Captain Thomas Hester was gazetted Ensign in Royal West Middlesex Militia in 1810. He fought in the Battle of Waterloo and all his five children were born in Calais, France. Sara was their only daughter being ten years old when he sailed with his wife Sophia in the 'Lotus' to arrive at Fremantle on the 6 October 1829 with four small boys and one servant. Thomas took up 3280 acres of land on the Canning River (Location 19) the farm being known as 'Redcliff Farm'. Sophia died in child birth the following year on 29 December 1830. He continued to develop his farm and became Resident Magistrate and Post Master for the district. Thomas died on the 4 May 1867 and is buried in the East Perth Cemetery. Hester Park (Langford - a suburb of Perth) bounded by Ellison Drive and Hester Street is named after the family. His daughter Sara Sophia (1821-1895) married Nathan Knight in York in 1847.