after 51 years of searching # Albury pensioner reunited with his daughter

after 51 years of searching # Albury pensioner reunited with his



Katie Bergin was just nine-months-old the last time her 24-year-old father Tony Brown saw her in London.

Mr Brown had a relationship with a 29-year-old friend – Katie’s mum – a fiercely independent woman who was taken to a home for unmarried mothers and asked to give up her daughter for adoption.

She vehemently refused and eventually gave birth to her daughter in Liverpool.

She told me my dad’s name was Anthony Brown and he was originally from Wales,”

The information proved difficult in finding her father, who had served in the RAF, moved to Australia by 1975 and remarried.

A Facebook plea to find her father was spotted by the keen-eyed head of Family Finders, a BBC documentary, who told Ms Bergin her search would need to go far beyond the borders of the UK.



It took her 17,000 kilometres away to Albury, New South Wales through the Australian contact number of Mr Brown’s mother.



Ms Bergin told the Border Mail when she finally spoke to her father “it was a flood of tears – we both couldn’t speak”.

He said to me, ‘it’s like the moon and the stars have finally arrived back on Earth’, and that’s what it’s like,” she said.

Ms Bergin is approaching two weeks at her 77-year-old father’s home, and soon plans to introduce him to his 21-year-old grand-daughter, Grace to catch up on years of lost time.