While serving in Scotland he was said to have met Margaret Christie while watering his horse at a stream and that they eventually eloped; she with fifty spade guineas sewn into her corsets. On Christmas Day, 1826, they were married. [1]
George married a widow Foster of Downpatrick, who owned an hotel and two stage coaches and the story is that he was sent to prison for her former husband’s debts. He eventually went to Belfast where his son started a successful baking business which has only recently been taken over by a large combine. [2]
