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Agnes McIlwain Doig, née Smith (1906-1992) domestic help, coal miner’s wife, Communist and community activist
Birth: 13 April 1906 in Shotts, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, daughter of Thomas Smith, mining contractor, and Agnes, née McIlwain. Marriage: September 1928 with Presbyterian forms, in South Richmond, Victoria, to Walter ‘Wattie’ Doig, coal miner. They had three sons and three daughters. Death: 25 November 1992 at Wonthaggi, Victoria.
Resources
Common Cause, 1 February 1958; Wendy Lowenstein, Weevils in the flour: an oral record of the 1930s Depression in Australia (South Yarra, 1978).
'Doig, Agnes McIlwain (1906–1992)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/doig-agnes-mcilwain-32666/text40562, accessed 1 September 2024.
Agnes Doig, 1960
University of Melbourne Archives, 11343/75659
13 April,
1906
Shotts,
Lanarkshire,
Scotland
25 November,
1992
(aged 86)
Wonthaggi,
Victoria,
Australia
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