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Reibey, Mary (1777-1855)

Also known as
Burrow, JamesHaydock, MaryRabey, MaryRaby, MaryReiby, Mary
Occupation
convict; general merchant; landowner; publican; shipowner; trader
Persistent Identifier
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-610963

Biographies

Australian Dictionary of Biography Online

REIBEY, MARY (1777-1855), née Haydock, businesswoman and trader, was born on 12 May 1777 in Bury, Lancashire, England. She was convicted of horse stealing at Stafford on 21 July 1790 and sentenced to be transported for seven years. When arrested she was dressed as a boy and went under the name of James Burrow, but at her trial her identity was disclosed. The whole episode which resulted in her conviction as a felon at the age of 13 and transportation to New South Wales was probably no more than a high-spirited escapade attributable to lack of parental control, for her parents were dead and she lived with her grandmother. She arrived in Sydney in the Royal Admiral in October 1792 and was assigned as a nursemaid in the household of Major Francis Grose. On 7 September 1794 she married in Sydney Thomas Reibey, a young Irishman in the service of the East India Co., whom she had met in the transport and who had returned to Sydney in the Britannia that year.

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Australian Women's Register

Mary Reibey was orphaned as a girl and arrested in 1791 after disguising herself as a male, James Burrow, and attempting to sell a stolen horse. As James Burrow she was sentenced to seven years transportation and arrived in the colony on 7 October 1792. Through marriage to her husband Thomas Raby, with whom she had seven children, Mary grew wealthy. She continued to accumulate property after his death, though the family fortune was strained by the misadventures of two of her sons-in-law.

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Resources for Mary Reibey

Selected resources (5)

Australian Dictionary of Biography Online

  1. 'Reibey, Mary (1777 - 1855)' - Australian Dictionary of Biography
    G. P. Walsh
    [1967]
    Published: Melbourne University Press
    Series: Volume 2
    pp 373-374.

Australian Women's Register

  1. Dear Cousin: The Reibey Letters: Twenty-two letters of Mary Reibey, her children and their descendents, 1792-1901
    Irvine, Nance
    [1995]
    Published: Hale & Iremonger, Sydney
  2. Mary Reibey - Molly Incognita: A Biography of Mary Reibey
    Irvine, Nance
    [1982]
    Published: Library of Australian History, Sydney
  3. Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
    Australian National University
    [2006]
  4. 200 Australian Women: A Redress Anthology
    Radi, Heather
    [1988]
    Published: Women's Redress Press, Sydney
  5. Reibey, Mary (1777-1855)
    Walsh, G. P.
    [2006]
    Published: Australian National University

Resources About Mary Reibey (15)

  1. Dear cousin the Reibey letters : twenty-two letters of Mary Reibey, her children and their descendants, 1792-1901 / edited and with commentary by Nance Irvine
    Reibey, Mary, 1777-1855
    [Book, Audio book : 1992-1997]
  2. Dear cousin : the Reibey letters : twenty two letters of the Reibey family 1792-1901 : being a collection including letters of Mary Reibey, her children and their descendants / edited and with a commentary by Nance Irvine
    [Book : 1992]
  3. Mary Reibey : from convict to first lady of trade / [by] Kathleen J. Pullen
    Pullen, Kathleen J
    [Book : 1975]
  4. Mary Reibey - Molly incognita : a biography of Mary Reibey 1777 to 1855, and her world / by Nancy [i.e. Nance] Irvine
    Irvine, Nance
    [Book : 1982-1987]
  5. Rogues and underdogs / Diana Chase and Valerie Krantz
    Chase, Diana
    [Book : 1995]
  6. [Biographical cuttings on Mary Reibey, businesswoman, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals]
    [Published : 1900-1990]
  7. Papers of the Reibey estate
    Reibey, Mary, 1777-1855
    [Unpublished : 1811-1909]
  8. An emancipist / Nance Donkin ; illustrated by Jane Robinson
    Donkin, Nance
    [Book : 1968]
  9. Mary Reibey - Molly Incognita : a biography of Mary Reibey (1777-1855) and her world / Nancy [i.e. Nance] Irvine
    Irvine, Nance
    [Book : 2001]
  10. Mary Reibey, Molly incognita a biography of Mary Reiby 1777 to 1855, and her world / [Nance Irvine]
    Irvine, Nance
    [Audio book : 1986]

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  1. Papers of the Reibey estate
    Reibey, Mary, 1777-1855
    [Unpublished : 1811-1909]
  2. [Biographical cuttings on Mary Reibey, businesswoman, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals]
    [Published : 1900-1990]
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    Sydney Church of England Cemetery Company
    [Unpublished : 1849]