“…In the late 1800’s our father, his brother Robert and several friends went to Fremantle where work could be obtained on the building of wharves. Our father at least must have stayed a few weeks as I have a photo of a small home (very small but neat looking) which he built. Later our mother, then Emily Edith Smith, Mrs Henry, (then Annie Welsford) Janet Craik who later became Mrs Robert Inglis joined the men. Our mother has spoken of the first night she walked down a Fremantle street when every man turned his head to catch a glimpse of a woman. The girls stayed long enough to marry there and to my mother was born a baby girl who did not live. ..”
(Research of W.A. records show William and Emily married in Fremantle in 1996 and Robert and Janet in 1897 in Fremantle.)