John Stephen Maley

John Stephen Maley (1839-1910), engineer, was born on 5 April 1839 in Albany, Western Australia, son of Kennedy Maley from northern Ireland and his wife, Martha Mary from Hampshire, England. He spent his early years in Albany and on the Murray River. Apprenticed to Solomon Cook of Perth he became a mechanical expert on the steam ferries on the Swan River and worked on the reconditioning of the Causeway over the Swan River.

In the 1860s Maley went to Greenough Flats, the colony's wheat centre, where he was granted blocks of some ten acres (4 ha) each, on which with the help of convict labour he built houses. He engineered the building of the first bridge over the Greenough River. He planted wheat, built a three-storied mill of stone and beside it, Home Cottage, his two-storied residence, both still standing in 1973. Another of his enterprises was the Golden Sheaf Hotel which he later sold to William Wilson; it was demolished after severe damage in the great flood of 1888. He ground all the flour needed at Greenough Flats, Geraldton and Northhampton. His mill was the first to use silk dressing machinery, and with Charles Crowther in 1872 he shipped fifty tons of silk dressed flour to England, where it was much admired.

Maley was a vestryman of St Catherine's Anglican Church, chairman of the Greenough Roads Board, and for several years president of the Geraldton Agricultural Society. Kind, benevolent and given to hospitality, he applied progressive methods to his business. His inherited Irish vivacity is illustrated by his escapade immediately after Governor Hampton had declared the new Perth Bridge and Causeway open for traffic, in galloping ahead before he could be stopped, determined to be the first across it. His health declined in later years and he died at Greenough on 28 December 1910. On 27 August 1862 he had married Elizabeth Keniest (b.1841), eldest daughter of Frederic Waldeck; they had nine sons and five daughters. Two sons volunteered for service in the South African war, others established a farming property at Three Springs and two entered the Western Australian parliament.

Obituary http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38360925

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66285951

BDM WA

Death 1910 (1911/3100002) Greenough; Maley, John Stephen, 71, son of Kennedy MALEY and Martha Mary GOODCHILD

John Stephen MALEY

Birth 5 Apr 1839 Albany, Western Australia,
Married 27/8/1862 Greenough WA
Residence Between 1860 and 1910 Greenough, Western Australia, Australia
Burial 1910 Cemetery, Greenough, Western Australia.Pioneer Cemetery
Death 28 Dec 1910 Greenough, Western Australia, Australia
Father Kennedy MALEY, b.1807, Limerick, Ireland d 15/9/1882
Mother Martha Mary GOODCHILD, b.11 Aug 1804, Hampshire, England
John and Elizabeth had 14 children from their marriage.

https://greenoughmuseum.org.au/the-maley-family/