William Williams (brewer)

He was sent with a commission comprising George Stevenson (secretary to Governor Hindmarsh), Thomas Bewes Strangways and Henry Jickling, to investigate disturbances on Kangaroo Island which had occurred in September 1836.

[2] The location of the Store was at the place known by the Kaurna people as Tininyawardli (or Tinninyawodli), which was just south of where Strangways Terrace was later built, in North Adelaide.

[7] Williams, along with James Cronk, who also arrived on Africaine, made a deliberate effort to find and communicate with the local Aboriginal people, the Kaurna, or "Adelaide tribe".

He was observed to make friends with a group of local people near Glenelg within a couple of weeks of arrival, and Cronk made an effort to learn the Kaurna language early.

[13] In April 1839, Williams accompanied police and Aboriginal trackers, including Kadlitpinna, as interpreter on an expedition to the Lyndoch Valley area to the north of Adelaide, to bring murderers of a shepherd called Duffield to justice.

He then started trading in cattle, and also did business in timber and land, and then engaged his brother-in-law Edward Catchlove built a grander establishment named the Victoria Hotel.

[17] In December 1939 Williams announced in the South Australian Record that the opening of the new hotel was imminent, "for the accommodation of families and gentlemen arriving in the colony, and where every possible attention will be paid to the comfort of those who may honour him with their patronage.

The hotel will consist of one large public diningroom, three smaller ones private, several double and single bed-rooms, subscription billiard-room, most comfortable, airy, and extensive livery stables, stockyard, etc.

[27] Jane arrived in South Australia in November 1836 aboard Tam O'Shanter with her father Edward William Catchlove and three brothers and sisters.