Stephen Scholey
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New South Wales Legislative Assembly
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. He was born in Garden street, Holbeck
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village, near Leeds
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, West Riding of Yorkshire
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, and died at East Maitland, New South Wales
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Family
The son of John Scholey (1774 - 1834) a landed proprietor, by his spouse Mary née Gray (1778-1856), Stephen, with his brother and sister, inherited a Leeds estate from their father which included a major part of the township of HolbeckHolbeck
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, now a suburb of Leeds.
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Stephen Scholey was first apprenticed as a butcher, as was his brother, John. Stephen was listed in White's History, Gazetter & Directory of the West Riding of YorkshireWest Riding of Yorkshire
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for 1837 as resident at 25 Templars Street, with a butcher's shop at 2 Cheapside, Leeds. The 1853 edition gives his residence as 27 Trafalgar Street, Leeds.
New South Wales
By 1855 he was in East Maitland, New South WalesMaitland, New South Wales
Maitland is a city in the Lower Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia and the seat of Maitland City Council, situated on the Hunter River approximately by road north of Sydney and north-west of Newcastle...
, where he had established himself as a livestock agent, and gradually diversified his business and political interests. In March 1862 a new municipality of East Maitland was created and elections were called. He was elected Alderman for East Maitland Municipality on 25 April 1862 ; and on 2 May 1867, he was commissioned by the Colonial Office
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, with a Letters Patent
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from the colony's governor to that effect, to be Warden and President of the newly created Maitland District Council.
In 1869 he stood unsuccessfully for a seat in the colony's parliament coming second, losing by just 35 votes. However, on 24 February 1872, he was elected the Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
New South Wales Legislative Assembly
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for East Maitland
Electoral district of East Maitland
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, a seat he held until his death. "Stephen Scholey, M.L.A.," had a Town Address in Jamison Street, Sydney
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. He was a friend and colleague of the famous New South Wales parliamentarian Sir Henry Parkes
Henry Parkes
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, and a leading light in the temperance movement
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He died from a ruptured ulcer, and was buried in the Wesleyan
Methodism
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cemetery at East Maitland on 14 May 1878, the day after his death.
An obituary for Stephen Scholey, with an engraving of him, appeared on Saturday 1 June 1878 in The Sydney Mail
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He married Ann (1809-1888) daughter of William Spink, a Yeoman of Wintringham, East Riding of Yorkshire
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, by his spouse Mary Topham. They had two children: John Scholey
John Scholey
John Scholey was an extensive landed proprietor, prominent businessman, colliery owner, and Mayor...
(1840-1908), and Mary Ann (1847-1896) who married, as his second wife, Daniel Cotterill (1826-1916).