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Marjorie Woodrow was born on Keewrong Station in New South Wales. Through her mother line she is a Barkindji woman. Woodrow grew up at Griffith until she was nine years of age. She then went back onto Keewrong Station. At about the age of thirteen, Woodrow was sent to Cootamundra Girls' Home for allegedly stealing a pair of stockings and later to the Girls' Industrial School in Parramatta.

She married and had eight children. When she was about seventy years old, Woodrow was reunited with her mother through Link-Up and was able to spend a short amount of time with her before her mother's death.

Woodrow's story was recorded by the National Library of Australia for the Bringing Them Home oral history project and appeared in the associated publication Many Voices: Reflections on Experiences of Indigenous Child Separation (q.v.) edited by Doreen Mellor and Anna Haebich (q.q.v.) (2002).