Negative Effects Of Mary Reibey

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Another negative impact that Mary Reibey would have experience from being a convict is convict stain. This would have created a bad environment for her family to live and to work peacefully. In 1794 Mary Reibey married a man name Thomas, a junior officer on the store ship Brtiannia. Thomas was always gone from home on his trading trips. Mary chased accounts, spent time at the farms and ran the warehouses and trading. Mary wanted her children’s future to be secured and therefore invested their money for the future. Shortly after Mary’s seventh child birth, Thomas contracted an illness and died. Mary Reibey was then left with the sole responsibility of raising her seven children and taking over Thomas’s businesses. This heavily impacted Mary

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