 Mary Hannah died five months before Emma's birth, and Emma herself died in 1848.Douglas married Elizabeth Edmunds, a farmer's daughter from Bangor-is-y-Coed, Flintshire, on 25 January 1860 in St Dunawd's Church in the village, a church he was later to restore.Initially the couple lived over the office at 6 Abbey Square, and later they moved next door to No.