Married Mary 23 June 1812 at Portsea, Hampshire. William, his wife Mary, five sons and one daughter aged from two to thirteen years arrived with James Stirling on the first ship the 'Parmelia'. Hokin was a government employee from the Portsmouth area and was on an indentured contract for one year. The joy of anchoring off Garden Island on the 31 May 1829 was dampened by a storm and the grounding of the ship on a shoal. Women and children of the artificers were transferred to Carnac Island and were marooned there for five days without proper shelter or food. The Round House in Fremantle would have been partly constructed by Hokin, and in 1830 he was granted a land grant (Perth Lot D17). Mary Ann had Perth Lot D3 in 1833. He built a hotel but on 17 December 1831 William drowned in the Swan River. Mary Ann Hokin remarried John Thomas 22 May 1833, who was convicted of plundering the wreckage of the ship 'Cumberland' in 1834. He was sent to Van Diemens Land for seven years. In 1837 Charles Hokin, aged 11years old, was employed as a shepherd by Major Nairn and was wounded by a native spear. The aborigine was hanged. William and Mary Ann's daughter, Mary Ann, married Henry Strickland. Both she and her mother are buried in East Perth Cemetery. Mary Ann Hokin (Thomas) died 3 August 1876. Three of the sons are interred in Maldon, Victoria and their graves have been restored by their descendants in 2004.