[1] He married Alice Harriott Smith on 20 September 1860 at Spring Grove (located between Brightwater and Wakefield), Waimea, New Zealand.
[2] Their son Bramston Hamilton Miles was born on 22 February 1863,[3] but his wife died three weeks later from childbirth complications on 14 March.
[5] The 1865 parliamentary session had already finished on 30 October,[6] and in early December, Miles addressed a public meeting reviewing his term as the electorate's representative, and saying goodbye to his constituents, as he planned to spend the next two years in England.
[8] Miles returned to New Zealand on the Electra, which arrived in Wellington on 22 October 1867,[9] and continued to Nelson on the Rangitoto.
[11] They had a son, Charles Henry Valentine Miles, the following year, but he died on 11 March 1874 aged 13 months; at the time, the family was living at Emerald Hill.