William Boxhal (c. 12 February 1832 – 12 January 1893) was an English convict transported to colonial Western Australia.
Boxhal would have been lodged at first in the Preston jail, then later sent to Millbank Prison to serve his mandatory period of solitary confinement.
Boxhal remained at Woolwich until December 1855, when he was placed on board William Hammond for transportation to Western Australia.
William Hammond left London on 8 December, taking on more convicts at Portsmouth and Portland and later stopping at Plymouth before finally sailing for Western Australia on 5 January 1856.
He was probably then sent to the Toodyay convict depot, as by January the following year he was working as a shepherd for Dom Rosendo Salvado.
Initially, he squatted or leased an area of land south of New Norcia in partnership with an ex-convict named Owen Lavin.
Leaving his home in Guildford, he travelled to Berkshire Valley north east of New Norcia, to visit one of his sons.