, Australia. Derek absconded and was returned in 1959. Derek is a committee member of the Old Fairbridgians' Association of Molong. and is currently residing in Berkeley, N.S.W.

On the website, Leaguenet ({website}sportingpulse.com), Peter Montgomery, reflected:

"I recall being 'taken in' by this young half-back who had an albino look about him. He fascinated me. Snow white hair, white eyebrows, white skin and a wiry frame into which he packed about nine and half-stone of solid muscle.

His arms and legs had ?homemade? ink tattoos, and I thought to myself, "this is one tough buggar."

The player was the one and only Derek Moriarty, a Magpie Hall of Famer, and one of the best pound for pound players EVER to pull on a Magpie jumper.

Derek - who came to Australia from England with the ?The Fairbridge Farm School Child Migration Scheme? at 8 years of age...had a tough life and he credits his involvement with Rugby League as preventing him from getting into all sorts of trouble with the law..

'I was always in trouble, I copped plenty of floggings at the hands of the police, as was the norm in those days. They belted you, rather than make you go to court.

'Luckily Neville Hunter and Garry Marriage got me involved in the Hay League side and I never looked back', Derek told me.

We, the players, nick named Derek 'White Eagle' and the 'Iron Man'.

Both fitted him to a tee.

After every game he would treat himself, smothering the acres of lost skin with a red based lotion called 'Mercurochrome' ? which gave him the appearance of painted Indian.

He used it right up until the time he retired ? at the age of 38 years of age with Berkeley in the Illawarra.

Derek?s love of the Magpies Club is what sport is all about. Always the life of the party.

He was a ?Neil John? before Neil-John Nisbet, such was his dedication and commitment to the Club.

He was a role model then ? and he is still a role model for me.

He is a great mate to all the players who were team members with him ? and we loved catching up with him at the recent 1967 Premiership re-union."

In an article in Adelaide Today, June 17, 2008, it was reported,

"PREMIER Mike Rann has formally apologised to people abused as children while in state care.

Today, Mr Rann read a shared apology, signed by the government and the Anglican, Catholic, Uniting and Lutheran churches."

Derek Moriarty commented, "I'm a victim, albeit from another State, and I share the feelings of those affected by Mr Rann's apology. We are still waiting for ours. What I can not understand is that people would rather attempt to score political mileage or scorn those in office, rather than accept what has been proven to be a blight on Australia's history. By the way, 'We Are Not Fooled' any of the time !!!"

ContributorsCreated : 2009-03-11 11:20:26 / From original database

Last Updated : 2009-03-11 11:28:23 /

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ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links
8354	ABBOTT, Frederick Albert Prosper	1885	ENG, LND, Homerton	Apr 1895 : Parisian	CAN	Barnardos
5046	ABBS, Bertie Cecil John	1914	ENG, LND, St. Pancras	Mar 1930 : Duchess of Richmond	CAN	Barnardos
18925	ABERY, Harold Thomas	1908	ENG, LND, Marylebone	Mar 1927 : Melita	CAN	Salvation Army
3078	ABIGAIL, Helen Mary	1877	ENG, LND, Pimlico	Aug 1894 : Vancouver	CAN	Colonists Aid Society
3104	ABRAMS, Frederick	1892	ENG, LND, Battersea	May 1906 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys	Diblet
3105	ABRAMS, Reginald Edwin	1896	ENG, LND, Battersea	Apr 1909 : Empress of Britain	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys	Diblet
3116	ACHURCH, Florence Daisy	1901	ENG, LND, Fulham	Sep 1913 : Virginian	CAN	MacPherson Homes
3123	ACKERMAN, Arthur Edward	1877	ENG, LND, Wandsworth	Jun 1888 : Parisian	CAN	Louisa Birt
3124	ACKERMAN, George Abraham	1875	ENG, LND, Wandsworth	Jun 1888 : Parisian	CAN	Louisa Birt
3134	ACKLAND, Herbert George	1898	ENG, LND, Camberwell	Oct 1906 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
5493	ACOL, John	1920	ENG, LND, Hampstead	Nov 1932 : Balranald	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
3174	ADAM, Thomas Wilkie	1893	ENG, LND, Pimlico	May 1911 : Pretorian	CAN	Labourers & Domestics
9229	ADAMS, Maud	1885	ENG, LND, Kingsland	Sep 1901 : Tunisian	CAN	Barnardos
8762	ADAMTHWAITE, Ethel Maud	1887	ENG, LND, Holborn	Jul 1898 : Labrador	CAN	Barnardos
9959	ADAMTHWAITE, Mary Kate Jane	1886	ENG, LND	Jul 1898 : Labrador	CAN	Barnardos
9831	ADKINS, Ann	1899	ENG, LND, Camden	Aug 1908 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
9833	ADLINGTON, George Richard	1880	ENG, LND, Limehouse	Nov 1891 : Sardinian	CAN	Barnardos
7340	ADLINGTON, Percival Stanley	1883	ENG, LND, Limehouse	Nov 1891 : Sardinian	CAN	Barnardos
17049	AFFLECK, Adelaide Mary	1897	ENG, LND, Camberwell	Jun 1910 : Corsican	CAN	Unknown Catholic Group
10030	ALBERY, Charles Samuel	1882	ENG, LND, Battersea	Jun 1893 : Vancouver	CAN	Barnardos
9857	ALBURY, George Arthur	1884	ENG, LND, Southwark	Jun 1893 : Vancouver	CAN	Barnardos
8537	ALDEN, James Robert	1872	ENG, LND, Poplar	Aug 1884 : Sardinian	CAN	Barnardos
8538	ALDEN, Thomas George	1878	ENG, LND, Holborn	Jul 1893 : Oregon	CAN	Fegan Homes for Boys
16550	ALDRIDGE, Ada Florence	1900	ENG, LND, Clapham	Jul 1911 : Sicilian		Barnardos	Niksmum
10413	ALEXANDER, Dorothy May	1903	ENG, LND, Shoreditch	Jul 1908 : Tunisian	CAN	Catholic Emigration Association
10414	ALEXANDER, Matilda Julia	1902	ENG, LND, Shoreditch	Jul 1908 : Tunisian	CAN	Catholic Emigration Association
8694	ALEXANDER, Rose	1898	ENG, LND, Hoxton	Jul 1908 : Tunisian	CAN	Catholic Emigration Association
4743	ALEXANDER, Rose Mary	1873	ENG, LND, Kensington	May 1887 : Corean	CAN	Charlotte Alexander
8467	ALGER, Ada	1876	ENG, LND, St Olave	Jul 1886 : Parisian	CAN	Barnardos
9026	ALGER, Ellen	1872	ENG, LND, St. Olave	Jul 1886 : Parisian	CAN	Barnardos
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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