In fact the family would remain Glasgow's southern suburbs, his by then widowed dying there in 1904. But 1886 had seen her son pack his bags for first Montreal in Canada, frequently a destination for crossing into the United States, which he did heading for Chicago and into the insurance business there, whilst turning out for the local Scottish football team, the Chicago Thistles. And in the Windy City he also married an English-girl, Grace Kemp. The wedding was in 1890. She was twenty-three, he by then twenty-eight and they would remain in America for two years until deciding in 1893 to return to settle first in Paisley, he working as an insurance agent for while. He would be there in 1901 but by 1911 be in Birmingham and an Insurance Company District Secretary. 

But then there is nothing. Absolutely nothing. There appear to have been no children. Of her we know that by 1939 she was in Kent, a widow living on private means, that she had stayed in Sevenoaks and that she died at the age of eighty-five in Croydon in Surrey in 1952. And there there is one oddity. When her passing was announced in the newspaper it was not in the southern counties but in Birmingham in the Evening Post.