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Mary HAYDOCK (1777 - 1855)

convict, general merchant, landowner, publican, sealer, shipowner, trader, benefactor

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
Thomas Haydock REIBEY (1796 - 1842) James Haydock REIBEY (1798 - 1843) George Haydock REIBEY (1801 - 1823) Celia Eliza REIBEY (1802 - 1823) Eliza REIBEY (1805 - 1870) Jane Penelope REIBEY (1807 - 1854) Elizabeth Ann REIBEY (1810 - 1870)	Mary HAYDOCK (1777 - 1855) + Thomas REIBEY (1775 - 1811)

Pic 4. Inscription Sacred to the Memory of Mr THOMAS REIBEY Who Departed this life on the 5 of May 1811 Aged 36 Years Also Mrs Celia Wills, wife of Mr Thomas Wills Eldest Daughter of the Above M THO REIBEY Who Departed this life on the 28 Sept 1823 Also ALICE WILLS Infant Daughter of the above Who departed this life April the 11th 1824 Aged 11 months & 5 days Also of MARY, Widow of the above Mr THOMAS REIBEY Born 12th May 1777 Died 30th May 1855 "I heard a voice from Heaven, saying unto me, Write From henceforth blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, even so saith the Spirit for they rest from their labours."

b. 12 Mar 1777 at Bury, Lancashire, England

m. 07 Sep 1794 Thomas REIBEY (1775 - 1811) at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

d. 30 May 1855 at Newtown, New South Wales, Australia aged 78

Near Relatives of Mary HAYDOCK (1777 - 1855)
Relationship	Person	Born	Birth Place	Died	Death Place	Age
Self	Mary HAYDOCK	12 Mar 1777	Bury, Lancashire, England	30 May 1855	Newtown, New South Wales, Australia	78
Husband	Thomas REIBEY	1775		05 May 1811	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	36
Son	Thomas Haydock REIBEY	06 May 1796	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	02 Oct 1842	Tasmania, Australia	46
Son	James Haydock REIBEY	02 Oct 1798	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	11 Sep 1843	Launceston, Tasmania, Australia	44
Son	George Haydock REIBEY	02 Feb 1801	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	26 Oct 1823	Tasmania, Australia	22
Daughter	Celia Eliza REIBEY	01 Feb 1802	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	28 Sep 1823	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	21
Daughter	Eliza REIBEY	16 May 1805	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	25 Dec 1870	Launceston, Tasmania, Australia	65
Daughter	Jane Penelope REIBEY	14 Dec 1807	Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia	09 Oct 1854	Launceston, Tasmania, Australia	46
Daughter	Elizabeth Ann REIBEY	08 Mar 1810	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	19 Apr 1870	Paddington, London, England	60
Daughter in Law	Ricarda ALLEN	1798		1888		90
Daughter in Law	Rebecca DEVINE	1794		1854		60
Son in Law	Thomas Spencer WILLS	05 Aug 1800		29 Jul 1872	Kew, Victoria, Australia	71
Son in Law	Thomas THOMSON	14 Aug 1794	Dysart, Fife, Scotland	11 Jul 1844	Launceston, Tasmania, Australia	49
Son in Law	John ATKINSON	1796		1893		97
Son in Law	Joseph Long INNES	1806		1885		79
Granddaughter	Alice WILLS	06 May 1823		14 Apr 1824		0

