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* Mary Reibey ( 1777 – 1855 ), pioneering entrepreneur who graces the $ 20 note
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Around 1824, ex-convict Mary Reibey applied for a land grant in the Burrier area, on the southern side of the Shoalhaven River.
One of the earliest settlers was Mary Reibey, the first female retailer in Sydney.
Architects that have worked on New Town homes include Thomas Reibey Atkinson, grandson of Mary Reibey, and Henry Hunter, one of Hobart's most prominent early colonial architects.
Mary Reibey ( 12 May 1777 – 30 May 1855 ) was an Englishwoman who was transported to Australia as a convict but went on to become a successful businesswoman in Sydney.
Mary Reibey, baptised Molly Haydock, was born on 12 May 1777 in Bury, Lancashire, England.
On 7 September 1794, 17-year-old Mary married Thomas Reibey, after he had proposed to her several times ; she finally agreed to marry the junior officer on the store ship Britannia.
Thomas Reibey was granted land on the Hawkesbury River, where he and Mary lived and farmed following their marriage.
When Thomas Reibey died on 5 April 1811, Mary assumed sole responsibility for the care of seven children and the control of numerous business enterprises.
Now a woman of considerable wealth by her husband's businesses, Mary Reibey continued to expand her business interests.
An enterprising and determined person of strong personality, during her lifetime Mary Reibey earned a reputation as an astute and successful business woman in the colony of New South Wales.
* Irvine, N, Mary Reibey: Molly Incognito, Library of Australian History, 1982.
Mary and 1777
In 1777 Madison's cousin, the Right Reverend James Madison ( 1749 – 1812 ), became president of The College of William & Mary.
During the ten years of their marriage, Martha bore six children: Martha, called Patsy, ( 1772 – 1836 ); Jane ( 1774 – 1775 ); an unnamed son ( 1777 ); Mary Wayles, called Polly, ( 1778 – 1804 ); Lucy Elizabeth ( 1780 – 1781 ); and Lucy Elizabeth ( 1782 – 1785 ).
Image: Thomas Gainsborough 012. jpg | Gainsborough ` s Daughter Mary ( 1777 )
) The first Indian marriage was blessed by Father Mugártegui on the feast of the " Espousals of the Blessed Virgin Mary ," January 23, 1777.
* Mary Lum ( 1758 – 1815 ), moved here with her husband Stephen Girard in 1777 before being committed for the rest of her life to the insanity ward at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1785.
On March 3, 1777, Dwight married Mary Woolsey ( 1754 – 1777 ), the daughter of New York merchant and banker Benjamin Woolsey ( 1720 – 1771 ).
Martha had three brothers and four sisters: John ( 1733 – 1749 ), William ( 1734 – 1776 ), Bartholomew ( 1737 – 1785 ), Anna Marie " Fanny " Dandridge Bassett ( 1739 – 1777 ), Frances ( 1744 – 1757 ), Elizabeth Dandridge Aylet Henley ( 1749 – 1800 ), and Mary Dandridge ( 1756 – 1763 ).
After their marriage ended in divorce Mary later married Robert Ferguson of Raith ( 1777 – 1846 ) who had been cited in the divorce.
He married Mary Stevens Livingston, daughter of Continental Congressman John Stevens, on September 9, 1770, and built a home for himself and his wife south of Clermont, called Belvedere, which was burned to the ground, along with Clermont, in 1777 by the British Army.
* Portugal: Mary I ( 1777 – 1816 ), John VI ( Regent 1799 – 1816, King 1816 – 1826 )
* Mary Wade ( 1777 – 1859 ), the youngest convict transported to Australia aboard the Lady Juliana
On May 10, 1798 Accum married Mary Ann Simpson ( March 6, 1777 – March 1, 1816 in London ).
Pomeroy married Mary Hunt ( 1705 – 1777 ) on December 14, 1732.
Girard was married to Mary Lum from 1777 until her death in 1815.
Taylor married his childhood sweetheart Mary Morton in 1777, and they had four sons, George Burrow Taylor, John Buller Taylor, William Grainger Taylor and Thomas Taylor, and a daughter, Mary Meredith Taylor.
By November 1776, he was stationed at Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he met and then married Mary ( Maria Stuart ) Proctor, the daughter of Captain Charles Proctor, on 13 June 1777.
He was christened at Saint Mary the Virgin in Dover, Kent on 8 February 1777.
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* Mary Hunter Austin ( 1868 – 1934 ), American writer
* 1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
* 1662 – Mary II of England ( d. 1694 )
* 1907 – Mary Hamman, American writer ( d. 1984 )
* 1837 – Mary Harris Jones, American labor organizer ( d. 1930 )
* 1942 – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Reconstruction, Old and in the Way, and New Riders of the Purple Sage ) ( d. 1995 )
* 1954 – Mary Jo Salter, American poet
* 1876 – Mary Roberts Rinehart, American author ( d. 1958 )
* 1561 – An 18-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots, returns to Scotland after spending 13 years in France.
* 1953 – Mary Matalin, American political consultant
* 1971 – Mary Joe Fernández, Dominican-American tennis player
* 1879 – The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears at Knock Shrine in Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.
* 1905 – Mary Faustina Kowalska, Polish nun, mystic, and saint ( d. 1938 )
Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Jacob Johnson ( 1778 – 1812 ) and Mary (" Polly ") McDonough ( 1783 – 1856 ), a seamstress and the daughter of Andrew McDonough.
* 1888 – Mary Ann Nichols is murdered.
* 1969 – Mary McCartney, English photographer
* 1797 – Mary Shelley, English author ( d. 1851 )
* 1968 – Mary Birdsong, American actress
* 1985 – Mary Elise Hayden, American actress
* 1918 – Mary Healy, American actress
* 1578 – James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots
* 1467 – Mary of York ( d. 1482 )
* 1946 – Mary Jo Slater, American casting director and producer
* 1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain.
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