Reibey family correspondence
Reibey family correspondence
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Date
1825-1842
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SAFE/MLMSS 4200 (Safe 1/118)
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0.12 metres of textual material (3 roll up documents in 1 folder) - 36.7 x 26.5 cm - manuscript
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Microfilm : CY 1113, frames 1-28 (MLMSS 4200, filed at Safe 1/118)
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Contents
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 J...
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Reibey family correspondence
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Notes
General note
Transcriptions of the four letters to David Hope can be found in 'Dear Cousin: the Reibey Letters', compiled by Nance Irvine, 1992
Description source
Information upgraded from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (5-549 C) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by Oliver William Powlett in 1983
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...
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SAFE/MLMSS 4200 (Safe 1/118)
Record Identifier
16AJmoon
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/16AJmoon
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449228
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