Born 1911 in Maylands, Western Australia [15]
Daughter of Samuel BARBOUR and Meta HILFERS [15]
Assistant School Teacher at the State School in Three Springs 1933-1937 [73]
Received a weekly salary of £3/8/- in 1933, and annual salaries of £169/4/- in 1934, £235 in 1935 and 1936, and £242 in 1937 [73]
Attended the Show Ball following the Three Springs Agricultural Show on Thursday 21 September 1933 [5: 29-Sep-1933]
Committee Member of the Three Springs Tennis Club in 1933-34 and 1934-35 [5: 6-Oct-1933, 16-Nov-1934]
Ladies Captain of the Three Springs Tennis Club in 1935-36 and 1936-37 [5: 20-Sep-1935, 18-Sep-1936]
In a dress of black and white organdie attended the Three Springs Golf Club's Annual Ball on Thursday 12 October 1933 [5: 20-Oct-1933]
Attended the Dance conducted by the Carnamah Toc H at the Carnamah Hall on Saturday 24 February 1934 [5: 2-Mar-1934]
Member of the Three Springs Golf Club 1934-1936 - was Captain in 1936 [5: 25-May-1934, 21-Jun-1935, 9-Oct-1936]
Won the Bridge Tournament at Mrs Sara MALEY's home on Parakalia Farm in Three Springs on Monday 23 July 1934 [5: 27-Jul-1934]
Attended the Three Springs C.W.A. Ball at the Three Springs Hall on the evening of Thursday 22 November 1934 [5: 23-Nov-1934]
Herself and Jack MCGOWAN won the Lucky Spot at the Saint Patrick's Day Ball in Three Springs on 18 March 1935 [5: 22-Mar-1935]
Judge of the Educational section of the Carnamah District Agricultural Society's Annual Shows in 1935 and 1936 [5: 20-Sep-1935, 18-Sep-1936]
She was a passenger in Alex BARR's car to Perth one night in April 1936 when an owl smashed through the windscreen [5: 24-Apr-1936]
At the Three Springs Tennis Club's Dance on 17 August 1936 he was presented with trophy for being Ladies Champion [5: 21-Aug-1936]
Attended the Surprise Social on 10 December and the Valedictory Social on 15 December 1936 for Rachel M. A. WALLACE [5]
She rendered an elocutionary item at the Golf Club's Surprise Social and a recitation at the Valedictory Social [5: 24-Dec-1936]
Attended the Surprise Party for Miss Joyce E. BASTIAN at The Oaks Farm in Three Springs on 12 February 1937 [5: 19-Feb-1937]
She was bid farewell and presented with a tea set at the tennis courts in Three Springs on Sunday 21 March 1937 [5: 25-Mar-1937]
Left Three Springs during the first week of April 1937 and after getting married initially resided at Youanmi [5: 25-Mar-1937]
Married George Morrison MALEY in Perth in 1937 [66]
They were living in or near Kalgoorlie when their sons Robert John and William Samuel were baptised in 1941 and 1944 [84]
Later resided in the Perth suburb of Ferndale [2]
Died 21 October 2007; ashes interred at Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth, Western Australia (FC Section, Ground Niche, 12) [2]
Reference: Carnamah Historical Society & Museum and North Midlands Project, 'Margaret Meta May Barbour / Maley' in Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs, retrieved 16 November 2024 from www.carnamah.com.au/bio/margaret-meta-may-barbour [reference list] |
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