He arrived on 21/05/1851 on the Mermaid as an Enrolled Pensioner Guard with his wife Harriet (-1905). Harriet died in Fremantle. She was the daughter of Joseph. She remarried on 31/03/1870 in Fremantle to Thomas Freeman. William and Harriet’s children were William H. (1856-1869) who drowned and George (1856-). William bought Bunbury Town Lots in 1859 and was assigned Lot P10 in 1866. He sailed to Singapore with sandalwood and horses on the Travancore on 17/10/1859