Events in Mary HAYDOCK (1777 - 1855)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
12 Mar 1777		Mary HAYDOCK was born	Bury, Lancashire, England
Oct 1792	15	Immigration	Sydney Cove, New South Wales, Australia	per 'Royal Admiral'
07 Sep 1794	17	Married Thomas REIBEY (aged 19)	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia		76
06 May 1796	19	Birth of son Thomas Haydock REIBEY	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia		76
02 Oct 1798	21	Birth of son James Haydock REIBEY	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
02 Feb 1801	23	Birth of son George Haydock REIBEY	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia		76
01 Feb 1802	24	Birth of daughter Celia Eliza REIBEY	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia		36
16 May 1805	28	Birth of daughter Eliza REIBEY	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia		76
14 Dec 1807	30	Birth of daughter Jane Penelope REIBEY	Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia		76
08 Mar 1810	32	Birth of daughter Elizabeth Ann REIBEY	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia		76
05 May 1811	34	Death of husband Thomas REIBEY (aged 36)	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia		76
28 Sep 1823	46	Death of daughter Celia Eliza REIBEY (aged 21)	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia		36
26 Oct 1823	46	Death of son George Haydock REIBEY (aged 22)	Tasmania, Australia		76
02 Oct 1842	65	Death of son Thomas Haydock REIBEY (aged 46)	Tasmania, Australia		76
11 Sep 1843	66	Death of son James Haydock REIBEY (aged 44)	Launceston, Tasmania, Australia		76
09 Oct 1854	77	Death of daughter Jane Penelope REIBEY (aged 46)	Launceston, Tasmania, Australia		76
30 May 1855	78	Mary HAYDOCK died	Newtown, New South Wales, Australia

Personal Notes:

