The deceased suicided by swallowing strychnine some time in 1893. Before doing so, he had told his fellow workmates he was going to his heaven, but no one took him seriously. 

Many Chinese cooks experienced constant harassment by station hands.

Known as Billy.

Billy Button died from causes unknown.  He was buried by Henry Crosthwaite and Kitty (Aboriginal) on Bidgemia Station.

There is a newspaper article which tells the story of a Bob Button, who is not conclusively a relative: ... About a couple of years ago Bob Button, a pioneer pastoralist of Kimberley, died. As the result of cohabitation with a native woman he left five half-caste children, the first three benefiting under a will made some ten years ago. In that will, Button left them his station, with about a thousand head of cattle running thereon. Subsequent to the date of the will, the other two children were born, but no provision was made for them, and they have nothing to do with the estate. Two of the first three were girls and, being half-castes, became wards of the State under the Aborigines Protection Act. Shortly before the father's death, the girls were sent to the Beagle Bay Mission Station and the boy accompanied them. At that time, the boy was 15 years of age, the girls ten and six respectively. Since Button's death, the boy has left the mission, but the girls still remain. The bush blacks recognising that the station is left to take care of it-self, have been spearing the cattle wholesale, but nothing has been done by the authorities to put a stop to the wanton destruction of their wards' patrimony. It is understood that in his will, Button appointed an old friend in Sydney to act as executor, but he refused to act and renounced the executorship...

The deceased was an old American Negro (also referred to as an African native), who apparently died while taking a fit. He had been a slave, a sailor and then a whaler, and had subsequently 'done time' for bush-ranging in the eastern colonies. At the time of his death, he was acting as cook on the Gascoyne River (at one of Robert Edwins Bush's stations, Lower Clifton Downs, and its sister property Upper Clifton Downs).

When the mailman called there, he found Fisher lying outside, with the fowls eating the maggots on what was left of his body.

Fisher was buried by Constable Thomas Christmas in hard ground on the river bank at Clifton Downs Station.

Percival's father, Alfred, was the station overseer at Bidgemia Station. 

The child died some time in 1889 near the Gascoyne River.

He had a brother, Darcy Percival, born 1889 in Perth (Birth Registration 3401/1899).

Enock Vaughan Jones, a travelling saddler, well-known in this district and the North-West, is reported to have perished 40 miles north-east of Lower Clifton Downs Station somewhere around late March in 1910. From details available to the newspapers, it appears that a native reported to Mr. Scott, the manager of the station, on the 14th inst. that he had found a buggy and two horses between Arthur River and the Gascoyne at a place known as Bush's Top Well. The latter was found six miles away from the buggy, dead, with winkers and hobbles around their necks, both horses having died together. Mounted trooper, Herman Collingwood  Bake (Regimental Numb 692) and native trackers left immediately for the scene on receipt of the news. It now transpires that the conveyance found was a buck board buggy, everything being intact, which must have been there unattended for at least three months. As there have been very heavy rains in the locality and the country was very rough - numerous creeks and high hills and full of little ravines - it seemed highly improbable that the body would ever be recovered.

Jones was totally blind in one eye and the other eye was failing him fast.

It is believed he was a native of Queensland. He had relatives throughout Australia and was much respected and widely known. The missing man was a good bushman, so it is difficult to arrive at any correct theory as to how he perished. He left Walker's station on 18th of March and thus only travelled 20 miles.  

On 30 May 1908, Perth's Western Mail newspaper published a photograph of his buggy, an image of which appears in this file.  The caption underneath the photograph reads: 

The deceased was an old man of unknown age who died about April 1894.  He was found dead on Clifton Downs Station in the Gascoyne.

In January 1895, it was reported that "Intelligence has been received by Mr Inspector Troy (states the Geraldton Telegraph) of the body of a man being found on the Clifton Downs Station", in the Gascoyne District. The body is supposed to have been lying where it was found about nine months, and to be that of an old man named Sherwin, who was well-known in the district, and who is supposed to have been well connected in the old country.

William died on 20.12.1931 aged 78 years on Bidgemia Station. He was buried by his son-in-law, James Brockman, and Frank Norris. His death was certified in writing by James Brockman, at Bidgemia Station.

No details are known about his marriage but he had two children named Frederick and Elizabeth.