Mary Reibey, baptised as Molly Haydock, lived a portion of her life as a convict from England then was transported to Australia. Her becoming a convict has impacted and changed her life for the better. Not many Australians are aware of the story and background of Mary Reibey, the lady who is on the Australian $20 note which has been imprinted ever since 1994. It is known that she has been on a journey that may of not had started positively but later on turned out better than she expected. She was able to hide the fact that she was a convict behind her popularity as a business woman and philanthropist. Mary Reibey’s journey into becoming a prosperous woman began with her being a convict from Lancashire, England. Mary was born on the 12th …show more content…
She had gained respect for her charitable works and her interest and her appeal towards the church and education. Her popularity and outstanding achievements in her work has resulted in her being welcomed into the governor’s social circle. She was then appointed as one of the governors for the Free Grammar school in 1825. Mary believed in an education for all children and did not want for anyone, especially her children to go through what she had gone through as a convict. Mary became persistent and determined to keep her children in a civilised position, keeping up her role as a mother. She did not want children to be in bad situations that would lead them to rebel against the authority and steal or do any other crimes. This belief led Mary to do the works of a humanitarian for those who were less fortunate than her. She began to participate in good works and charity donating to churches and helped kids get an education. On her retirement, Mary Reibey built a house in Newtown in the 1840s. She lived here until her death in 1855, aged 78 due to the illness of pneumonia in which she outlived five out of seven of her children. She was buried beside her husband Thomas, at the Devonshire St
When first analysing the situation that Mary Reibey had gotten herself into, you would initially think about the unfortunate position for such a young girl. Mary’s criminal life and sentencing was caused by an act of horse stealing. Her act of crime was taken action on and two years after her initial sentencing she arrived in Sydney. One of the main factors influencing the negative impact of the convict experience on Mary’s life is the long and strenuous voyage she had to face. Her trip to Sydney aboard the Royal Admiral was one full of harsh treatment, terrible food, filthy and unhygienic conditions and loneliness. In a letter that Mary wrote to her aunt Alice Hope, she spoke about
When they first got married Thomas Reibey was involved in the grain-carrying business, but then they later acquired properties and farms. Thomas Reibey with the help of Mary started to dabble in the arts of trade and Furs, skin, coal and cedar were the most important and popular items of trade, there trade grew as they started to trade with overseas countries such as China, India and other Pacific islands. Her family became very important in the industry of trade and they became very wealthy which she would never have had if she didn’t steal and horse and get transported over to Australia which is a very go impact that being a convict had on her because she never would have had this opportunity to become one of Australia’s most biggest entrepreneurs and business owner of Australia at the
In the 1800’s convicts and emancipists were shunned by the community because they were seen as filthy, treacherous and repulsive people. Because Mary was a convict her family as well as herself were belittled by society and lived a lonely lifestyle compared to many other families. Even though Mary was excluded from the society she was left with a great deal of free time as the
They had five kids together, but four died from gastric fever.The couple then moved to North East England. The couple had had three more children, who then “died”.Her husband then became a fireman. He later died of an intestinal disorder in January 1865. Mary then received insurance on her husband’s death from the British and Prudential Insurance office and Mary Ann collected a payout of £35 on his death. Soon after the death of her husband, Mary Ann moved to Seaham Harbour, County Durham, where she had a relationship with Joseph Nattrass. He was engaged to another woman and she left Seaham after his wedding. She then took a job as a nurse at an infirmary, where she met George Ward.They married and he then became sick with intestinal problems and died in October. A doctor became suspicious as he died suddenly. Once again, Mary Ann collected insurance money from her husband's
Mary Parsons was born in 1628 in Gloucestershire, England, after a while her family moved to Hartford, Connecticut. When she was eleven or twelve they settled in a town near Hartford, where she grew up and married Joseph Parsons a successful merchant in 1646.
