William SWADLING and his wife Elizabeth (WATSON) arrived in Sydney, NSW in Dec 1838 via James Pattison with three children. Nine more children were born in NSW. William was a sawyer, and many of his children followed him in the timber industry.

Elizabeth died in December 1863 at the Sydney Hospital, and William of epileptic fits at the Tarban Creek Asylum (Gladesville Hospital) in 1865.