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Hi Adrian, i see it has been a long time since you posted this question but i've only just viewed it. This info i received from another and it refers to the gentleman you are looking for. Please get in touch.
Added by janeblewis on 7 May 2007
William Dilley arrived in Fremantle from Adelaide 22nd Februray 1847 aboard the Java.
He married Ellen Boyt in Fremantle 26th December 1850. Ellen arrived from England aboard the Sophia 22nd July 1850.
He was a Private soldier in the 96th Regiment. ( The Manchester Regiment ) A reference book ( A Companion to the British Army by D. Ascoli ) shows that the 96th has battle honour for the Maori Wars in New Zealand in 1846-7.
His 'record of service' from 3893 AJCP W.O.12. 9616 (on reels at the Battye Library).
William Dilley, Private, 1152 96th Regiment.
April 1843 - September 1844: Port Lincoln, South Australia
1st January - 31st March 1845: Murray River, South Australia
Liquor stopped for 24 days for misconduct
1845 Adelaide SA
Embarked the Java in Adelaide. We know the Java had come from Hobart and we presume it came via Adelaide where it picked up passengers, and arrived Fremantle 24th February 1847.
William was stationed at Rottnest 'till march 1847 then Swan River, Toodjay, York and then briefly back to Rottnest then to York again untill March/April 1489. He was discharged 31st May 1849.
By 1850 was at Fremantle as a butcher. There he married Ellen Boyte. Moved to Perth and was listed in the 1859 Census as a sawyer with 2 servants. An excerpt from the history of Capel Shire "Just a Horse Ride Away" fills in a little more detail.
"Another retired soldier was William Dilley who arrived in the Colony in 1847 as a private in the 96th Regt. On his discharge in 1849 he worked as a butcher and married Ellen Boyte. Sometime in the 1860s, William, Ellen and their young daughters made their way south to a farm not far from the Ludlow River. The Dilley girls made a welcome addition to the limited pool of marriageable females; a point which did not escape Trooper Thomas Williams. Thomas was yet another with a military background. He worked as a guard on the convict road parties and often scoured the district for absconders. When he could afford it he purchased about 11 acres of bottom land on the north side of Capel, near Mallokop bridge. With some property and prospects he offered his heart to young Elena Dilley. They were married in 1867, and Henry, the first of 12 children was born not long after Elena's mother gave birth to baby George Edmund in 1868."
He employed a Ticket of Leave ( TOL ) man at Capel in 1866. He was Church of England and his wife was Weslyian. Both were literate.
He and Ellen are mentioned in a book called "Just a Horse Ride Away" which is a history of the Shire of Capel and its people. In 1874
"William Dilley bought 10 acres of sub lot 20, next door to the proposed site of the Catholic Church. Dilley was still a shopkeeper at heart: perhaps he saw his chance to develop a business by the new road and bridge. Clever with his hands, he built a simple stone and weatherboard cottage with an iron lean to at the back. The Dilleys did not move into their new home untill the spring of 1879.
Sometime around these early 1880s William Dilley also took advantage of the coach run and opened a general store opposite the Inn.New settlers passing by might stop to fix a wheel or pick up some fresh eggs and vegetables for the journey south. Across the river Thomas Williams found a ready market for his vegetables and butter at Dilley's store.
He died in 1891with an age recorded of 73 ( Reg No. 533 ). His birth is therefore assumed to have been in 1818 though the Parish Register for Old Warden Bedfordshire shows 3rd March 1822 but I'm not sure if that was a record of birth or christening.
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