In Camden she began attending school at the age of ten years old. At the age of Thirteen she was sent to a Madame Talvande`s French School for Young Ladies in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1836 she meets her husband James Chesnut Jr when he was on a visit with his niece. Over the years he showed love attractions with her. James Chesnut Jr is a Princeton University Graduate. Mary returned to Camden in 1838 when her when her dad died. James and Mary got married on April 23, 1840 at the age of seventeen and settled outside of Camden. (Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2015)
Mary was born on November 26,1832, in Oswego, New York. Asa child, Mary attended a local school run by her parents. Later, she continued her education at a seminary in Fulton, New York, but left there in 1852 to teach. Within two years, how ever, Mary had made up her mind to become a doctor instead, challenging society's belief that teaching was the only job for a woman. In New York she married a physician named Albert Miller, and
Mary I would say had a difficult childhood. She was born July 19th 1817 Mount Vernon, Ohio. Her Dad was a farmer, but her Mom died when Mary was 17 months old! So, because of her death her Dad sent her off to live with Mary’s grandparents. Well her grandparents died so she went to live with her Uncle, he was a farmer also. She was taught only the basics of school, yet she went to Oberlin College which
Mary MacKillop was born in Fitzroy, Melbourne on January the 15th 1842. She was the first child to Alexander MacKillop and Flora MacDonald. Mary was one child out of 8 and spent most of her childhood years looking after and acting like a second mother to her siblings. The MacKillop family were quite poor so at the young age of 14, Mary got herself a job as a governess and as teacher at a Portland school. All the money Mary earned went towards her families everyday living. While working as a governess, Mary met Father Julian Tension Woods. By the time Mary had reached the age of 15 she had decided that she wanted to be a nun. She also wanted to devote her life to the poor and less fortunate. So upon meeting Father Julian Tension Woods she
Many great minds during the Enlightenment era shaped the government of the U.S. today. These Enlightenment thinkers had thoughts on how people needed to be governed in order to prevent anarchy of the people. When the United States was just being created, the men who helped create the Declaration of Independence were influenced by ideas of these Enlightenment thinkers that lived hundreds of years before them. The United States new they need to provide of their people and for themselves but all at the same time, creating laws that allow for this control to exist.
The impact of the movement of peoples to Australia is evident in an examination of the life of Caroline Chisholm. She was born on the 30th of May 1808, in Northampton, England and was one of sixteen children. She was brought up as a Christian girl in the tradition of Evangelical philanthropy meaning she continued in life doing a lot of charitable work and was an extremely progressive 19th century humanitarian philanthropist. Her major passion in life was to promote immigration to Australia and particularly look after single, unsupported women arriving on the shores of Australia.
Mary Anderson was born in 1866. She grew up in Birmingham. She moved to Fresno California in 1993. She operated a cattle ranch and vineyard. She moved back to birmingham to care for her elderly aunt.
Mary Ellen Richmond had been influencing the casework practice since around 1880 (Montalvo, 1982). She was seen as the founder of the social work profession and professional education (Social Welfare History Project, 2011). Richmond was known for her abilities to organize communities, her development of case work and her ability to teach and speak about a large range of topics (Social Welfare History Project, 2011). Her focus was on children and families, which relates to my work and future goals. Mary was born in Belleville, Illinois to Henry and Lavinia Richmond (Social Welfare History Project, 2011).
Mary Mallon was a woman of Irish descent who came to the United States as an immigrant to start a new life in 1886. She worked as a cook in a house where wealthy families came to celebrate their vacation. She was a healthy carrier of typhoid and made the guests sick and they died because of her. Although science had not been developed enough yet and she was tried unfairly it did not make her only a victim. Mary Mallon transformed from victim to villain. When she decided not to report to the police and return to cooking.
Mary Anne born in france was a poor woman who was struggling to even eat and was living on the streets until the French revolution had started in which women began to request their own rights and Mary felt the same way and had began to start public speaking for women's rights in France Mary soon began to group with many other women to form the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women in which Mary was the leader of with the support of many woman around france she began to work and even become part of the rich class of france just from the help of other women who supported her ideas while men were not very interested in women's rights the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women was being shut down which leads Mary to kill those who opposed