Maids of Officers Wives abroad

[clancam37]

Hi giblet,
Thanks for your many replies.
I cannot find anything re this inquest, so don't know if it's him.
There was another,younger John Boucher who came to VDL as a convict in 1830 on the Bussorah Merchant.  He also married a Catherine (Whalen).  A Mrs C Boucher died by drowning in 1839 and I'm trying to find who it was.
Kind regards
clancam37

Unsure if this is your fella

Tasmania state archives
Inquest Details
Boucher, John
Inquest Date   1 Feb 1869

[majm]

  A Mrs C Boucher died by drowning in 1839 and I'm trying to find who it was.

I suspect that the usual custom in the 1830s was for "C" to be the initial of Mrs Boucher's husband rather than her own first name's initial. 

 
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/31750274
1 Dec 1838 South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register 

Several mentions of a wreck on the Troubridge Reef of a barque from Hobart Town to South Australia, and a Mrs C Boucher and covered in the VDL press in 1839.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/71684917  28 Nov 1838 Southern Australian
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/8749287 1 Jan 1839 Colonial Times (Hobart)
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/65950354 5 Jan 1839 Cornwall Chronicle (Launceston)

"The Rapid brought also the remains of Mrs BOUCHER, wife of C BOUCHER, Esq., recently from the Isle of France.  Mrs BOUCHER had been for some time in ill health, and the excitement and dangers of shipwreck were too much for her exhausted frame.  She died upon the island soon after she was landed."

Mr Charles Boucher was ummmm..... a Con man ..... TROVE newspaper cuttings are very helpful, but there's far more to read in the ferguson papers  http://www.nla.gov.au/ferg/  Alas they are not as user friendly as trove.

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/boucher-charles-2233
http://secure.histwest.org.au/files/ROBERT%20LYON%20MILN1.pdf

Cheers,  JM