William Brain, 21, was tried and convicted at the Warwick August Assizes for housebreaking. He was sentenced to 10 years’ transportation. He appears to have spent a year on the hulks before sailing on the Barossa on 31 July 1839.

In 1843 he married Maria Byrne, a convict who had arrived on the Isabella in July 1840. Brain was granted a ticket of leave in 1844 and was allowed to stay in Newcastle, north of Sydney. He died in Newcastle in 1903, aged 89.