In the 1832 Census, Thomas Wall is said to be 31, a carpenter from Kent. He seems to have been successful enough to buy a Fremantle Town Lot in 1854, presumably to build a house (roughly where the Pizza Addiction shop next to His Majesty's Hotel now stands).
Erickson:
WALL, Thomas Boys, b. 1793/1801 (Eng), d. 19.10.1865 (York), Arr. 23.8.1829 per Marquis of Anglesea with family, m. (Eng) Matilda STIRING b. 1794/1800 d. 30.5.1865 (York). Chd. George b. 1824, Emma Matilda b. 1826, Mary Ann b. 1828 d. 1906. Carpenter, granted 3,000 acres. Selected 50 acres in Avon district. Employed by Harbour Master as boat builder 1829-1830. Bt. Frem. Town Lot 40 [6-8 Mouat St] 1854. Listed in York Census [1859] as living with his son-in-law Thomas Morse.
Berryman, Ian 1979 ed., A Colony Detailed: The First Census of Western Australia 1832, Creative Research, Perth: no. 251.
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