A century later, the author Gavin Young tracked down the few remaining traces of Williams in Singapore, including his long-forgotten grave in Bidadari, in the course of researching In Search of Conrad, a book of travel and literary detection. When the dead of Bidadari Cemetery were exhumed in the early 2000s in order to make way for redevelopment plans, Williams' granddaughter, Queenie, a daughter of his youngest son, Cuthbert, reclaimed his remains.[2]