Date of Conviction: 20/07/1786

Age at Conviction: 25

Crime Convicted of: Theft

Court Convicted at: Lancaster Quarter Sessions (held at unknown location, Manchester)

Sentence Length: 7 Years

Ship Transported on: Friendship & Prince of Wales

Where Arrived: Port Jackson, New South Wales

Departure Date: 13/05/1787

Arrival Date: 21/01/1788

Biography: Isabella was from Bury, originally from Skipton, North Yorkshire. She had stolen three pieces of fabric along with her brother Thomas (also transported onboard the same ship, who was a woollen draper, as possibly was she) and was one of only four Lancastrian women sent to a Hulk (the Dunkirk- the only hulk that held female prisoners prior to sailing) along with Elizabeth Thackery, Jane Parkinson and Sarah McCormick before sailing. Despite only meaning to be on the hulk at Plymouth for a week or two, they were there over four months.They were put aboard ship on March 11th and became part of the First Fleet.

Isabella was transferred to the Prince of Wales at the Cape of Good Hope. Sadly, she died soon after arrival in March 1789 at Sydney. Her brother would go onto to become a night watchman and eventually leave the colony for Bengal.