 Thomas the Elder's wife, Grace Lees (née Bateman), agreed to bring up young Thomas as her own.She was made godmother of Ada's nephew Frederick Geoffrey Lees Johnson (1880–1951), an arrangement that provided cover for Grace, Ada and Thomas the Elder to meet up regularly.Ada married Arthur John Coleridge Mackarness, a solicitor, (son of John Fielder Mackarness, Bishop of Oxford) in 1890.