Wallace Bickley arrived in Western Australia in 1829, aged 19, with a lot of money and a couple of servants. He took 5000 acres on the Canning River, which he named Kenwick Park. He also had some land at Rottnest, where he met Marianne Amelia Thomson and married her on 23 April, 1833. Isa Izon Bickley was born the following year, and was the only child of the marriage.

After some years in Western Australia, he took his wife and child and moved to India, where Marianne died. He remarried, to a widow - Elizabeth Burke - and had another five daughters.

By 1852, he had made enough money to return to Fremantle from India, travelling in his own ship to Adelaide. He became a merchant, shipowner and was appointed as a Member of the Legislative Assembly.

Wallace Bickley had pretentions to being a baronet, but there is no evidence to support his claim.

Wallace Bickley was the eldest child of Samuel Bickley of Surrey his wife, Elizabeth Agnes Wallace.

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