Northern Territory Tribute to Women 2003.,
Medal of the Order of Australia 1994.,
Biographical notes
In 1927 at the age of 14, Mayse arrived in Pine Creek with her parents and siblings. The family had travelled extensively through out Western Australia and the Northern Territory. They settled in Pine Creek when Mayse's father bought the Pine Creek Hotel. Mayse learned the hotel business from an early age. She often helped out in the pub performing all duties, everything from bed making to being the barmaid.
Mayse married Joe (Bogger) Young in 1933 and they moved to the Spring Hill mine. With the advent of war, the family was evacuated in December of 1941 and went to Adelaide. After the war they returned to Pine Creek where the hotel had been used as a recreation hall. Though damaged the family worked hard to make the hotel operational. By the 1950's they had moved to Katherine and invested in the Commercial Hotel. They also invested in pastoral land such as the cattle station, Birrindudu.
Mayse became the President of the Red Cross Society and worked as a volunteer with many other organizations. In 1963, when elected as the President of the Pine Creek Race Club, Mayse became the first female to ever be elected as president of a Race Club. Mayse received the Order of Australia in 1994 for service to the community.
Source: Eulogy given by Roger Steele.,
Subject
Women,
Northern Territory,
Related materials
Kirby, Diane. Barmaids : a history of women's work in pubs. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 331.4816479594 KIRK,
Young, Mayse. No place for a woman: the autobiography of outback publican Mayse Young. N.S.W. : Pan Australia, 1991. NTC B647.94 YOU,
Wright, Clare. "Of public houses and private lives female hotelkeepers as domestic entrepreneurs", Australian Historical Studies. April 2001, 32(116), p.57-75.,
ABC, Stateline : A tribute to an outback pioneering legend. 31 March 2006,
Related links
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/77657/20071017-1741/www.nt.gov.au/dcm/women/tribute/2003/mayseyoung.html [Department of the Chief Minister : Recipients of the Northern Territory Tribute to Women 2003],
https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/874006 [Medal of the Order of Australia, 26 January 1994],
http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/genpdf/chamber/hansardr/2006-03-28/0110/hansard_frag.pdf;fileType=application%2Fpdf [Commonwealth of Australia : Tribute to Mayse Young, by Dave Tollner, MP, 28 March 2006],
http://abc.gov.au/news/stories/2006/03/30/1605097.htm [ABC news : Mayse farewelled in Darwin. 30 March, 2006],