And in the same period he was to win three Scottish caps, scoring three times and outwith football in 1890 to marry, he recorded as Ships Draughtsman. His wife was Edinburgh-girl, Christina (Tina) Jack. They were to have five children, three born in Glasgow, one in Partick and one in New Jersey in the USA in 1902. Probably for work reasons, it seems the family would with the turn of the century spent a short time across the water from Philadelphia in Camden, the major New York Shipbuilding Company being there. But it returned to Scotland, where he became a shipyard manager in Dalmuir, by Clydebank from where in 1951 he would more likely have retired to or be on holiday at Kilchattan Bay on Bute, when he passed away. He was eighty-one years old, survived by Tina, who would die in 1956 in Manchester, where her "American" daughter seems to have settled.