(1837-15/03/1897)
He died in Perth. William arrived on 06/04/1859 on the Hamilla Mitchell, with his wife Elizabeth Longley (1838-). Their children were Alfred, Anna Maria (1859-1892), Elizabeth Jane (1861-), Florence Edith Lima (1865-1926), Arthur Longley (1868-), Alice Maude (baptised 1870), Emma Blanche (baptised 1872), William George Burfoot (1874-), Hay Eveline (1876-), Henry Horace (1878-) and Gertrude (1885-). William was in Fremantle in 1860. He went to Bunbury and worked as a police constable from 1861 to 1865 and was also an emigrant officer. He bought Town Lots in 1864 and 1867. In Perth he was a police sergeant and local bailiff from 1865 to 1869. By 1873 William was incharge of the poorhouse and was a sympathetic officer with limited facilities. In 1875 he was a member of the Perth Horticultural Society and a prominent Freemason. In 1865 he nominated his sister-in-law Maria Murfoot who was 34 years old, from Kent and unmarried. He employed a ticket of leave labourer in 1867. He lived at ‘The Cedars’ in Perth.