Isaac Barter Criminal and Transportation Records

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Isaac Barter Sentencing

There are numerous reports in the newspapers stating that Isaac Barter was to be executed on 21 March 1840 after receiving the death sentence at his trial on 27 February 1840. That sentence was commuted to transportation for life. He was transported to Tasmania on 30 November 1840. The term sentenced was for life.

Isaac was transported to Van Diemens Land on 30 November 1840 arriving on 17 March 1841. His occupation at that time was listed as a ploughman/farm laborer. He was convicted at the Southampton Assizes in Winchester and received the death sentence for participating with four other men in an assault (rape) on Eliza Carter on 28 July 1839.

Convict Transportation

"Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Other Fleets & Ships, 1791-1868"
Class: HO 11; Piece: 12
Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry uk Record 1180 #35147 (accessed 16 May 2022)
Name: Isaac Barter; Vessel: Lady Raffles; Convicted Date: 27 Feb 1840; Voyage Date: 30 Nov 1840; Colony: Tasmania (Van Diemen's Land); Place of Conviction: Southampton, Hampshire, England. [The conviction was for rape]

• Tasmania Libraries Isaac Barter

Isaac was transported with 330 other convicts on the Lady Raffles.

He was also sentenced to death a second time whilst in Tasmania and was removed to Norfolk Island.

SUPREME COURT. (1846, January 30). The Hobart Town Advertiser (Tas. : 1839 - 1861), p. 4. Retrieved May 16, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article264515226

"Isaac Barter, was charged with having on the 25th December last, unlawfully, feloniously, and with malice aforethought, with a certain instrument called a fork, in and upon the left side of the neck of one Alexander Mickie did inflict one mortal wound, of which the said Alexander Mickie then and there died."

Personal Life in Tasmania

Isaac married Ann Mary Jones on 23 January 1860 in Launceston, Tasmania. (FindMyPast indexed record & FamilySearch record image)

Record of Offenses

Record of offenses

Tried Souothampton 27 Feb 1840 - Sentenced to life

Embarked 24 Nov 1840

Arrived 17 Mar 1841

Description: 5' 7", age 25, head is large and round, with dark brown hair, no whiskers, dark brown eyebrows, dark brown eyes, a small nose, with a hairy mole on his left cheek.

Probation: Two years, 26 Sep 1842

Sentenced for: Sheep stealing, Misconduct, improper in his possession of a sheep which had died.

29 May 1847: Having a quantity of sticks concealed (punishment: 14 days)

2 Sep 1847: Misconduct (14 days)

25 Oct 1847: Having a fire improperly in the bush (1 month hole)

Same date: Having a bundle of sticks

16 Nov 1847: Having a fire improperly (36 lashes)

19 Jan 1848: Disobedience (1 month hole)

19 May 1848: Leaving tools on works

10 Jul 1848: Smoking (10 days HLC)

16 Feb 1849: Insolence (1 month HLC)

18 Jun 1849: Insolence (1 month HLC)

Same date: Using inappropriate language (2 months HLC)

Same date: Insolence in court (6 months HLC)

22 Jan 1850: Disobedience (14 days HLC)

19 May 1851 Neglect (1 month HLC)

23 Dec 1851 Neglect (4 months HLC)

Same date: Neglect (6 months HLC)

10 Apr 1855: Misconduct for the purpose of burning one batten of his sleeping berth in the watch house (10 days)

3 Jan 1856: ??

Final Records

Isaac was admitted to the New South Wales, Australia, Hospital & Asylum on the 25th of April 1895, as an infirm and destitute patient suffering from senile decay (old age, age 80).