sentences:  He married Frances (Fanny) Edwards around this time and left the quarry as they kept a shop together - although in practice it was she who understood business and kept the shop, so that he could devote time to matters of religion.Between 1850 and 1852 he was a joint owner of the Dorothea Quarry but this was not to his taste.He died on 16 August 1857 and was buried at the parish graveyard in Llanllyfni.