And in the meantime he had in 1912 won a single Scotland cap and in 1915 married Ethel Cotton, with whom he would have two, possibly three children. Moreover, on marriage the couple would move into that large house and, with Ethel the daughter of a wealthy, local mill-owner, who would become Chairman of the Rovers club, Wattie as the son-in-law would be given a job starting as a Cloth Salesman but on later inheriting the business, then stepping up to become managing director and dying, a wealthy man. That would be in 1966 at the age of seventy-nine albeit actually in hospital in Cheshire on the Wirral. He would then be cremated at Pleasington, outlived by Ethel by six years. Her passing would be in a nursing-home again on The Wirral in 1972.