He married Grace Taylor on 25 May 1868 at Horbury. They had 15 children:
Mary (b. 1869),
Margaret Daisy (b. 1870, an artist who painted part of the screen in Lew Trenchard Church),
Edward Sabine (b. 1871),
Beatrice Gracieuse (b. 1874, d. 1876, aged 2 years),
Veronica (b. 1875),
Julian (b. 1877),
William Drake (b. 1878),
Barbara (b. 1880),
Diana Amelia (b. 1881),
Felicitas (bpt 1883),
Henry (b. 1885),
Joan (b. 1887),
Cecily Sophia (b. 1889),
John Hillary (b. 1890),
Grace (b. 1891).