Australian Dictionary of Biography https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/reibey-mary-2583 Mary Reibey (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. Thomas Reibey (1769-1811) appears to have been the first free settler outside the military ring to trade. The first years of his married life were apparently spent on the Hawkesbury, where he acquired property and was engaged in the grain-carrying business; later he established himself near the waterside in what is now Macquarie Place and turned his former association with the East India Co. to advantage by importing general merchandise. He named his trading establishment Entally House, after a suburb in Calcutta. The scope of his business activity was indicated when in 1801 he became indebted to Robert Campbell senior for the sum of £160 10s., and in October 1803 he mortgaged to Campbell three Hawkesbury farms totalling 260 acres (105 ha), their buildings, crops, livestock, and boats, along with certain other property and buildings in Sydney, for a further credit advance of £150 to enable him to carry on his business. By 1803 he also owned three small boats, James, Edwin and Raven, and traded to the Hunter and Hawkesbury Rivers in coals, cedar and wheat. He entered into partnership with Edward Wills (1778?-1811) and was engaged in sealing in Bass Strait in 1805; in 1807 they bought the schooner Mercury for trade with the Pacific Islands. During the great Hawkesbury River floods of 1806 Reibey did heroic work and saved the lives of several people. He was appointed a pilot in Port Jackson in March 1809 which suggests that he thought of giving up the sea, but in October he undertook his last voyage to China and India made necessary by losses suffered in New South Wales. He left Sydney in the Lady Barlow and returned a year later in the Mary and Sally. He died at Entally House on 5 April 1811 after a lingering illness, the origin of which was attributed to a coup de soleil which he suffered while in India. Reibey appears to have been an astute trader and kept apart from the squabbles of Governor William Bligh and his antagonists. On the death of her husband and his partner Edward Wills a month later, Mary Reibey was left with seven children and in entire control of numerous business concerns. She was a hotel-keeper, and already had had experience in assisting her husband and managing his interests when he was absent on voyages; she soon became a very prosperous member of the group trained in the tough school of competition with American, Chinese and Indian traders. Unlike many of her contemporaries she was not litigious but proved capable of conducting her business affairs with the utmost vigour. Perhaps she preferred her own more direct methods to enforce payment of debts, for in May 1817 she was found guilty of an assault upon one of her debtors, John Walker, at Windsor. In the eyes of her contemporaries Mary Reibey gradually rose to respectability and affluence in the new emancipist society. She was a favourite of Governor Lachlan Macquarie. She opened a new warehouse in George Street in 1812 and continued to manage her husband's ships and extended her operations by buying the John Palmer and in 1817 the brig Governor Macquarie. In 1816 she advertised for sale all her property, which included seven farms on the Hawkesbury, with the intention of returning to England. She was then said to be worth about £20,000, and by 1820 held 1000 acres (405 ha) of land, half of them by grant. In March 1820 in the Admiral Cockburn she took her daughters Celia and Eliza to England, and in Lancashire amid the scenes of her childhood she was received with interest and admiration. After her return to Sydney next year with her daughters, her affairs continued to flourish. She made extensive investments in city property. By 1828 she had erected 'many elegant and substantial buildings in Macquarie Place, near the King's Wharf, and in the centre of George Street', and was turning her attention to Castlereagh Street. She gradually retired from active business and lived on her investments. Mary Reibey, persevering and enterprising in everything she undertook, became legendary in the colony as the successful businesswoman. She took an interest in the church, education and works of charity. In 1825 she was appointed one of the governors of the Free Grammar School. Later Bishop William Grant Broughton commended her exertions in the cause of religion generally and of the Church of England in particular. On her retirement she lived in the suburb of Newtown until her death on 30 May 1855. The peace of her later years was disturbed a little by the publication in 1845 of Rev. Richard Cobbold's book on Margaret Catchpole, which led to understandable rumours that she was the heroine of Cobbold's colourful story. Thomas and Mary Reibey's three sons, who founded the Tasmanian branch of the family, all followed their parents' lead in mercantile and shipping ventures. The eldest son, Thomas (b. 6 May 1796), went to sea with his father and in November 1822 became a partner of his brother as a general merchant and commission agent at Launceston, trading under the name of Thomas Reibey & Co. He died at his estate, Entally, Hadspen, near Launceston, on 3 October 1842. The second son, James Haydock (b.2 October 1798), was apprenticed in 1809 to John Campbell Burton, a merchant and agent from Bengal. In the 1820s he was trading in partnership with his elder brother and engaged in sealing and other coastal shipping activities. He was one of the first directors of the Derwent and Cornwall Banks in Van Diemen's Land in 1828. He originally settled near Hobart Town but later bought a property adjoining Entally and died in 1843. Of the four Reibey daughters, the youngest, Elizabeth Ann (b.1810), married Captain Joseph Long Innes. The surname was variously spelt as Raby, Rabey, and Reiby, but after the death of Thomas Reibey in 1811 Reibey was usually adopted by the family. People on Banknotes https://banknotes.rba.gov.au/australias-banknotes/people-on-the-banknotes/mary-reibey/ Mary Reibey (1777–1855) Portrait of Mary Reiby. Pioneer businesswoman with interests in shipping and property. In the emancipist society of New South Wales, Mary Reibey had gained respect for her charitable works and her interest in the church and education. An enterprising and determined person of strong personality, during her lifetime Reibey earned a reputation as an astute and most successful businesswoman in the colony of New South Wales. 1777: Mary Reibey, baptised Molly Haydock, was born on 12 May 1777 in Bury, Lancashire, England. 