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  Female Firebrands and Reformers - Mary Reibey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Originally from Bury, Lancashire, England, Mary Reibey was convicted of horse-stealing and sentanced to 7 years transportation at the age of 13yo.
She arrived in Sydney Australia on the "Royal Admiral" (1792) and was assigned as a nursemaid in the household of Major Francis Grose.
Reibey then extended his activities to grain transport and importing general merchandise, naming his establishment in Macquarie Place - Entally House - after a suburb in Calcutta.
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 Gunns Ltd | Entally Estate - History
Entally House was built in 1819 by Thomas Haydock Reibey, the eldest son of Mary and Thomas Reibey of Sydney.
In 1792, at the age of 13 and disguised as a boy, Mary was convicted of horse stealing and sentenced to transportation to New South Wales for seven years.
Thomas and Mary were married on September 1, 1794 after Thomas applied for a land grant and sought permission from the authorities for a wedding.
www.entally.com.au /history.html   (183 words)

  
 Australian $20 Note
Mary Reibey was born in Bury, Lancashire, England on 12th.
Reibey had worked for the East India Company and used his contacts with them to successfully start a small import business in Sydney with a partner.
In a few years the business was booming and it continued to expand, as more vessels were added to their fleet, but Thomas Reibey became ill on one of his frequent voyages and his health quickly deteriorated on his return.
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 The Biography of Early Australia
His father, Thomas Reibey, was a prosperous grazier who married Richenda, daughter of Richard Allen, M.D., and his grandmother, Mary Reibey, was a well-known early resident of Sydney.
At an early age Reibey was sent to England to be educated, and he matriculated and entered Trinity College, Oxford, in May 1840.
Reibey was a courteous and kindly man, everywhere respected and revered.
www.bendigolive.com /australia/r/reibey1.htm   (478 words)

  
 Reibey, Thomas (1821 - 1912) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
REIBEY, THOMAS (1821-1912), clergyman, farmer and politician, was born on 24 September 1821 at Entally House, Hadspen, Van Diemen's Land, son of Thomas Haydock Reibey, merchant, and his wife Richardie, née Allen, and grandson of Mary Reibey.
Reibey was an excellent cleric, popular with his parishioners as rector of Holy Trinity, Launceston, and the church at Carrick.
Reibey unsuccessfully sued for libel and the ensuing scandal rocked the colony.
www.adb.online.anu.edu.au /biogs/A060022b.htm   (570 words)

  
 Mary Reibey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mary Reibey was born Mary Haydock in England in 1777.
Landing in Sydney in 1792 she was assigned to a Major and given the duties of nursemaid in his household.
In recognition of her philanthropy Mary Reibei is put on the front of Australian 20 dollar banknote.
www.grandpapencil.com /austral/reiby.htm   (367 words)

  
 Reibey, Mary (1777 - 1855) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
REIBEY, MARY (1777-1855), née Haydock, businesswoman and trader, was born on 12 May 1777 in Bury, Lancashire, England.
Thomas Reibey (1769-1811) appears to have been the first free settler outside the military ring to trade.
Reibey appears to have been an astute trader and kept apart from the squabbles of Governor Bligh and his antagonists.
www.adb.online.anu.edu.au /biogs/A020327b.htm   (1139 words)

  
 RBA: Mary Reibey Biographical Summary
Mary Reibey, baptised Molly Haydock, was born on 12 May 1777 in Bury, Lancashire, England.
Thomas Raby was granted land on the Hawkesbury River, where he and Mary lived and farmed following their marriage.
When Thomas Reibey died on 5 April 1811, Mary assumed sole responsibility for the care of seven children and control of numerous business enterprises.
www.rba.gov.au /CurrencyNotes/NotesInCirculation/bio_mary_reibey.html   (404 words)

  
 Mary Reibey Australia's Pioneer Entrepreneur
Mary Haydock was married to Thomas Raby on September 7, 1794.
In 1805 Thomas Reibey built an impressive new home: two stories, 50 feet long, 30 feet high, and with two granaries in back.
Originally part-owned by Thomas Reibey, but later owned by Mary Reibey, the schooner Mercury was built in Sydney in 1805/6.
www.michigancoinclub.org /mary_reibey.html   (1067 words)

  
 Elnathan Allen Descendants - pafg05.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Richarda married Thomas Haydock REIBEY son of Thomas REIBEY and Molly HAYDOCK.
Thomas was born on 6 Jan 1796 in Sydney Colony of New South Wales.
Thomas married Catherine MacDonald KYLE on 20 Oct 1842 in Portsmouth Hampshire England.
www.airgale.com.au /allen/pafg05.htm   (278 words)

