• Title
  Mary Reibey - Papers concerning her properties in the Hawkesbury River district, approximately 1820-1853
• Creator
  Mary Reibey, 1777-1855
• Call number
  SAFE/MLMSS 7684 (Safe 1/255)
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  approximately 1820-1853
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  449067
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : CY 4644, frames 13-43 (MLMSS 7684, filed at Safe 1/255)
  
• Physical Description
  0.04 metres of textual material (1 box) - 21.6 x 28.0 cm - manuscript
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Mary Reibey (nee Haydock) arrived in Sydney from England in 1792 having been sentenced to seven years transportation for theft. In 1794 she married Thomas Reibey, a merchant and landholder. After his death in 1811 she became a prosperous businesswoman in her own right with interests in trading vessels and property. She died in 1855, a wealthy and respected member of colonial society.
• Scope and Content
  A collection of documents relating mainly to Mary Reibey's purchase in 1829 of lands from Richard Keefe and subsequent disputes over a portion of Old Singleton's Farm and over the boundaries of Raville Farm.
  19 June 1822; Note and receipts for quit rents from Surveyor-General's Office to Mary Reibey for properties in the districts of Airds and Mulgrave Place (Call No.: MLMSS 7684/1)
  ca. 1820s; Manuscript abstract of grant from Governor John Hunter to William Singleton, 1 June 1797, of 90 acres on the Hawkesbury River known as Singleton's Farm. Document watermarked 'C. Wilmott 1819'. (Call No.: MLMSS 7684/2)
  ca. 1820s; Manuscript abstract of title deeds of Reavill Farm showing land dealings from 1801 to 1814. The property is spelt Reavill on these documents, but was later spelt Raville by Reibey (Call No.: MLMSS 7684/3)
  undated; Plan of land adjacent to Raville Farm (Call No.: MLMSS 7684/4)
  ca. 1820s; Letter from John Oxley to William Walker concerning the boundaries of Reibey's Raville (here spelt Reavil) Farm. The letter bears Oxley's free frank postal mark. (Call No.: MLMSS 7684/5)
  ca. 1820s; copy of the above letter (Call No.: MLMSS 7684/6)
  4 Feb. 1829; Contract for sale of land from Richard Keefe, of Wilberforce, to Mary Reibey, comprising 120 acres 'situate in the district of Currijong' and 20 acres at Singleton's Farm (Call No.: MLMSS 7684/7)
  copy of a letter, 7 Feb. 1829, from Mary Reibey to Mr Doyle concerning the deeds of Keefe's Currency Creek Farm. (Call No.: MLMSS 7684/8)
  27 July 1831; Letter from Mary Reibey to James Staples concerning her purchase of Singleton's Farm. In Mary Reibey's hand. (Call No.: MLMSS 7684/9)
  20 Aug. 1831; Invoice from Edward Knapp to Mary Reibey for surveying Raville Farm and Singleton's Farm (Call No.: MLMSS 7684/10)
  21 Dec. 1831; Lease agreement from Mary Reibey to James Hapted for Singleton's Farm. In Mary Reibey's hand. (Call No.: MLMSS 7684/11)
  1832; Manuscript file copies of 3 documents concerning Raville Farm: 1. copy of a letter from James Atkinson to Francis Beddek, solicitor, concerning the dispute with Staples; 2. copy of a letter from Mary Reibey to John Maskey, 3 Oct. 1832, asking him to allow Staples to pass through the property; 3. copy of a statement by Patrick Parland, 28 May 1832, concerning the boundaries of Raville Farm (Call No.: MLMSS 7684/12)
  17 Sept. 1837; Letter from John Maskey, Wilberforce, to Mary Reibey concerning farming matters and referring to her ongoing dispute with James Staples over a portion of Singleton's Farm (Call No.: MLMSS 7684/13)
  5 Feb. 1840; copy of a letter from Mary Reibey to Thomas Thomas confirming the continuance of his lease; annotated 'extracted from Mrs Reibey's Day Book Feby. 5th 1840' (Call No.: MLMSS 7684/14)
  22 Dec. 1853; copy of receipt from Mary Reibey to David Goodson; annotated 'extracted from Mrs Reibey's Day Book Decr. 22nd 1853' (Call No.: MLMSS 7684/15)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Beddek, Francis
  Keefe, Richard
  Maskey, John
  Oxley, John, 1783-1828
  Staples, James
  
• Subject
  Businesswomen--New South Wales.
  Farms--New South Wales--Hawkesbury River Region.
  
• Place
  Hawkesbury River Region (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE19691973

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