How Did Mary Reibey Impact Society

Using all the sources provided and your own research analyse the impact of the convict experience on the life of Mary Reibey. (800-1000 words).

Mary Haydock, now formally known as Mary Reibey was born on the 12th May 1777 (source 1) and was raised by her grandmother after both her parents died when Mary was of a young age. Mary was convicted of horse stealing at the age of 13 and was to be sent to Australia for seven years (source 1). Being sent away from her family and in particular her grandmother, meant that Mary was alone and isolated from the people that she would have felt most comfortable around. This lack of belongingness may have caused Mary Reibey depression which was common for convicts of such a young age.

Mary White Rowlandson was a colonial American who was held captive by Algonkian Indians during King Philip's War. She was born in 1637 in Somerset, England. Her parents brought her along with her nine siblings to the colonies when she was young. Her parents were John and Joan White and she married Reverend Joseph Rowlandson in 1656. Their first child, Mary, died after her third birthday and they had three other children named Joseph, Mary, and Sarah.

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

Mary’s mother began to disguise Mary as a boy after the death of her older brother. This was done to continue to receive financial support from his paternal grandmother. The grandmother was apparently fooled, and Read and her mother lived on the inheritance into her teenage years. Still dressed as a boy Read then found work as a foot-boy, and later found employment on a ship. Read, in a male disguise, proved herself through battle, but fell in love with a soldier.

Madame C.J. Walker was born on December 23, 1867 in Delta, Louisiana and was named Sarah Bredlove. Her parents were Owen and Mernirva Bredlove. She was the youngest of six kids and was the first one born into freedom, after the Emancipation Proclamation. Her parents and siblings were all slaves owned by Robert W. Burney at the Madison Parish plantation. Her mother died in 1878 of cholera which is bacterial disease. Her father re-married and left Sarah to be an orphan at the age of seven and had to live with her older sister. At the age of fourteen she married a man named Moses McWilliams. When she turned twenty her husband died, but they had a daughter named Leila McWilliams.

Mary Ann Cotton was born October 31 1832 and died on March 24 1873. She was England’s first female murderer as her murders reached the front cover of every single news stand in Britain. She is best known for killing three of her four husbands, apparently in order to collect on their insurance policies. Overall she killed and poisoned 21 people in total ,including eleven of her thirteen children. Moreover, she grew up in the City of Sunderland, Endlnad. At the age of 8 her parents moved the entire family to the County Durham village of Murton. While in school, she was extremely lonely and did not make any friends. Right after the move, her father fell to his death down a mine shaft. After her father’s death, her mother remarried to George Stott. Mary found it difficult to get along with him and at the age of 16 she eventually moved out to become a nurse.After three years studying to become a nurse, Mary’s dreams fell apart as she returned home to live with her mother and eventually became a dressmaker.

Roger Williams- Puritan leader who was exiled from Massachusetts and eventually went on to merge multiple colonies to create the colony of Rhode Island.

Archibald, Mary’s father, died when she was two years old. Mary attended a small catholic school in Alexandria Virginia called The Academy for Young Ladies. The school left a great impact on Mary and she remained a devout catholic and southern sympathizer. At the age of seventeen, she married John Harrison Surratt; they settled on land John had inherited from his family in Neales, Maryland. They had a very unhealthy relationship from early on; they both had different religious views and John became an abusive alcoholic. Mary and John had three children, Elizabeth, Anna, and John Junior Surratt. Both Anna and John played very key roles throughout Mary’s trial and

Mary Musgrove was born in 1700 in Georgia, and was a member of the Cherokee. She was a colonial American translator and negotiator for English and Yamacraw ancestry. She facilitated in the development of Colonial Georgia and became an important negotiator between the Muscogee Creek Indians and the English colonists. These two distinct societies caused Musgrove to bridge the gap between them, ultimately causing her to become a cultural mediator, who not only translated but advised those who acknowledged her capabilities and hardships. After many years of attempting to unite two diverse worlds, she died in her sleep in 1767. Mary Musgrove is known as an individual hero by Native American society because of her attempts to create a life that merged both cultures and for fighting for

Mary expressed more feelings and concerns about her travels than Robert Robe did in his journal entries. Being that she was the wife of a doctor, most likely she lived a more privileged life. Life on the trail must have been extremely difficult for her since she never before slept in a tent. In her diary she wrote about the city, being stuck in the mud even the rain. She adamantly talks about how they should have never left their home where they left all of their friends and family. Her journal shows the risks people took when moving westward. Losing their personal belongings like her husband did in a fire in Sacramento City. Mary’s journal gives a glimpse of the past to historians, it shows them that life in the city wasn’t always easy, even if you had money and many had to start over from nothing.

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

In 1861, Mary married George E. Jones and eventually had four children. In 1867, Mary lost her husband and four children to a yellow fever epidemic. After a sudden tragedy of losing her family, she relocated to Chicago to pursue her dream of owning a dressmaking shop. In 1871, she lost all her possession to a building

Mary converted to Catholicism at age sixteen and married the unstable alcoholic John Surratt, age twenty-six, who died in 1862 and left her with the "boardinghouse at 541 H Street" (1). Through her son, John Jr., a confederate courier (or messenger), Mary gained ties to Booth and other accomplices who stayed at the boardinghouse often.

Mary Wroth was born around October 18, 1687 to the Sidney family who financially supported the arts and had a reputation as a literary family. Eventually becoming a prominent author of the Jacobean era, the time period during the reign of James VI, Wroth was educated informally by tutors in traditional studies as well as musical studies throughout much of her childhood at Penshurst. Wroth’s Aunt had a small college at Wilton, where she Mary received a more formal education. Mary Sidney had a country estate that Mary Wroth often visited that was a cultural hub for a variety of thinkers. Along with hosting Wroth at her estate, Sidney shaped many of Wroth’s ideas.