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Molly Craig was born in Jigalong , Western Australia, c. Jigalong was established in the far north west of Australia in , as the location for a maintenance and rations store for workmen constructing the rabbit-proof fence. The rabbit-proof fence is a pest-exclusion fence constructed between and to keep rabbits and other agricultural pests, from the east, out of Western Australian pastoral areas.

In the first part of the 20th century, children of mixed Indigenous and white parentage were frequently removed from their families and placed in institutions or with white families as domestic servants. In , Molly probably 14 , her half-sister Daisy Kadibil aged about 8 and her cousin Gracie aged about 11 were taken from their families and transported over 1, kilometres mi to the Moore River Native Settlement , north of Perth.

Craig piggy-backed the younger girls in turn. In , her second daughter Annabelle was born. Molly Kelly was taken to the Moore River settlement again in with her daughters. She left Doris 4 with a relative.

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In , Annabelle Anna Wyld was taken away from Kelly and told she was an orphan. She would never see her mother again, although they were able to exchange gifts before Kelly's death. Kelly died in her sleep in January , at Jigalong, Western Australia, at about 86—87 years old.