 Hawdon River and Lake Hawdon are named after him.He married in 1842 Emma (daughter of W. Outhwaite) who died in 1853.His eldest daughter Emma Josephine married Robert Campbell on 2 December 1868 in Christchurch, and his daughter Alice married Edward Wingfield Humphreys on 22 April 1869 at St John the Baptist Church in Christchurch.