• Title
  Reibey family correspondence
• Creator
  Reibey family
• Call number
  SAFE/MLMSS 4200 (Safe 1/118)
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1825-1842
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  449228
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : CY 1113, frames 1-28 (MLMSS 4200, filed at Safe 1/118)
  
• Physical Description
  0.12 metres of textual material (3 roll up documents in 1 folder) - 36.7 x 26.5 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.
  Thomas Reiby, 1796-1842, was the eldest son of Mary Reibey, and James Haydock Reibey, 1798-1843, was her second son. Both were merchants and traders. Thomas had an estate, Entally, near Launceston, Tasmania and from 1822 he worked in partnership with James who settled nearby. David Hope, her cousin in Glasgow, had business dealings with her and her family. John Atkinson was her son-in-law, being the husband of her daughter Jane Penelope
• Scope and Content
  Series 01: David Hope, 1825-1832
  1. Letter from Mary Reibey, [Sydney] 9 February 1825, mainly concerning business affairs. 2. Letter from James Haydock Reibey, Launceston, 10 August 1829, concerning many matters including the murder of his uncle Foster, the imprisonment of Thomas Thomson, his brother-in-law, and the loss of James Reibey's and John Atkinson's cutter 'Eclipse' which was stolen by convicts in Newcastle Harbour.
  3. Letter from James Haydock Reibey, Launceston, 18 April 1832; a private letter on the same sheet as a business letter addressed to Messrs Fleming & Hope, Glasgow. The letter gives family news and James Reibey's opinions of family members including his disapproval of the conduct of Thomas Thomson.
  4. Letter from John Atkinson, Sydney, 8 Sept. 1830, concerning claims for the loss of the 'Eclipse'.
  
  Series 02: John Atkinson, 1842
  Letter received from Thomas Reibey, Entally, 28 July 1842, relaying advice received from Captain Forster on the manner in which Atkinson should apply for the position of official assignee.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright:
  Approval for publication required: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Information upgraded from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (5-549 C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
• General note
  
  Transcriptions of the four letters to David Hope can be found in 'Dear Cousin: the Reibey Letters', compiled by Nance Irvine, 1992
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Atkinson, John, 1795-1893
  Hope, David, 1786-1857
  Reibey, James Haydock, 1798-1844
  Reibey, Mary, 1777-1855
  Reibey, Thomas Haydock, 1796-1842
  
• Name
  Thomson, Thomas
  Eclipse (cutter)
  
• Subject
  Convicts--New South Wales--Correspondence.
  New South Wales--Commerce--Great Britain.
  Tasmania--History--1803-1851.
  Sydney (N.S.W.)--Commerce--1788-1851.
  Tasmania--Commerce.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE19691720

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