1779: Following the death of both her parents by 1779, she was raised by her grandmother, before being sent into service. 1791: She ran away and was arrested for horse stealing in August 1791. 1792: Sentenced to seven years' transportation, she arrived in New South Wales on the Royal Admiral in October 1792. 1794: On 7 September 1794, 17-year-old Mary married Thomas Raby, a junior officer on the store ship Britannia. Raby also used the surnames Raiby, Reiby and Reibey interchangeably, but the family adopted the spelling Reibey in later years. Thomas Reibey was granted land on the Hawkesbury River, where the couple lived and farmed following their marriage. He commenced a cargo business along the Hawkesbury River to Sydney, and later moved to Sydney. He acquired several farms on the Hawkesbury River. 1804: Thomas Reibey's business undertakings prospered, enabling him to build a substantial stone residence on a further grant of land near Macquarie Place. 1807: The schooner Mercury was bought for trade with the Pacific Islands. 1811: When her husband died, Reibey assumed sole responsibility for the care of their seven children and control of his numerous business enterprises. 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, Reibey continued to expand her businesses. 1812: She opened a new warehouse in George Street. 1817: She extended her shipping operations with the purchase of further vessels. 1825: She was appointed one of the Governors of the Free Grammar School. 1828: By 1828, when she gradually retired from active involvement in commerce, she had acquired extensive property holdings in the city. On her retirement, she built a house at Newtown, Sydney, where she lived until her death. 1855: Reibey died on 30 May 1855. Five of her seven children had predeceased her. On 7 September 1794, 17-year-old Mary married Thomas Reibey, after he had proposed to her several times; she finally agreed to marry the junior officer on the store ship Britannia. Reibey also used the surnames Raiby, Reiby and Reibey interchangeably, but the family adopted the spelling Reibey in later years. Thomas Reibey was granted land on the Hawkesbury River, where he and Mary lived and farmed following their marriage. They built a farmhouse called Reibycroft, which is now listed on the Register of the National Estate.[4] Thomas Reibey commenced a cargo business along the Hawkesbury River to Sydney and later moved to Sydney. 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. He acquired several farms on the Hawkesbury River and traded in coal, cedar, furs and skins. He entered into a partnership with Edward Wills, and trading activities were extended to the Bass Strait, the Pacific Islands and, from 1809 to China and India.[2] When Thomas Reibey died on 5 April 1811, Mary assumed sole responsibility for the care of seven children and the control of numerous business enterprises. 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 by her husband's businesses, Reibey continued to expand her business interests. In 1812 she opened a new warehouse in George Street and in 1817 extended her shipping operations with the purchase of further vessels. In the same year, the Bank of New South Wales was founded in her house in Macquarie Place.[5][6] By 1828, when she gradually retired from active involvement in commerce, she had acquired extensive property holdings in the city. Like many others, however, she was on occasions somewhat economical with the truth. In March 1820 she had returned to England with her daughters to visit her native village, and came back to Sydney the next year.[2] So in the 1828 census, when asked to describe her condition, she declared that she "came free in 1821". In the emancipist Society of New South Wales, she gained respect for her charitable works and her interest in the church and education. She was appointed one of the Governors of the Free Grammar School in 1825. Reibey built a cottage in the suburb of Hunters Hill, New South Wales circa 1836, where she lived for some time. The cottage, situated on the shores of the Lane Cove River, was later acquired by the Joubert brothers, who enlarged it. It is now known as Fig Tree House and is listed on the (now defunct) Register of the National Estate.[4] On her retirement, she built a house at Newtown, Sydney, where she lived until her death on 30 May 1855 from pneumonia. She was 78 years old.[7] An enterprising and determined person of strong personality, during her lifetime Reibey earned a reputation as an astute and successful business woman in the colony of New South Wales. She is featured on the obverse of Australian twenty-dollar notes printed since 1994.[8] The oldest son of Mary and Thomas Reibey, Thomas Haydock Reibey II (1821-1912: clergyman, farmer and politician), later became the Premier of Tasmania from 1876 to 1877. The Entally Estate was established in 1819 by Thomas Haydock Reibey II in Hadspen, Tasmania. The original house and some outbuildings are now a historic house on the outskirts of Launceston, in northern Tasmania. Mary, the matriarch of the family, had been transported to Australia in 1790 for the crime of horse stealing, then aged 14. She would later marry a junior officer of the East India Company, Thomas Reibey (senior), who established the Entally name as a successful trading company that owned a number of vessels running coal up the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales. Following her husband's death in 1811, Mary became one of the richest and most successful businesswomen in Australia. She then obtained the grant of 300 acres of land upon which Thomas II was to settle and build the homestead and outbuildings. ∼ Mary Reibey née Haydock was an English-born merchant, shipowner and trader who was transported to Australia as a convict. After gaining her freedom, she was viewed by her contemporaries as a community role model and became legendary as a successful businesswoman in the colony. Contributor: Dog Rose (50273624) ∼ Ex convict, business woman. Features on Australia $20 note Inscription Sacred to the Memory of Mr THOMAS REIBEY Who Departed this life on the 5 of May 1811 Aged 36 Years Also Mrs Celia Wills, wife of Mr Thomas Wills Eldest Daughter of the Above M THO REIBEY Who Departed this life on the 28 Sept 1823 Also ALICE WILLS Infant Daughter of the above Who departed this life April the 11th 1824 Aged 11 months & 5 days Also of MARY, Widow of the above Mr THOMAS REIBEY Born 12th May 1777 Died 30th May 1855 "I heard a voice from Heaven, saying unto me, Write From henceforth blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, even so saith the Spirit for they rest from their labours."

