William Foster arrived with mother Elizabeth and stepfather John Tichbon and sister Mary Anne. William was an indentured labourer to Solomon Levey. According to the 1832 population census of Perth, William was aged twenty one years, single and born in Salehurst Sussex. Maria Read arrived with parents George and Elizabeth. William married Maria on 9 November 1836 at Perth. They had seven children - only one (Frederick George ) did not survive. William signed his name to correspondence relating to the Government of Australian Colonies in 1837, in particular the high expenditure of buying and improving land in the new Colony. Being the owner of Lot D7, a block running between Adelaide Terrace and Howick Street, the house on this land was advertised to let in 1843 by William. It would appear that William had at some time been a farmer, possibly in the York/Northam district, as he mentions cattle herds and farming implements in his will in 1872. By the 1860's William was the licensee and Victualler of the 'Old Narrogin Inn' in Armadale. He met his untimely death in 1874, murdered by a servant. William Henry Foster died 14 February 1874 at Armadale and his wife Maria died 7 December 1884.