  
 Sydney
In 1794 she marries Thomas Reibey, an entrepreneurial free settler.
Mary Reibey's remarkable life inspires literature such as Catherine Gaskin's novel Sara Dane (1955) and is recounted by her biographer Nance Irvine, Mary Reibey: Molly Incognita (1982).
Reibey's letters, which are held in the Mitchell Library, Sydney were edited and published by Irvine in Dear Cousin: The Reibey Letters (1992).
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 Biography / Australia / Mary Reibey
Thomas Reibey's business undertakings prospered, enabling him in 1804 to build a substantial stone residence on a further grant of land near Macquarie Place.
She was no stranger to this task, having managed her husband's affairs during his frequent absences from Sydney.
Now a woman of considerable wealth, Mary Reibey continued to expand her business interests.
www.polymernotes.org /biographies/AUS_bio_reibey.htm   (395 words)

  
 York Mansions - Local Attractions - Entally House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The most historic of the National Trust houses, it was thought to have been built in 1819 by Thomas Haydock Reibey, the eldest son of Mary and Thomas Reibey of Sydney.
Entally House (named after a suburb in Calcutta, India) was described in a press article of 1883 as "more designed for comfort than as a model for the exposition of any particular canons of architecture".
Mr Reibey's library was reported to be "perhaps the most extensive one in the colony".
www.yorkmansions.com.au /Attractions/entally_house.htm   (170 words)

  
 The Reiby Brothers
Thomas was given land for a farm on the Hawkesbury River, and he also became a shipping merchant.
Thomas spent £600 on his house at “Entally”, built on the crest of a hill overlooking the South Esk River and the village of Hadspen.
Thomas died in 1842, but not before he had developed “Entally” into a rich estate, the income from which would enable his sons, also named Thomas and James, to live the life of gentlemen.
www.elaunceston.com /launcestonhistory/2005/reibey.htm   (680 words)

  
 Thomas Wentworth Wills - pafg03.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The younger sons of Thomas and Mary Ann Mellard (de facto) Frederick and Charles died in infancy.
Thomas Wentworth Antill was born on 24 Nov 1830.
Thomas married Sarah Theresa Barbor in 1867 in Church of England, Castlemaine, Victoria.
users.tpg.com.au /sharenet/fam/liza-edward/pafg03.htm   (1766 words)

  
 Collegiate : Reibey House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Born in 1777, Mary Reibey was transported at thirteen for stealing a horse.
At seventeen she married Thomas Reibey, an Irish officer she had met on the voyage from Britain.
Mary Reibey stands as a reminder, too, of the role of business in building this nation, and in particular, of the role of women in the world of commerce.
www.collegiate.tas.edu.au /houses/reibey.html   (356 words)

  
 Entally House, Australia
It was built about 1820 by Thomas Reibey whose mother had been transported to New South Wales as a convict at the age of 13 and had risen to become a successful businesswoman in Sydney.
Thomas Reibey's son became prime minister of Tasmania in 1866-7.
The house has an elegant Regency interior and valuable silver and is surrounded by beautiful grounds, with a greenhouse, stables, a coach house and a chapel.
www.planetware.com /launceston/entally-house-aus-tas-eh.htm   (126 words)

  
 Convict women in Port Jackson - three stories - Stories from Australia's Culture and Recreation Portal
In 1794 she married Thomas Reibey, a man who had worked with the British East India Company in Asia.
Thomas and his business partner Edward Wills owned three merchant ships by 1807 and were doing well importing merchandise into Sydney.
Mary Reibey is recognised as one of Australia's founders of organisations that continue to this day.
www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au /articles/portjacksonwomen   (1507 words)

  
 Visitor's Touring Guide to Tasmania, Australia | Hadspen
Centrepiece of Hadspen is Entally House (named after a suburb in Calcutta), which has been described as a window to the traditions of Tasmania’s historic past.
Entally House was built by Thomas Reibey II and his mother, Mary Reibey, who is featured on the Australian $20 note.
Thomas was the first Archdeacon of the Church of England at Launceston, but later left the church, and in 1876 became for a short while Premier of Tasmania.
www.tasmaniavisitorsguide.com.au /hadspen.htm   (202 words)

  
 Book Report on An Essay on wheather or not Mary Reiby should be on the note.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Mary Reibey, born Mary Haydock, may not be one of the most recognised Australian icons, but in her lifetime certain achieved many great accomplishments.
Had it not been for her life, which I believe gave other women belief in what they could attain, then perhaps the role of women in today's society would be a lot different.
It is for this reason as well as the others stated before, that I strongly believe that Mary Reibey deserves to be on the twenty-dollar note.
www.newessay.com /database/An_Essay_on_wheather_or_not_Ma-177239.html   (227 words)

  
 Cross Stitch Designs Charts For Sale
Built in 1819 by Thomas Haydock Reibey, the eldest son of Mary and Thomas Reibey of Sydney.
Mary Reibey became a respected Sydney businesswoman, member of society and founder of N.S.W. bank.
Thomas established the best library in the colony.
www.gbdesigns.com.au /chartsforsale.htm   (347 words)

