PIONEERS AND SETTLERS BOUND FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA

PARSEE 1838


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PARSEE from Hobart, Tas with Captain J McKillar to Pt Adelaide
- wrecked on Troubridge Shoal in Nov 1838.


Report published in the South Australian GAZETTE and Colonial REGISTER
in December 1838:

In November 1838 Mrs Boucher died when the PARSEE was wrecked at Troubridge Shoal in Gulf St Vincent, and Charles took her body back to Mauritius for burial.
He returned to Adelaide in July 1839. On July 2nd 1840 at Halstead, Prosser Plains in Tasmania, he married Isabella, second daughter of Robert Laing, a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, and soon afterwards returned to Adelaide.