He arrived in Australia in 1865 on the Duncan Dunbar after being shipwrecked. In 1871 he married Kate Marion who had also been on the Duncan Dunbar and they had six daughters and two sons.
A castaway, he landed in Australia in 1865 on the Duncan Dunbar. Two years later, in 1871, he wedded Kate Marion, a fellow survivor of the Duncan Dunbar, with whom he had eight children.