In 1874 he moved to San Francisco and worked as a marine engineer for Pacific Mail Steamship Company.

Migrating to South Australia in 1884, he continued his engineering work initially on the Hackney Bridge for the Road Board then with the Adelaide Steamship Company, but resigned in 1887 after labour troubles.

He subsequently became President of the United Trades and Labour Council of South Australia for a year from February 1889.

[6] Mary was the daughter of William Cooke of the Britannia Iron Works, Melbourne, and a well-known singer and widow of Fanny Simonsen's pianist Charles Bunbury Foster,[7] who may have died in Queensland in 1894, but details are elusive.

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