He is listed in Sands and McDougall as a meter assembler but at the time of his daughter's marriage his occupation was given as gate keeper. His wife was Mary Margaret nee Church.
Their daughter, Beverley Margaret was born about 1928. On 26th August 1952 at St Joseph's Port Melbourne she married William Richard Proud who was a member of the R.A.A.F. and stationed at Mallala, South Australia at that time.