It is recorded that William Ledgard had expectations of a legacy of 1500 pounds under the will of his late father Daniel Ledgard of Mirfield. He is said to have left England without his parents.The family was known to Thomas Hardey and Charles Clarkson who came from Yorkshire in the Tranby. Ledgard accompanied Thomas Peel in the Rockingham and was listed as an apothecary having claimed to have studied as a surgeon. In 1831 he applied for the position of 'Keeper of Government Stock' at York. In 1832 he moved to Fremantle, the census showing him in the household of Charles Clarkson. He wrote several articles for the Gazette of native stories of a sighting of a figure taller than a house roof top in the wetlands along the Murray River on the holdings of Thomas Peel. In 1834 he held Fremantle Town Lot 131 and 132 in Short Street and 200 acres of land purchased from Thomas Peel adjoining Lake Munster adjacent to the town site of Clarence (Woodman's Point). He proposed marriage to the seventeen year old eldest daughter of John Bateman and in consideration made a marriage settlement of the lands in favour of John Bateman and Charles Clarkson. They were married 24 December 1834 at the Cantonment, Fremantle. The Perth Gazette 17 January 1835 reports of William Ledgard and five others being charged with stealing from the wreck of the 'Cumberland' which was taking the goods of the Bussell family to the Vasse. They all pleaded guilty and William was sentenced to seven years transportation to Van Diemens Land. Ledgard was granted his ticket-of-leave but Tasmanian records do not show his departure. A memorial deed 16 August 1878 (WA Vol 8/298) records that he died in South Australia at Butlers Creek about 9 May 1877. Wife remarried Robert Ferres 11 July 1848 at Fremantle. Elizabeth died 6 September 1898 in Kadina in South Australia.