He is shown as a farmer, living with his family, in the 1861 census for Fitzroy.

There is a tombstone for a William Owens how died Aug 23, 1910 aged 67, in the Prescott Road Union Cemetery in Osgoode Township, Ontario. If this is him, his wife was Mary Jane Action, who died Apr 19, 1916 (age 73), and then had a son George Robert who died May 28, 1893, age 23.