William Glass

However, William and another man requested permission to remain permanently on the island.

William also brought his South African wife, Maria Magdalena Leenders and two children.

The Glass surname remains one of the most common amongst the local population.

A son, Thomas Glass and a grandson returned ten years later and settled in the old family home on the island.

He married Mary, a daughter of Thomas Hill Swain and had five sons: Joseph, John, Robert, William and Thomas, as well as a daughter Jane (she married Italian emigrant Gaetano Lavarello).