Summary
Personal Information
Crime
Voyage
Transportation
Isabella Arnett was transported on the Henry Wellesley, departing 17th Jul 1837 and arriving 22nd Dec 1837 with 140 passengers.
304 ton ship built in India in 1804.
Henry Wellesley (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 90, Class and Piece Number HO11/11, Page Number 96 Death notice in Goulburn and Herald Chronicle dated 28 August 1867 |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Convict Notes
Henry Wellesley Medical Journal. No; 55. Aged; 28 years old. Spinster. Admitted; 20 November 1837 at sea. with Synocha [ continued fever, characterized by increased heat; and by quick, strong, and hard pulse; urine high-coloured; disturbance of mind slight It requires, of course, the most active treatment] Discharged; On Shore BROTHER; Edward Arnett, a prisoner, at Hobart, per "Recovery" 1837
Isabella had a colourful life. She and her brother Edward ran what at the time was one of the largest counterfeit coin organisations in the UK. This earned them both life transportation, he to VDL, she to NSW. Feisty, intelligent and educated, she married twice, the second time to Stephen Phillips, a postmaster, and lived and worked in Taralga NSW where she was a school teacher until she died in 1867.
Convicted at the same time as her brother for counterfeiting coins in Virgil Street Liverpool, but he was transported to Van Diemens Land.