In the new league the Hi-Hi's would first achieve mid-table safety, their best placing being fourth in 1893 the year before Thomson would hang up his boots. It would also be two before he would marry, in Barrhead, his bride Elisabeth McLay, born in Alexandria. They would have two sons and a daughter, who died aged four, the couple soon moving to Pollokshields, where all the children would be born. And there the family settled, that is until Andy's final retirement at which point he and Lizzie would move to a bungalow in Prestwick. And it was there that Andy passed away in 1936 at the age of seventy, Lizzie outliving him by sixteen years, dying still in the seaside town in 1951, aged eighty-seven. Both are buried with their infant daughter in Neilston Cemetery.