He is the fourth child of Caroline De Mamiel (1856-1922) and her first husband Thomas Mahy.

Father of Mary Eileen Mahy (Mary Watts. – mum)

Stephen Martin Mahy was born at Sebastopol, united shire of Beechworth, Victoria, on June 30, 1882. Sebastopol was a gold mining centre about equidistant from Beechworth and Wangaratta.

Aged about one year old at the time of his father’s death, Stephen was brought up by his grandfather, Stanislaus De Mamiel and his step-grandmother, Susan Jane De Mamiel. In his will Stanislaus says, “I bequeath to my grandson, Stephen Mahy, the sum of one hundred pounds to be paid to him on his attaining the age of twenty-five years, and conditionally on his remaining with me until he attains that age. He was fourteen at the time of his grandfather’s death.

Stephen did his apprenticeship as a blacksmith and wheel-wright with Mr Tom Cameron in Leeton, NSW. He excelled in building sulkies and painting beautiful designs on the sides of them.

He entered into a partnership in a blacksmith shop called “Day and Mahy” in Howlong, NSW.

He later married Antoinetta Elizabeth Gersbach on 11 July, 1917 in St Joseph’s Catholic Church, Leeton, NSW.

He died on June 13, 1933 at Lewisham Hospital, Sydney, and is buried in Leeton.