In March, 1773, his first wife died after giving birth to a daughter named Anna.

In July, 1773, he married again, Honora Sneyd, and went to live in Ireland, taking with him his daughter Maria, who was then about six years old.

Two years afterwards she was sent from Ireland to a school at Derby.

In April, 1780, her father's second wife died, and advised him upon her death-bed to marry her sister Elizabeth.

He married his deceased wife's sister on the next following Christmas Day.