  
 London Merchant Genealogies - 1786 and later   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It ought to be that Thomas, Judge James Pattle's father, as an East India Company director from 1787, had views on the opening up of the Pacific Ocean to British shipping by virtue of the establishment of a convict colony at Sydney.
Son of Father: Thomas Pattle, director, EICo, Mother: Sarah Hasleby, and his second spouse was Elizabeth Brooke (of the family becoming the Brookes of Sarawak, and wife1 Eliza Anne Frances Middleton wife1.
Abel II was Commr for Ltncy of London, Treasurer of St Thomas' Hospital, a director of London Assurance Co. and Union Bank.
www.danbyrnes.com.au /blackheath/geneal0.htm   (15396 words)

  
 Stories My Mother Should Have Told Me
Hill, named after Mary Reibey who had been a convict woman.
Mary Reibey was that she was a criminal.
Entally, which was built by Thomas, the son of Mary Reibey,
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 Entally Estate - Hadspen - Discover Tasmania
A lovely old house, named after a suburb of Calcutta, India, and built in 1819 for Thomas Reibey.
It is surrounded by superb gardens and grounds, in which there are a greenhouse, a chapel, a coach house and stables.
It seems that Reibey preferred long-lasting substance to short-term style: an article in an 1883 newspaper described the house as more designed for comfort than as a model for the exposition of any particular canons of architecture.
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 Deerubbin Presss - Regional & Local Travel Guides
Arrested as a horse thief her death sentence was commuted to transportation for seven years and she arrived in Sydney in 1792.
Two years later she married Thomas Reibey and they moved to the Hawkesbury, initially farming and shipping goods to Sydney and later developing a business in Sydney.
Widowed in 1811 Mary Reibey continued in business until 1855, becoming a successful and respected merchant in 19th century Sydney.
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 Coulson v Reibey [1825] NSWSupC 24 (13 June 1825)
Coulson v Reibey [1825] NSWSupC 24 (13 June 1825)
This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover the value of certain goods, specially entrusted by the plaintiff to the defendant.
The report of 20 October gives a summary of the parties' arguments, but not the judgment.
www.austlii.edu.au /au/other/NSWSupC/1825/24.html   (614 words)

  
 podir-1893   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Clarke, Ellis - Railway Coffee Palace, Reibey St.
Horsham, Thomas A. carpenter - Main Rd, W.U. Horsham, Thomas A. (Frith and Horsham)
Railway Coffee Palace - Reibey St. - E. Clarke mgr.
www.leven.tassie.net.au /ULHM/PODirectories/pod1893.htm   (568 words)

  
 Dear cousin: the Reibey letters: 22 letters of Mary Reibey, her children and their descendants 1792-1901
Mary Reibey’s story Dear Cousin is a spectacular Australian ‘rags-to-riches’ tale which even after 200 years still enthrals those who read it.Mary Haydock, as she was then, arrived in Sydney as a convicted criminal in October 1792, having been sentenced to transportation for horse stealing at the age of 13.
She married a free settler, Thomas Reibey, in 1794, who on his untimely death in 1811 left his wife with seven children and his diverse business interests.
With such success did she pursue these interests that within five years she was reputed to be worth 20,000 pounds.
www.familyhistorybookshop.org.au /prod1561.htm   (155 words)

  
 Colonial Secretary Index, 1788-1825 - Reibey, Jane to Reid, James (1825)
Re permission for Thomas Butler to proceed to Port Dalrymple (Reel 6005; 4/3497 p.272)
Signature in recommendation of Thomas William Middleton's memorial re retaining the situation of Inspector of Cattle (Reel 6062; 4/1782 p.48c)
Master, "Governor Macquarie"; son of Thomas and Mary
www.records.nsw.gov.au /indexes/colsec/r/F47c_ra-rh-15.htm   (2238 words)

  
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1794 heiratete sie Thomas Raby, der auch die Nachnamen Raiby, Reiby und Reibey benutzte, und gründete mit ihm beträchtliche Unternehmen.
Als Thomas Reibey im April 1811 starb übernahm Mary die alleinige Verantwortung für 7 Kinder und die Führung der zahlreichen Unternehmen, die sie noch weiter ausbaute.
Zu Lebzeiten erntete sie in der emanzipierten Kolonie New South Wales den Ruf einer schlauen und meist erfolgreichen Geschäftsfrau und erwarb sich großen Respekt für ihre barmherzigen Unternehmungen und ihre Unterstützung der Kirche und der Bildung.
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 Hadspen, Tasmania, Australia, Jasons Travel Channel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The centrepiece of Hadspen is Entally House, which has been described as a window to Tasmania's past.
The most historic of Tasmania's National Trust houses, it was built in 1819 by Thomas Reibey, who was in 1876 for a brief time the Premier of Tasmania.
The Reibey family had shipping interests that brought them to Tasmania as early as 1816, and Thomas' mother Mary is pictured on the Australian $20 note.
www.jasons.com /000628,AUS,TAS,LAUNCESTON,HADSPEN,PG,1,0.MEL   (388 words)

  
 Australian states
1824) 1 Dec 1821 - 1 Dec 1825 Sir Thomas Macdougall Brisbane (b.
1947) 1 Jun 1915 - 22 Oct 1919 Thomas Joseph Ryan ALP (b.
1897) 20 Jul 1876 - 9 Aug 1877 Thomas Reibey (b.
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