• Title
  Hope and Reibey families - Correspondence, 1792-1870, documents, 1820, 1859, and transcriptions, 1989
• Creator
  Hope family
• Call number
  SAFE/MLMSS 5512/1 (Safe 1/261)
  MLMSS 5512/2
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1792-1870, 1989
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  457379
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : CY 2556, frames 1-115 (MLMSS 5512/1, filed at Safe 1/261).
  Microfilm : CY 2556, frames 116-340 (MLMSS 5512/2).
  
• Physical Description
  0.04 metres of textual material (2 folders) - manuscript
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  David Hope, of Messrs Fleming and Hope, brokers of Glasgow, Scotland, and Mary Reibey were first cousins. Mary Reibey was born Molly Haydock in England in 1777. David Hope was born in 1786. He was five years old when Molly was sentenced and transported to Botany Bay for seven years for stealing a horse. She arrived in Australia in 1792. Little is known of her life during the two years following her arrival until her marriage to Sydney Thomas Reibey, a junior marine officer, on 1 September 1794. The Reibeys had seven children : Thomas II (1796-1842), James I (1798-1844), George (1801-1823), Celia (1803-1823), Eliza (1805-1870), Jane Penelope (1807-1854), and Elizabeth (1810-1855).
  At the time of his death in 1811, Thomas Reibey was a successful businessman and landowner. His business activities extended from the Hunter to Bass Strait, and Tahiti. Following her husband's death Mary Reibey took over and extended the family's business activities, accumulating land in New South Wales and Tasmania. In 1820 she made a visit to England with her elder daughters, Celia and Eliza. Among the many cousins and other relatives whom she met were David Hope and his sister Alice Atkin (1790-1854). Mary Reibey, her children and grandchildren were regular correspondents of David Hope and the Hope family. Mary Reibey died in Newtown, Sydney, in 1855, predeceased by five of her children. David Hope died unmarried in 1857.
• Scope and Content
  DAVID HOPE
  17 original letters received by David Hope :
  Letters (5) received from Mary Reibey, 14 Feb. 1821, 19 June 1825, 5 Aug., 1825, 20 Oct. 1829, 21 June 1845
  Letters (2) received from James Reibey I, 6 May 1821, 17 Sept. 1823. The letter of 6 May 1821 includes part of a letter from George Reibey to his brother James, probably sent to David Hope as an enclosure
  Letters (2) received from George Reibey, 29 May 1821, 14 Feb. 1823
  Letter received from Jane Penelope Atkinson, nee Reibey, 9 Feb. 1825
  Letter received from Eliza Thomson, nee Reibey, 6 July 1825
  Letter received from Thomas Reibey II, 8 Sept. 1838
  Letter received from J.O. Denny, 1 Sept. 1839
  Letter received from Mary Helen Thomson, 11 Jan. 1844
  Letter received from John Dunmore Lang, 19 Mar. 1844
  Letter received from Charles Cobbold, 10 Sept. 1846
  Letter received from Celia L. Pym, nee Long Innes, 14 Mar. 1852 (Call No.: MLMSS 5512/1 , filed at Safe 1/261 ; issue microfilm CY 2556)
  
  DOCUMENTS
  Table titled 'Sketch of Mrs. Reibey's Farms in New South Wales 1820', being a list of farms with names of tenants, number of acres, length of leases, present and projected amounts of rent. (Call No.: MLMSS 5512/1 , filed at Safe 1/261 ; issue microfilm CY 2556)
  Statement by the representatives of the late James H. Reibey to the Trustees of his estate, 26 June 1859 (Call No.: MLMSS 5512/1 , filed at Safe 1/261 ; issue microfilm CY 2556)
  
  TRANSCRIPTIONS
  'The Reibey letters: a file of letters written by Molly Haydock / Mary Reibey her descendants and others, 1792-1852', compiled in 1989. Three volumes of typed transcriptions of letters, family trees and biographical information. Includes transcriptions of : letters in MLMSS 5512/1; letter from Molly Haydock to Penelope Hope, 1792; letter from Mary Reibey to Alice Hope, 1818; letters (5) from James C. Reibey (1848-1870) to his mother Charlotte Reibey, nee Clack, ca. 1865-1870; extract of a letter from Rev. William Hope to John Hope, 9 July 1829. (Call No.: MLMSS 5512/2 ; issue microfilm CY 2556)
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Atkinson, Jane Penelope, 1807-1854
  Atkinson, John, 1795-1893
  Hope, Alice, 1790-1854
  Hope, David, 1786-1857
  Hope, Penelope, 1754-1817
  Hope, William, b. 1788
  Lang, John Dunmore, 1799-1878
  Pym, Celia L.
  Reibey, Charlotte
  Reibey family
  Reibey, George, 1801-1823
  Reibey, James, 1798-1844
  Reibey, James C., 1848-1870
  Reibey, James Haydock, 1823-1897
  Reibey, Mary, 1777-1855
  Thomson, Eliza, 1805-1870
  
• Subject
  Businesswomen--New South Wales.
  Sydney (N.S.W.)--Commerce--1788-1851.
  Tasmania--Commerce.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
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