Source References:

76. Type: Web Page, Abbr: Find a Grave, Title: Find A Grave, Locn: https://www.findagrave.com/

- Reference = https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/230635860/mary-reibey (Name, Notes)

- Notes: On 7 September 1794, 17-year-old Mary married Thomas Reibey, after he had proposed to her several times; she finally agreed to marry the junior officer on the store ship Britannia. Reibey also used the surnames Raiby, Reiby and Reibey interchangeably, but the family adopted the spelling Reibey in later years. Thomas Reibey was granted land on the Hawkesbury River, where he and Mary lived and farmed following their marriage. They built a farmhouse called Reibycroft, which is now listed on the Register of the National Estate.[4] Thomas Reibey commenced a cargo business along the Hawkesbury River to Sydney and later moved to Sydney. 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. He acquired several farms on the Hawkesbury River and traded in coal, cedar, furs and skins. He entered into a partnership with Edward Wills, and trading activities were extended to the Bass Strait, the Pacific Islands and, from 1809 to China and India.[2] When Thomas Reibey died on 5 April 1811, Mary assumed sole responsibility for the care of seven children and the control of numerous business enterprises. 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 by her husband's businesses, Reibey continued to expand her business interests. In 1812 she opened a new warehouse in George Street and in 1817 extended her shipping operations with the purchase of further vessels. In the same year, the Bank of New South Wales was founded in her house in Macquarie Place.[5][6] By 1828, when she gradually retired from active involvement in commerce, she had acquired extensive property holdings in the city. Like many others, however, she was on occasions somewhat economical with the truth. In March 1820 she had returned to England with her daughters to visit her native village, and came back to Sydney the next year.[2] So in the 1828 census, when asked to describe her condition, she declared that she "came free in 1821". In the emancipist Society of New South Wales, she gained respect for her charitable works and her interest in the church and education. She was appointed one of the Governors of the Free Grammar School in 1825. Reibey built a cottage in the suburb of Hunters Hill, New South Wales circa 1836, where she lived for some time. The cottage, situated on the shores of the Lane Cove River, was later acquired by the Joubert brothers, who enlarged it. It is now known as Fig Tree House and is listed on the (now defunct) Register of the National Estate.[4] On her retirement, she built a house at Newtown, Sydney, where she lived until her death on 30 May 1855 from pneumonia. She was 78 years old.[7] An enterprising and determined person of strong personality, during her lifetime Reibey earned a reputation as an astute and successful business woman in the colony of New South Wales. She is featured on the obverse of Australian twenty-dollar notes printed since 1994.[8] The oldest son of Mary and Thomas Reibey, Thomas Haydock Reibey II (1821-1912: clergyman, farmer and politician), later became the Premier of Tasmania from 1876 to 1877. The Entally Estate was established in 1819 by Thomas Haydock Reibey II in Hadspen, Tasmania. The original house and some outbuildings are now a historic house on the outskirts of Launceston, in northern Tasmania. Mary, the matriarch of the family, had been transported to Australia in 1790 for the crime of horse stealing, then aged 14. She would later marry a junior officer of the East India Company, Thomas Reibey (senior), who established the Entally name as a successful trading company that owned a number of vessels running coal up the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales. Following her husband's death in 1811, Mary became one of the richest and most successful businesswomen in Australia. She then obtained the grant of 300 acres of land upon which Thomas II was to settle and build the homestead and outbuildings. ∼ Mary Reibey née Haydock was an English-born merchant, shipowner and trader who was transported to Australia as a convict. After gaining her freedom, she was viewed by her contemporaries as a community role model and became legendary as a successful businesswoman in the colony. Contributor: Dog Rose (50273624) ∼ Ex convict, business woman. Features on Australia $20 note Inscription Sacred to the Memory of Mr THOMAS REIBEY Who Departed this life on the 5 of May 1811 Aged 36 Years Also Mrs Celia Wills, wife of Mr Thomas Wills Eldest Daughter of the Above M THO REIBEY Who Departed this life on the 28 Sept 1823 Also ALICE WILLS Infant Daughter of the above Who departed this life April the 11th 1824 Aged 11 months & 5 days Also of MARY, Widow of the above Mr THOMAS REIBEY Born 12th May 1777 Died 30th May 1855 "I heard a voice from Heaven, saying unto me, Write From henceforth blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, even so saith the Spirit for they rest from their labours."

- Reference = https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/230635860/mary-reibey (Marriage)

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