William, a carpenter, worked for Dr Joseph Harris, as an indentured servant at his Upper Swan property 'Strelley' until December 1833, when dissatisfied with his employment, he left to seek improved conditions elsewhere in the Colony. After a week or so, having had no luck, he was returning to his family and employer, when he was induced to swim in the river at Upper Swan and was accidentally drowned. He was buried at Guildford, but the grave location is unknown. Hannah Melroy remarried 31 December 1834 to Daniel Syred at Guildford. A daughter Mary Ann, was born on 16 February 1836 in Perth. When the child was young, the family lived in a tent at the bottom of Mill Street, near the Swan River in Perth. In the 1840's William (junior) and his brother Henry worked for James Stokes at his Albion brewery, but tragedy again struck when Henry died of tetanus, after treading on a rusty nail. It appears that in 1842-43, Stokes probably returned William to England to further improve his knowledge of brewing, and in due course he progressed to become foreman of Stokes' Albion/Stanley Brewery. Between 1848 and the early 1850's, Henry Saw, a business man, was engaged by Stokes to perform the accounting duties for the brewery, and in 1853 married William's half-sister Mary Ann Syred. Over the years they had six children. Hannah Syred (widow Meloy) husband Daniel, apparently left the Colony in 1845, and in 1858 Hannah married for a third time, to Charles King - a wheelwright. A year earlier William married Elizabeth Arnold. They had two sons who died young, but in 1862 were fortunate to have twin daughters, Selina and Hannah. For the time being events seemed to run smoothly, but in 1869 William and Mary's mother - now Hannah King died. Henry Saw died in 1870 and in 1871 Charles King - Hannah's third husband. When James Stokes died in 1861, his will stipulated that William Meloy and Henry Saw should continue to run the brewery. William was unhappy about methods to be introduced by new owners/management at the Stanley Brewery, so he left in 1871 and set up his own brewery called Colonial Industries on his property at the corner of Hay and Milligan Streets, where the Melbourne Hotel now stands. The venture met with little success, so he and his wife ran a public house, which the family continued after William Meloy's death in 1890 at the age of 62 years.