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Julia Leftwich was born around the Bloomfield area in Queensland. She is from the Wujal Wujal and Kuku-Yalanji people. After her mother died, Leftwich lived with the Nunn family. When Mr Nunn died, the police removed Leftwich and sent her first to the police station at Cairns and then to Yarrabah.

Leftwich married when she was roughly eighteen years old in 1912. She and her husband had nine children, the oldest of whom was Fred Leftwich (q.v.). Leftwhich left Yarrabah with her husband and children in 1924 on an exemption ticket to give her family a better life and to escape the domineering rule of the Mission.