Aimee O' Malley, a second generation Scot from New Zealand, was the daughter of Mrs. Charles Horton (Anne nee Bath), by a previous marriage and her maiden name was Amy Garrod. King O'Malley, a politician, met her while residing as a boarder at her mother's home in Melbourne in 1901. He remained nostalgic for his first wife, Rosy, who had died in 1886. Although reportedly emotionally unattracted to Mrs. Horton's daughter, after nine years of living with mother and daughter, O'Malley decided to marry her. On 10 May 1910 Amy Garrod and King O'Malley were married in Melbourne. Larry Noye's O'Malley MHR (1985): 118 reports that 'Emotion wasn't strong between them, but Amy had her mother's businesslike ways.' She had been paid for collecting rents from the homes O'Malley owned and doing other tasks. As a wedding present he gave her nineteen small cottages, many in a run down condition. They had no children. On his death she was to be paid 18 pounds a week during her lifetime and live in the family home. She left an estate of more than 20,000 pounds which she bequeathed to the King and Amy O'Malley Trust Fund, providing scholarships for home economics students. Larry Noye (1985): 296 asserts Aimee O'Malley died in February 1956; Hoyle (1988); 86 says 1958. The Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages indicates 1956.
(Source: Arthur Hoyle, King O'Malley 'The American Bounder' (1981); Arthur Hoyle, 'O'Malley, King (1858 - 1953)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 11, MUP, 1988, pp 84-86; Arthur Hoyle, 'Some Reflections on King O'Malley', Canberra Historical Journal 43 (March 1999): 32-34; Larry Noye O'Malley MHR (1985)).
