Captain Charles Howe Fremantle, in command of the HMS Challenger took formal possession of the west coast of Australia on 2 May 1829 - a month before the first European settlers arrived in the Swan River Colony. Captain Fremantle kept a diary which has been published. The City of Fremantle has been named after him, also Swanbourne and Cottesloe. He returned to England and married Isabella Wedderburn on 8 October 1836. They had three children. Charles died 25 May 1869.