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Voyage
Transportation
Richard Mincher was transported on the Isabella, departing 15th Jan 1842 and arriving 19th May 1842 with 270 passengers.
The Isabella was built in London in 1818. She was owned by William Wiseman, Patrick Chalmers and James Wallace. The Isabella transported convicts to Australia in 1818 (NSW), 1822 (NSW), 1823 (NSW), 1832 (NSW), 1833 (VDL) and 1842 (VDL).
Isabella (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 91, Class and Piece Number HO11/13, Page Number 10 |
| 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 |
Claims
"We are pretty sure Richard Mincher/Minchor is actually our Richard Inchmore"
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Convict Notes
Place of origin: Kinver, Staffordshire CON33-1-20 Image 164 Trade; Ploughman & farm Labourer aged 22 years old 1873 - Brickfields Invalid Depot: Name; Richard Minchor ** Ship to colony: Isabella POL709-1-10 page 199 (26 Sep 1873 to 02 Dec 1873) - Taken out by his wife, living at Franklin. Blind.
Henry Shirley. Richard Mincher, William Walker, and Josh. Blackham, charged with breaking and entering the of Thomas Storer, at the parish of Penkridge, and stealing there-from a quantity of wearing apparel and other articles. Staffordshire Advertiser, 14 Aug 1841. BURGLARY NEAR Strarvonn.—Yesterday morning week, about three men entered the house of Mr.Storer, at Gailing aley Lee, and stole from thence a large quantity of wearing apparel, and about seven o'clock four ill-looking fellows the side of were observed by a person at a distance loitering by the canal near Bloxwich Flour Mill, a mile from Walsall, having three bundles, the contents of which they seemed preparing divide amongst them; Foxall, police officer, at Bloxwich, was apprised of the circumstance, and directly followed them on horseback to Walsall, where he overtook them in Able- well- Street. On seeing Foxall, the men threw down the bundles, and endeavoured to escape, but they were secured and they were lodged in Walsall gaol soon after eight o'clock. Their names—Richard Mincher, of Kinver; Henry Shirley, from Penkridge; William Walker, and Joseph Blackham, brickmaker, from Wolverhampton—the two latter well known in the police and sessions courts. The prisoners have been committed for trial. They are young men, from twenty to twenty-five years of age. Staffordshire Advertiser, 14 Aug 1841.