 By the time he returned to Ireland, he had added another to his property, perhaps in an attempt to regain what he had lost in Ireland.After the death of his first wife, he returned home to find a new bride for his ten motherless children.On marrying the widowed Eliza Meredith, he waited until the summer of that year (1824) to return with his new wife and four of her children to his house and farm, 'Burtonville' (where the village of Sainte-Julienne, Quebec is found today), outside the village of Rawdon, Quebec, which was then a four-day journey north of Montreal.