• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE4459

Hodgetts, Maisie

  • Birth name Craig, Maisie Watts
(1934 – 2018)
  • Born 1934, Scotland
  • Died 2018, Denmark Western Australia Australia
  • Occupation Farmer

Summary

Maisie Hodgetts was brought up in Scotland and moved permanently to Australia with her husband and three children in 1973. They settled on a small farm in Denmark, Western Australia. Sadly, Maisie’s husband died in a drowning accident three years later, before the farm was fully established. Maisie decided to stay in Australia and make a go of the farm on her own.

Archival resources

  • National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
    • Maisie Hodgetts interviewed by Ros Bowden in the Women of the land oral history project
    • Women of the land oral history project

Published resources