On arrival William, Martha, John and Mary landed from a row boat on the beach along Cockburn Sound. William was a stonemason indentured to Captain Bamber at Fremantle. However he broke his contract and worked around Fremantle for higher wages. It is believed he helped to build the Round House in 1831 - the first gaol in the Colony. Had Fremantle Lot 333 in 1830. After William died on 8 August 1841, Martha married for a second time to Thomas Davis on 11 October 1846 at Fremantle. Daughter Mary Ann married George Hodges and William George was born in 1850. Sarah was born in 1852. George and his son were drowned in a boating tragedy. Mary then married John Chester in 1860. Son William John married Emma Mary Hancock in 1859 - they went to the north west where he became a pioneer pastoralist in 1864. Emma became known as the 'Mother of the Northwest' and is commemorated in a 1979 in a brass plaque in the Perth pavement for the year 1864.