 He married twice, firstly in 1860 to Mary Walker, daughter of the Tasmanian businessman and politician John Walker.He was widowed in April 1871, and in January 1873 remarried to Janet Marian Snodgrass, the daughter of the Victorian pastoralist and politician Peter Snodgrass.He had two sons and two daughters by his first wife, and another four sons and four daughters by his second; he was survived by Janet and nine of his children.