Mary Reibey – The Woman on the Twenty Dollar Note – U3A Wagga Wagga (2024)

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How much money did Mary Reibey make? ›

The recently widowed Mary opened a new warehouse in George Street in 1812, expanded her shipping fleet and by the age of 40 in 1817 was estimated to be worth about £20,000 (roughly equivalent to between two and three million Australian dollars today, but with much greater purchasing power!).

She was 15 years old when she arrived in Sydney in 1792. Mary was assigned as a nursemaid to the household of Major Francis Grose. In 1794 Mary married Thomas Reibey, a merchant and landholder and they had seven children.

Australian $20 notes were issued from 1966 up until they were replaced in 1994. Some notes can be particularly valuable with the right serial numbers or if in mint condition, prices for a single twenty dollar note can reach up to $19,500 for the rarest note in perfect quality.

1828: By 1828, when she gradually retired from active involvement in commerce, she had acquired extensive property holdings in the city. On her retirement, she built a house at Newtown, Sydney, where she lived until her death. 1855: Reibey died on 30 May 1855.

After her grandmother died when she was in her early teens, Mary apparently spent much of her time disguised as a boy and called herself James Burrows. It was under this guise that she was arrested for stealing horses in 1790, a most serious offense punishable by hanging.

At the time, she was disguised as a boy and was going under the name of James Burrow. Sentenced to seven years' transportation, she arrived in Sydney, Australia, on the Royal Admiral in October 1792. Letter written by Reibey to her aunt Penelope Hope.

In 1794 Mary married Thomas Reibey, a merchant and landholder and they had seven children. After Thomas' death in 1811, Mary became a prosperous businesswoman in her own right with interests in trading vessels and property.

Born on 12^th May 1777 in Bury, Lancashire in England, Mary Reibey went on to become many things including a convict, wife, mother of seven, a businesswoman, and a trader. Important Mary Reibey facts include how in 1792 Mary was transported to Australia after being sentenced for the crime of stealing a horse.

This is a great book about a young girl transported to the Colony of New South Wales as a convict, yet she overcame all obstacles and carved out a successful life for herself and her family. But, not without tragedies.

The charity auction held on Thursday by Spink and Son saw a rare King Charles £20 note with the serial number EH 01 000002 sold for £7,000 (350 times the amount on the note). A range of other £20 notes were also sold at the auction ranging in price from £3,500 to £4,500.

What is a rare $20 bill? ›

An uncirculated $20 silver certificate from 1886 with a large red U.S. Treasury seal can be worth more than $22,500, with circulated versions still worth up to $11,000, according to the USCA.

Australia's colourful bank notes are known by many colloquial names. The twenty-dollar note is referred to as a lobster, while the fifty-dollar note is called a pineapple, and don't we all want to get our hands on a few jolly green giants, that is, hundred-dollar notes?

Mary Reibey is one of the most famous early convict women in the colony of New South Wales. A convicted horsethief, Mary went on to run an extensive importing and mercantile business and there are numerous references to her business dealings, liquor licences, land grants and purchases throughout the State archives.

The new $20 banknote retains the portraits of Mary Reibey and Reverend John Flynn, which are drawn from the same source photographs represented on the first polymer $20 banknote.

The ladies on our current set of banknotes, which were designed in the early 1990s, are Dame Mary Gilmore ($10), Mary Reibey ($20), Edith Cowan ($50) and Dame Nellie Melba ($100). Catherine Helen Spence also appeared on a commemorative Federation $5 note.

Mary Reibey, persevering and enterprising in everything she undertook, became legendary in the colony as the successful businesswoman. She took an interest in the church, education and works of charity. In 1825 she was appointed one of the governors of the Free Grammar School.

James Dillingham Young." The "Dillingham" had been flung to the breeze during a former period of prosperity when its possessor was being paid $30 per week. Now, when the income was shrunk to $20, though, they were thinking seriously of contracting to a modest and unassuming D. But whenever Mr.

One of the first customers and shareholders of the Bank of NSW, which later became Westpac, Mary even made money from the bank by renting out one of her many properties to it for £150 a year. That was quite a sum of money in 1817.