In October 1880 he married Rose Annie Aldridge, daughter of Adelaide hotelier George Aldridge; the couple settled in New St, Brighton, a suburb of Melbourne, where their only son was born on 8 July 1882.
In October 1880 he married Rose Annie Aldridge, daughter of Adelaide hotelier George Aldridge. The couple settled in Brighton, a suburb of Melbourne where their only son, christened George Percy Grainger, was born on 8 July 1882.