 He immigrated to Australia in 1888, where he bought a practice at Raymond Terrace in New South Wales.This practice was known as"The Bungalow", and had a doctors practice on the first level and his residence on the second.His fiancée, Harriett Eveline Waters of Kildare, arrived two years later, and they were married on the day she landed, 20 May 1890, in St Philip's Anglican Church, Sydney.